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Autoimmunities (Paperback)
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Autoimmunity refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism or body
mounts an immune response against its own tissues. As a medical
term, autoimmunity is today used to account for any instance in
which the body fails to recognise its own constituents as 'self',
an error that results in the paradoxical situation in which
self-defense (immunity, protection) manifests as self-harm
(pathology). As a result, the very possibility of autoimmunity
poses a problem for the notion of immunity and the concept of
identity that underpins it: if self-protection can just as readily
take the form of self-destruction, then it seems that the very
identity of the self, and thus the boundary between self and other,
is in question. Conceptually, autoimmunity thus challenges us to
think critically about the nature of any sovereign entity or
identity, be they human or nonhuman, cells, nations, or other forms
of community. This volume reflects and engages with different
disciplinary approaches to autoimmunity in the theoretical, medical
or posthumanities, social and political theory, and critical
science studies. It aims to provide a topical intervention within
the current discussion on biopolitical thought and critical
posthumanist futures. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Parallax.
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