Being Cellular
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3640494 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jayna Brown (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2-3 |
| Pages | 321-341 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | GLQ A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1064-2684 • E-ISSN: 1527-9375 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10642684-2843371 |
| OpenAlex | W1751294791 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 5 |
Taking suggestion from the case of Henrietta Lacks and the HeLa cells, this essay is profoundly interested in the possibilities for new, and alternative, forms of life and being. What forms of sociality and the communal are available for us if we estrange ourselves from the life of our species? And how might these practices of estrangement-queering-actually allow for a new ethical landscape? The essay explores the politics of science in relation to race and sex in historical context. Fantasies about the plasticity of life in speculative thought must consider the histories of social and scientific racism and eugenics. The essay considers two scientific speculators, H. G. Wells and Julian Huxley, whose works demonstrate risks that we must be mindful of in embracing an ontology of life. There are ramifications of self-directed scientific modification of the biological, as Wells's and Huxley's ideas include advanced ideas of the plasticity of life but also the theory and practice of eugenics. The essay still argues for the importance of the utopian, of dreams that reach to new paradigms, that search out the ineffable moments of life that confound us
Biology · Context (archaeology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Eugenics · Ontology · Political science · Race (biology · Relation (database · Sociality · Sociology · Transhumanism · Gender Studies · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Law · Medical History and Research · Philosophy · Ecology
Anti-racism, racism, and the microbiome
Naturliggør forandring
Trans* Plasticity and the Ontology of Race and Species
The Reeducation of Race
Unburdening Liveness
Losing Manhood
Choosing Threat, Embodying the Viral
The monstrous-feminine, the colonial body, and Dr. Moreau
Queer, plastic residues
Metamorphosis, Transition, and Insect Biology in the Octavia E. Butler Archive
Queer techno-orientalism as method
Misanthropic Camp; or, What's So Queer About Misanthropy
Implanting Plasticity Into Sex and Trans/Gender
Neko Case and the Molecular Turn
(Im)possible Futures
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |