Alter(ed) Bodies

Beyond Biopolitics

Contributions by Mateusz Chaberski Contributions by Arkadiusz Półtorak Contributions by Łucja Iwanczewska Contributions by Wojciech Baluch Contributions by Ewa Bal Contributions by Piotr Urbanowicz Contributions by Filip Ryba Contributions by Sylwia Mieczkowska Contributions by Martyna Dziadek Edited by Mateusz Borowski Edited by Małgorzata Sugiera

Book cover: Alter(ed) Bodies

Extent: 238 pages

Publisher: V&R unipress

Subjects: Cultural Studies, Gender & Sexuality, Philosophy

Series: TRANSitions

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(July 2025)

ISBN: 9783847118848

6.34 x 9.33 inches

Price: $69.00

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The volume revisits the basic tenets of biopolitics in the context of the global catastrophes in the 21st century through the lens of speculative fabulations about the way human and more-than-human bodies are shaped by an entanglement of environmental and planetary factors.

The fundamental assumption behind the volume is that the current civilizational crisis, manifested in such phenomena as climate change, environmental catastrophes, pandemics and wars, puts into question the biopolitical means of optimizing the life of populations and individuals. To narrow down the thematic concerns of the volume, the chapters are centered around the notion of body, fundamental for the majority of theoretical takes on biopolitics. The volume shows that in the current age of catastrophes bodies are not only shaped and individualized through procedures of institutionalized discipline, but by an entanglement of environmental and planetary factors, typically omitted in extant accounts of biopolitics. The chapters go beyond biopolitics, because they show bodies as sites of operation of non-human or more-than-human agencies that work on scales inaccessible to human sensorium.

  • Contributions by Mateusz Chaberski
  • Contributions by Arkadiusz Półtorak
  • Contributions by Łucja Iwanczewska
  • Contributions by Wojciech Baluch
  • Contributions by Ewa Bal
  • Contributions by Piotr Urbanowicz
  • Contributions by Filip Ryba
  • Contributions by Sylwia Mieczkowska
  • Contributions by Martyna Dziadek
  • Edited by Mateusz Borowski
  • Edited by Małgorzata Sugiera

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