It is our great pleasure to share with you all the latest news: part 2 of the special issue of the journal Somatechnics (Edinburgh University Press), focused on  ‘Somatechnics of Violence: (Im)material, Affective, and Digital Transformations’ and co-edited by The Eco- and Bioart Lab team member Evelien Geerts (together with  Chantelle Gray and Delphi Carstens) has just been published!

Many of the contributions in this special issue tackle matters very central to our work at The Eco- and Bioart Lab. While Somatechnics is a subscription-based journal, several of the articles in the issue are available in OPEN ACCESS. Check them out!

[OA] Evelien Geerts, Chantelle Gray & Delphi Carstens: ‘The Somatechnics of Violence: (Im)material, Affective, and Digital Transformations. Editorial: Part Two’ https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0428

[OA] Nina Lykke: ‘The Emperor of All Maladies, the King of Terrors’: The Violent Somatechnics of Cancer’ https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0429  

Evelien Geerts & Delphi Carstens: ‘Mimetic Resentment’s Violent Somatechnics in Permacrisis Times: Critical Cartographical Contours and Coordinates’ https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0430

Sama Khosravi Ooryad: ‘Eerie Captures of Violence and Memetic Rhythmicality of Resistance during the ‘Woman, Life, Freedom’ Movement’ https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0431   

Alina Achenbach: ‘”The Body Carries the Border”– A Somatechnical Approach to Borderscape Violence’ https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0432

[OA] Marietta Radomska: ‘Mourning the More-Than-Human: Somatechnics of Environmental Violence, Ethical Imaginaries, and Arts of Eco-Grief’ https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0433