Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies

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Contents: Series Editorsa (TM) Preface: Originary somatechnicity Introduction, Nikki Sullivan and Samantha Murray Section 1 The Somatechnics of the Social Body: 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 Kings 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. Section 2 Somatechnologies of Sex/Gender: 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. Section 3 Somatechnics of the Self: 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 Index.

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