(Ebook) Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies (Queer Interventions) by Samantha Murray, Nikki Sullivan ISBN 9780754675303, 9780754697855, 0754675300, 0754697851

(Ebook) Somatechnics: Queering the Technologisation of Bodies (Queer Interventions) by Samantha Murray, Nikki Sullivan ISBN 9780754675303, 9780754697855, 0754675300, 0754697851

Contents: Series Editors' 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