ABSTRACT
The destabilisation of the subject of ‘Man’ noted in the Introduction to this volume suggests advantageous connections between Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSMM) and New Materialism/Posthumanism (NM/PH) and, in particular, useful connections between CSMM and feminist engagements with NM/PH. In previous works, I have considered how CSMM and feminist frameworks interact and what their relationship is and might be. These frameworks may entail differential responses to NM/PH. In this context, certain forms of NM/PH flatten ontology in ways that can be said to argue ‘Man’ out of the picture prematurely and in doing so generate a range of possible ethico-political implications which sit uneasily with CSMM’s emancipatory political agenda. While I have previously considered dissonance between CSMM and feminist scholarship as containing both problems and creative possibilities, the emergence of feminist NM/PH approaches raises further questions for the field of CSMM.
