EAN: 9783825368609

MATERIAL BODIES - RÜDIGER KUNOW GEBUNDEN

'Material Bodies' is a book about the multiple connections  exchanges  interfaces  between
biology and culture. It explores how Americans  past and present  have been empowered or
constrained by biological factors (real or imagined)  how the biology of human life has been
holding a special place within US culture  organizing people's praxis  and at the same time
also their desires and fears. Positioned at the intersection of somatic and semantic systems 
this volume seeks to bring the resources of materialist cultural critique to an exploration of
various material arenas of human life  ranging from the public life of public diseases  the
cultural grammars of the human body in genetics  in age and disability  all the way to the
tensions between suffering and (its) representations in the available cultural archives. In the
arguments presented here  human life and particularly the human body manifest themselves as an
endowment  even a resource  but also as sites of questioning  of reflexivity  even of
limitation  sites which mark the involuntary dimension of human existence as they impose
inexorable limits on individual or collective hopes and projects.

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