Corporeality and culture: bodies in movement

For well over a decade the turn to the body has complicated any straightforward conception of social construction or biologism. The essays collected in Corporeality and Culture transform the fields of gender studies and cultural studies in surprising and astute ways. Focused on important ethical and political questions these essays will be highly valuable and fascinating reading for anyone interested in contemporary culture and the difficulties of thinking about the politics of embodiment.' Claire Colebrook, Penn State University, USA 'Corporeality and Culture is a next-generation volume in feminist theory and queer studies. The editors write how they have modestly witnessed the making of new materialisms in academia and art, and readers will find themselves in the position of the modest witness to a new twist in the turn towards post-humanist and affect theory, phenomenology and Deleuze Studies. The individual essays survey contemporary corporeality across theory and a multitude of artistic practices.' Iris van der Tuin, Utrecht University, The Netherlands 'Here a new generation of scholars address the motion, e-motion and sheer commotion of bodies in states of becoming and relation. Resisting any conception of "the body" as unity or totality, this collection constructs new cartographies emphasising difference, mutability, porosity and the undecidably in-between. This is adventurous, exploratory, experimental work, refusing to be bound to programs of any kind- this is thinking on the move towards unanticipated possibilities and unpredictable outcomes.

Section I. Movements of Violence and Corollaries of Sight: Conversing 'trina cheile' / Fiona Hanley, Tami Gadir and Irene Noy -- Moved to tears: performance, affect, becoming, emergency / Charlotte Farrell -- Mobilising affect: somatic empathy and the cinematic body in distress / Xavier Aldana Reyes -- Section II. Monsters, Margins and Corporealising Choreographies: Making monsters: bio-engineering and visual arts practice / Elizabeth Stephens -- The animated aesthetics of cultured steak / Rosemary Deller -- The animation of the cyborg trope: Oshii Mamoru's Ghost in the Shell / Sebastian Schmidt-Tomczak -- Embodied Platonisms: the erotic choreographies of Angela Carter and John Cameron Mitchell / Karin Sellberg -- Section III. Political Technologies of Embodiment: Fragments of a great confusion: abjection, subjectivity, and the body in Mary Borden's The Forbidden Zone / Jasie Stokes -- Sex in stasis, bodies in becoming: the monstrous body and the eroticisation of the scientific gaze / Ally Crockford -- Bodies in movement: on humanimality in narratives about the Third Reich / Peter Arnds -- Existence -- in itself: Emily Dickinson and the movement to absence in the poetic body / Dou…