Between the Fix and the Flesh
Imagining Racial Ontology Otherwise in the Wake of Biocapitalist Accumulation
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6453580 |
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| Authors | Nathan Leach (0000-0002-4074-5803, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 243-261 |
| 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.2025.0462 |
| OpenAlex | W4411956893 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
This paper examines how modern biomedical technologies and their entanglement with imperialism and the US opioid crisis transform the bodies of drug users into sites of primitive accumulation. Through reading a special issue of National Geographic reporting on a Department of Defense-funded face transplant, I conceptualize the history of organ donations, political and economic crisis, and the scholarship of bioeconomies, racial capitalism, and Black feminist critiques to substantiate my claims. I provide insight as to how the face transplant is part of an extensive history in which deviant bodies become folded into processes of racialisation and subsequently reconceptualised as a site of extraction. In the concluding section of this paper, I will consider in more detail how the somatechnics of the face transplant provide speculative inter-corporal (para)ontologies that reside along the aporia of the fix and the flesh
Art · Biology · Epistemology · Fishery · Flesh · Mechanics · Ontology · Physics · Wake · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · Organ Donation and Transplantation · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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