After the body: Culture, Power, and Biopolitics

Author: Wang Min'an, Chen Yongguo
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Publish Date: 2004-08-01
Features: Since Nietzsche and Foucault, the body has increasingly become a focal point of contemporary theory, serving as a medium for inscribing historical traces, where culture, power, and politics engage in divergent disputes. The body is not merely a passive mechanism of inscription; at times, it becomes an active, explosive force. This duality creates a complex relationship between the body and the social context surrounding it. The essays collected in this book explore this relationship from various perspectives, reopening the secrets of the body through the arguments of figures such as Deleuze, Baudrillard, ?i?ek, Judith, Butler, and others. Moreover, Foucault's discourse, either explicitly or implicitly, permeates almost every essay.