Infrahumanisms : science, culture, and the making of modern non/personhood
Megan H. Glick
Bok · Engelsk · 2018
| Omfang | XI, 271 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: toward a theory of infrahumanity -- Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s -- Brief histories of time: nature, culture, and the making of modern childhood -- Ocular anthropomorphisms: eugenics and primatology at the threshold of the "almost human" -- Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s -- On alien ground: extraterrestrial sightings, atomic warfare, and the undoing of the human body -- Inner and outer spaces: exobiology, human genetics, and the disembodiment of corporeal difference -- Interiority, 1980s-2010s -- Of sodomy and cannibalism: disgust, dehumanization, and the rhetorics of same-sex and cross-species contagion -- Everything except the squeal: porcine hybridity in the obesity epidemic and xenotransplantation research -- Conclusion. the plurality is near: techniques of symbiotic re-speciation
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| ISBN | 9781478001164. - 9781478001515
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