Interpreting the Body

Interpreting the Body

Between Meaning and Matter

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Ch2. Thinking the Molecular

by Ben Spatz – This essay contests the assumed primacy of technoscientific and biochemical methods in determining what human and other bodies are made of. From a perspective grounded in critical race, cultural, and performance studies, as well as embodied artistic research, it offers an expanded molecular theory of identity that foregrounds the radical asymmetry …

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By Interpreting the Bodyupdated on October 15, 2022October 13, 2022

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Interpreting the Body: Between Meaning and Matter is part of the Interpretive Lenses in Sociology book series edited by Thomas DeGloma and Julie B. Wiest and published by Bristol University Press, who holds all, exclusive, or limited rights to volume content. For reuse, distribution, and other permissions questions, please contact the publisher.

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