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Dissident gut : technologies of regularity, politics of revolt / Jean Walton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walton, Jean, 1957- author.
- Series:
- Gender and the body in literature and culture.
- Gender and the body in literature and culture
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Metabolism--Philosophy.
- Metabolism.
- Sociology, Urban--Philosophy.
- Sociology, Urban.
- Capitalism--Philosophy.
- Capitalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- This volume draws on theories of Marxism, feminism and the biopolitics of affect to investigate the psycho-dynamic properties of the modern peristaltic system.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Series Preface
- Introduction: The Biopolitics of Metabolic Disturbance
- Part I: Macro-Peristalsis
- 1 Metabolic Rift and the Remedy of Faecal Recycling
- 2 Faecal Habitus
- 3 Marx’s Regulation of Metabolism
- 4 The Second Brain
- Part II: Micro-Peristalsis
- 5 Unkinking, Streamlining and the Household Engineer
- 6 The Peristaltic Desiring- Machine of Miss Louise
- 7 The Creative Devolution of Reverse Peristalsis
- 8 Peristaltic Politics of a Suffragette
- Conclusion: Faecal Biopolitics in the Twenty- First Century
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on April 7, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-3995-3294-4
- OCLC:
- 1436432942
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