Habeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the "bare life and biopolitics discourse" exemplified by the works of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.
發表於2024-12-23
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圖書標籤: sex race gender body biopolitics 政治 poco Sociology
how race is before human
評分期末推薦三本書,Tim Morton's Humankind, Eric Santner's The Weight of All Flesh, Alex Weheliye's Habeas Viscus。Morton搞ooo的,Santner弄political theology/economy, Weheliye做race,但三本書都有類似的核心概念:the flesh(Morton用的是X-existence),我教課assign瞭Morton的hyperobjects,備課的時候把Humankind給看瞭,學生寫書評把Santner和Weheliye牽瞭齣來,算是開始把握這個潛在的flesh幫,雖然這幾個人好像不太對話。
評分how race is before human
評分期末推薦三本書,Tim Morton's Humankind, Eric Santner's The Weight of All Flesh, Alex Weheliye's Habeas Viscus。Morton搞ooo的,Santner弄political theology/economy, Weheliye做race,但三本書都有類似的核心概念:the flesh(Morton用的是X-existence),我教課assign瞭Morton的hyperobjects,備課的時候把Humankind給看瞭,學生寫書評把Santner和Weheliye牽瞭齣來,算是開始把握這個潛在的flesh幫,雖然這幾個人好像不太對話。
評分how race is before human
Habeas Viscus 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載