Opening up Bodies for Harvest

Embodiment and Global Capitalism

Dados Bibliográficos

ID15030905
AutoresFlorentina C Andreescu (autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume21
Fascículo2
Páginas411-433
Data de publicação2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoTheory & Event (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1092-311X • E-ISSN: 2572-6633
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/tae.2018.0019
OpenAlexW2801869171
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas21

This article explores the ways in which global capitalism, enabled by developments in transplantation technology, cuts into human flesh, leading to reimagining bodies as complex assemblages of various replaceable parts. It traces the extent to which, the ontos of the human vanishes into this fragmented flesh, that manifests an existence which is no longer tied to the presence of the human body. It further reads the fictive kinship narratives, weaved between donors and receivers, as social responses aimed at suturing the traumatic ruptures of our embodied reality and at accepting the disconcerting hybrid body as one's own

Capitalism · Political science · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues · Health, Medicine and Society · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Law