By Judith Halberstam, Ira Livingston
"Its sheer breadth of scope makes it not like the standard - technology, know-how, and society - texts, and its rigorous insistence at the transformative and creative potentials of those applied sciences distances it from the denunciatory, technophobic texts that muddle educational bookshelves. considering the fact that either 'the physique' and 'technoscience' are such powerful websites of modern educational research, "Posthuman our bodies' will doubtless draw a large readership from the ranks of literary critics, movie students, technological know-how experiences students and the transforming into legion of 'literature and technology' researchers. it's going to be one of the necessities in a posthumanist toolbox."- Richard Doyle. ""Posthuman our bodies" is a speculative, or a performative, collection...[its] significance lies in its supplying a singularly discriminating and singularly artistic engagement with the innovative venture that Foucault, Deleuze, Guattari, and Haraway were one of the first to foster."- James Faubion. "Posthuman our bodies" engages in an important interdisciplinary research of the rising political applied sciences of the physique within the wake of postmodernity-technologies obvious in fil, medication, leisure industries, politics, and the humanities. This interdisciplinary assortment displays the growing to be problem with new interfaces among people and machine and bio-medical applied sciences, supplying a robust feel of the funamental adjustments underway that may noticeably regulate the event of our personal and others'bodies. automated teller machines, castrati, lesbians and different queers, individuals with AIDS, individuals with a number of character problems, the Alien and the Terminator: they perform the profound technological, representational, sexual, and theoretical alterations within which our bodies are implicated. The members are Kathy Acker, Alexandra Chasin, Camilla Griggers, Judith Halberstam, Kelly Hurley, Ira Livingston, Carol Mason, Paula Rabinowitz, Roddey Reid, Steven Shaviro, Susan Squier, Allucquere Rosanne Stone, Jennifer Terry, and Eric White.
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