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Can feminist theory work with the ancient ideal of disembodiment? How can disembodiment become a beneficial notion for contemporary feminisms? In Feminist Theory of Disembodiment, Panayotov makes the case for a specific, yet normative feminist framework for understanding the notion and practices of disembodiment from a distinctly feminist realist framework within the continental tradition. By drawing a fundamental distinction between literary and literal disembodiment and by conceptualizing “disembodying technologies,” the author demonstrates how, in today’s posthumanist momentum, the realness of literal disembodiment is avoided to the detriment of progressive critical thought and action, and that such avoidance only delegitimizes the stakes of feminist reason and action. This book blasts open the feminist anti-realist consensus, depriving feminist theory of its capability to play with what it forbade itself to think: the vista of immortality.
Stanimir Panayotov is postdoctoral fellow at the Department of Logic, Ethics, and Aesthetics at Sofia University, and lecturer at the Department of Sociology and Human Sciences at University of Plovdiv. Previously, he was research fellow at the Department of Literary Theory, Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (2024-2026); taught philosophy and cultural studies (Tyumen, 2021–2023); was a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in Sofia (2020–2021); and taught various courses in the humanities in Budapest, Jerusalem, Skopje, and Sofia (2011–2020). Feminist Theory of Disembodiment is his first monograph. His most recent publications are as co-editor of Soul, Body, and Gender in Late Antiquity (2024), Black Metal Rainbows (2023), and as editor of O-Zone: An Ecology of Objects (forthcoming).
Acknowledgments; Introduction: Metaphysics in Feminist Reverse; Chapter 1: Preliminary Philosophical Materials: Disembodiment and/in Continental Philosophy; Chapter 2: Antirealist Embodiment vs. Realist Disembodiment: Continental Feminism’s Real; Chapter 3: Feminist Theory of Disembodiment; Chapter 4: Literally Disembodied: Nuclear Holocaust and Solar Death; Conclusion: Misembodied: A Gendered Immortality; References; Index.