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Against Hybridity - Social Impasses in a Globalizing World (Paperback)
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Against Hybridity - Social Impasses in a Globalizing World (Paperback)
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One of the major characteristics of our contemporary culture is a
positive, almost banal, view of the transgression and disruption of
cultural boundaries. Strangers, migrants and nomads are celebrated
in our postmodern world of hybrids and cyborgs. But we pay a price
for this celebration of hybridity: the non-hybrid figures in our
societies are ignored, rejected, silenced or exterminated. This
book tells the story of these non-hybrid figures D the anti-heroes
of our pop culture. The main example of non-hybrids in an otherwise
hybridized world is that of deep old age. Hazan shows how we
fervently distance ourselves from old age by grading and sequencing
it into stages such as the third age , the fourth age and so on.
Aging bodies are manipulated through anti-aging techniques until it
is no longer possible to do it anymore, at which point they become
un-transformable and non-marketable objects and hence commercially
and socially invisible or masked. Other examples are used to
elucidate the same cultural logic of the non-hybrid: pain, the
Holocaust, autism, fundamentalism and corporeal death. On the face
of it, these examples may seem to have nothing in common, but they
all exemplify the same cultural logic of the non-hybrid and provoke
similar reactions of criticism, terror, abhorrence and moral
indignation. This highly original and iconoclastic book offers a
fresh critique of contemporary Western culture by focusing on that
which is perceived as its other D the non-hybrid in our midst,
often rejected, ignored or silenced and deemed to be in need of
globally manageable correction.
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