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The Somatechnics of Life and Death - Towards a New Feminist Biopolitics (Hardcover)
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The Somatechnics of Life and Death - Towards a New Feminist Biopolitics (Hardcover)
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What is 'life' and how do we define its boundaries? Is life
immeasurable or are there levels of 'liveliness'? How should we
relate to entities that are not technically alive at all? As the
world becomes increasingly technologized, questions about what
counts as 'life' and 'living' have become a key field of inquiry in
contemporary philosophical and arts discourse. As Mel Chen
acknowledges in Animacies (2012), the "continued rethinking of life
and death's proper boundaries" has increasingly been recognized as
a priority in twenty-first-century North American, European and
Australasian critical theory. Indeed, the contributors of this
volume go as far as to argue that the question of life has become
the central problematic of recent feminist biopolitics, alongside
discussions of scientific ethics and technological/organic power
relationships. This volume explores points of intersection and
divergence between critical conceptions of time and technology,
drawing on a range of perspectives and approaches to examine our
mediated and material embodied entanglements with key questions
about life and death. It is a significant new contribution to the
study of corporeality in gender studies and feminism, and will be
of interest to academics, researchers and advanced students of
philosophy, gender studies, literary theory, and politics. It was
originally published as a special issue of Australian Feminist
Studies.
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