TY - BOOK AU - Murray,Samantha AU - Sullivan,Nikki TI - Somatechnics: queering the technologisation of bodies T2 - Queer interventions SN - 0754697851 AV - HM636 .S66 2009eb U1 - 306.4 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Farnham, UK PB - Ashgate KW - Human body KW - Social aspects KW - Corps humain KW - Aspect social KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE KW - Public Policy KW - Cultural Policy KW - bisacsh KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE KW - Anthropology KW - Cultural KW - Popular Culture KW - fast KW - Körper KW - gnd KW - Soziale Wahrnehmung KW - Lichamelijkheid KW - gtt KW - Kunst KW - Sociale aspecten KW - Kropp KW - teknik KW - kao KW - Sexualitet KW - genus KW - självuppfattning KW - Queerteori KW - Body KW - technology KW - kao//eng KW - Sexuality KW - gender KW - conception of self KW - Queer theory KW - Människokropen KW - sociala aspekter KW - sao KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=292742 ER -