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Open Future, Regaining Possibility
Feminist Phenomenology Futures (2017)
  • Helen A Fielding
Abstract

Helen Fielding considers how the repetition of the same can be phenomenally shifted. Considering the phenomenon of death by suicide in response to cyberbullying, she asks how cyberspace as a system can be opened up and become more responsive to the living affect of young women subjected to abuse. At the heart of this problem is the breakdown of personal time into objective time, whereby the inexhaustible potentiality of the living world is collapsed into the indifferent infinity of the possible that, unconnected to living existence, is ultimately a closed system.
Keywords
  • feminist phenomenology,
  • cyberbullying,
  • Rehtaeh Parsons,
  • temporality,
  • Amanda Todd,
  • Merleau-Ponty,
  • Arendt
Publication Date
2017
Editor
Helen A. Fielding and Dorothea E. Olkowski
Publisher
Indiana University Press
ISBN
978-0-253-02994-2
Citation Information
Helen A Fielding. "Open Future, Regaining Possibility" BloomingtonFeminist Phenomenology Futures (2017) p. 91 - 109
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/helen_fielding/32/