Somatechnics : queering the technologisation of bodies /
Somatechnics : queering the technologisation of bodies /
edited by Nikki Sullivan, Samantha Murray.
- Farnham, UK : Ashgate, ©2009.
- 1 online resource (xiii, 249 pages).
- Queer interventions .
- Queer interventions. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Diseased states : the role of pathology in the (re)production of the body politic / Jessica Cadwallader -- Bodies politic? Public sculptures and the queering of national space in London's Trafalgar Square / Rosemary Betterton -- King's member, queen's body : transsexual surgery, self-demand amputation and the somatechnics of sovereign power / Susan Stryker and Nikki Sullivan -- Asian sex workers in Australia : somatechnologies of trafficking and queer mobilities / Audrey Yue -- Queering Spinoza's somatechnics : stem cells, strategic sacralisations and fantasies of care and kind / Robin Mackenzie -- Sexing the cherry : fixing masculinity / Marie Fox and Michael Thomson -- Speaking transsexuality in the cinematic tongue / Eliza Steinbock -- 'Banded bodies' : the somatechnics of gastric banding / Samantha Murray -- Queer monsters : technologies of self-transformation in Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis and Braidotti's Metamorphoses / Elizabeth Stephens -- A somatechnological paradigm : how do you make yourself a body without organs? / Matt Lodder -- Between the foot and the floor, dancing with Nietzsche and Klossoswki / Philipa Rothfield -- Queer substances and normative substantiations : of drugs, dogs and other piggy practices / Kane Race.
Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sôma and the techné of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us. The volume's contributions to the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Deluze and Guattari make it a must read for scholars of sociology, cultural and queer studies and philosophy.
0754697851 (electronic bk.) 9780754697855 (electronic bk.) 1282295128 9781282295124
229512 MIL
Human body--Social aspects.
Corps humain--Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Human body--Social aspects.
Körper
Soziale Wahrnehmung
Lichamelijkheid.
Kunst.
Sociale aspecten.
Kropp--teknik.
Sexualitet--genus--självuppfattning.
Queerteori.
Body--technology.
Sexuality--gender--conception of self.
Queer theory.
Människokropen--sociala aspekter.
Queerteori.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HM636 / .S66 2009eb
306.4
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Diseased states : the role of pathology in the (re)production of the body politic / Jessica Cadwallader -- Bodies politic? Public sculptures and the queering of national space in London's Trafalgar Square / Rosemary Betterton -- King's member, queen's body : transsexual surgery, self-demand amputation and the somatechnics of sovereign power / Susan Stryker and Nikki Sullivan -- Asian sex workers in Australia : somatechnologies of trafficking and queer mobilities / Audrey Yue -- Queering Spinoza's somatechnics : stem cells, strategic sacralisations and fantasies of care and kind / Robin Mackenzie -- Sexing the cherry : fixing masculinity / Marie Fox and Michael Thomson -- Speaking transsexuality in the cinematic tongue / Eliza Steinbock -- 'Banded bodies' : the somatechnics of gastric banding / Samantha Murray -- Queer monsters : technologies of self-transformation in Bulwer's Anthropometamorphosis and Braidotti's Metamorphoses / Elizabeth Stephens -- A somatechnological paradigm : how do you make yourself a body without organs? / Matt Lodder -- Between the foot and the floor, dancing with Nietzsche and Klossoswki / Philipa Rothfield -- Queer substances and normative substantiations : of drugs, dogs and other piggy practices / Kane Race.
Somatechnics highlights the reciprocal bond between the sôma and the techné of 'the body' and the techniques in which bodies are formed and transformed as crafted responses to the world around us. The volume's contributions to the work of Spinoza, Nietzsche, Merleau-Ponty, Deluze and Guattari make it a must read for scholars of sociology, cultural and queer studies and philosophy.
0754697851 (electronic bk.) 9780754697855 (electronic bk.) 1282295128 9781282295124
229512 MIL
Human body--Social aspects.
Corps humain--Aspect social.
POLITICAL SCIENCE--Public Policy--Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE--Popular Culture.
Human body--Social aspects.
Körper
Soziale Wahrnehmung
Lichamelijkheid.
Kunst.
Sociale aspecten.
Kropp--teknik.
Sexualitet--genus--självuppfattning.
Queerteori.
Body--technology.
Sexuality--gender--conception of self.
Queer theory.
Människokropen--sociala aspekter.
Queerteori.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HM636 / .S66 2009eb
306.4