Gender, Species and Race
Monstrous Imaginations at the End of Man
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6453578 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Scott W Schwartz (0000-0002-3837-9998, City College of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 262-283 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-02 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Somatechnics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2044-0138 • E-ISSN: 2044-0146 |
| Publisher | Edinburgh University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.3366/soma.2025.0463 |
| OpenAlex | W4411956872 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 24 |
This article analyses the past few centuries of vortical disintegration and reconstitution of Man as a biocultural identity in the EuroWest. I discuss the dangerous rigidity of Man alongside the violence of speciation, focusing on the co-construction of humanity, gender, and Blackness. I argue that Man is a failure – he breaks easy and is irreparable. I explore within, alongside the work of thinkers like Zakiyyah Iman Jackson, Monique Wittig, Calvin Warren, and Rosi Braidotti, how the fragility of Man is used as a counterpoint to the plasticity of Black(ened) bodies, which are exposed to seemingly endless permutations of exploitation. I conclude by mapping a corrosive temporal gyre of Man's dwindling ability to imagine beyond itself. This imagination-less entity, Man, is juxtaposed with the role of monsters as a disruptive species that offers socially unifying explanations for malevolence. Given the past few centuries of normalised genocide, Man has proved more dangerous than any dragons, goblins, and trolls
Aesthetics · Art · Race (biology · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History
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Epistemologies of the South
Monsters
Monsters of the Market
The Ahuman Manifesto
A Billion Black Anthropocenes or None
Habeas Viscus
Reconsidering Reparations
The Order of Things
(The promise of) Monstrous Kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference
Planetary activism at the end of the world
The Ceremony Must be Found
The singularity is near
Theorizing in a Void
Patriarchy from Margin to Center
Homo Narrans and the Science of the Word
Re-Enchantment Cosmologies
Becoming Human
Situated Knowledges
| Highly cited | No |
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