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Deviant Matter

Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

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Deviant Matter

Ferment, Intoxicants, Jelly, Rot

By: Kyla Wazana Tompkins

A deeply historicized engagement with the new materialism, and a reading of the aesthetics of state biopower in the context of the rise of microbiology, Deviant Matter looks at the history of food, science, medicine and intoxication to explain how particular kinds of matter, including jelly, rot, intoxicants, and ferment, became figures for deviant life as new sciences of hygiene and energy management became tools of state power"--

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NYU Press

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1479819220

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9781479819225

Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition

The Democratic Republic of Capitalism

By: Adam Lynes,James Treadwell,Kyla Bavin

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Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition

The Democratic Republic of Capitalism

By: Adam Lynes,James Treadwell,Kyla Bavin

The ultimate expression of power is the ability to act beyond the confines of law, with contemporary society enabling elite groups to wield “panoramic power”. From the murderous crimes of the corporate giants that provide us with life’s luxuries and necessities to the data gathering activities of media and educational institutions, the authors offer new thinking on damaging structures of power and privilege. This accessible book provides a comprehensive understanding of elite corporate wrongdoing, and the late capitalist society that enables harm, considering both how we got into this mess and how we get out of it.

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253

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Policy Press

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152922831X

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9781529228311

The Biopolitics of Feeling

Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

By: Kyla Schuller

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The Biopolitics of Feeling

Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century

By: Kyla Schuller

In The Biopolitics of Feeling Kyla Schuller unearths the forgotten, multiethnic sciences of impressibility—the capacity to be transformed by one's environment and experiences—to uncover how biopower developed in the United States. Schuller challenges prevalent interpretations of biopower and literary cultures to reveal how biopower emerged within the discourses and practices of sentimentalism. Through analyses of evolutionary theories, gynecological sciences, abolitionist poetry and other literary texts, feminist tracts, child welfare reforms, and black uplift movements, Schuller excavates a vast apparatus that regulated the capacity of sensory and emotional feeling in an attempt to shape the evolution of the national population. Her historical and theoretical work exposes the overlooked role of sex difference in population management and the optimization of life, illuminating how models of binary sex function as one of the key mechanisms of racializing power. Schuller thereby overturns long-accepted frameworks of the nature of race and sex difference, offers key corrective insights to modern debates surrounding the equation of racism with determinism and the liberatory potential of ideas about the plasticity of the body, and reframes contemporary notions of sentiment, affect, sexuality, evolution, and heredity.

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Duke University Press

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0822372355

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9780822372356

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Deviant Matter

Deviant Matter

Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition

Crimes of the Powerful and the Contemporary Condition

The Biopolitics of Feeling

The Biopolitics of Feeling

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