Disembodiment : corporeal politics of radical refusal / Banu Bargu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bargu, Banu, author.

Series:

Heretical thought.

Oxford scholarship online.

Heretical thought

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil disobedience.

Suicide--Political aspects.

Suicide.

Hunger strikes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2024]

Summary:

'Disembodiment' examines self-destruction, self-injury, and radical self-endangerment as unconventional performances of refusal that are erased, marginalized, and distorted by metanarratives of history as progress and agency as freedom.

Contents:

Cover

Series

Disembodiment

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Series Editor's Foreword

Introduction

I. Why Did Bouazizi Kill Himself?

II. The Other Bouazizis of Our Times: Disembodiment and Dignity

III. Suicide and the Modern Subject

IV. On "Futures Pitilessly Blocked and Passions Violently Choked": A Political History of Disembodiment

V. From the Maze to Guantánamo: The Violent Unmaking of the Modern Subject

VI. Corporeal Critique: The Undomesticable and Expressive Agency

VII. Throwaway Bodies: Gestures of Refusal from the Global South

VIII. The Body Anterior: Toward a Materialism of Corporeal Agency

IX. Parrhesia of the Powerless

Conclusion: The Corporeal Repertoire of the Oppressed

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 1, 2024).

ISBN:

0-19-760856-6

0-19-760854-X

0-19-760855-8

OCLC:

1450557787