Glick Megan H. Glick

Infrahumanisms (eBook, PDF)

Science, Culture, and the Making of Modern Non/personhood

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Produktbeschreibung

In Infrahumanisms Megan H. Glick considers how conversations surrounding nonhuman life have impacted a broad range of attitudes toward forms of human difference such as race, sexuality, and health. She examines the history of human and nonhuman subjectivity as told through twentieth-century scientific and cultural discourses that include pediatrics, primatology, eugenics, exobiology, and obesity research. Outlining how the category of the human is continuously redefined in relation to the infrahuman-a liminal position of speciation existing between the human and the nonhuman-Glick reads a number of phenomena, from early twentieth-century efforts to define children and higher order primates as liminally human and the postwar cultural fascination with extraterrestrial life to anxieties over AIDS, SARS, and other cross-species diseases. In these cases the efforts to define a universal humanity create the means with which to reinforce notions of human difference and maintain human-nonhuman hierarchies. In foregrounding how evolving definitions of the human reflect shifting attitudes about social inequality, Glick shows how the consideration of nonhuman subjectivities demands a rethinking of long-held truths about biological meaning and difference.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478002598
• Artikelnr.: 56244767

Autorenporträt

Megan H. Glick is Assistant Professor of American Studies at Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction: Toward a Theory of Infrahumanity  1
Part I. Bioexpansionism, 1900s-1930s
1. Brief Histories of Time: Nature, Culture, and the Making of Modern
Childhood  29
2. Ocular Anthropomorphisms:Eugenics and Primatology at the Threshold of
the "Almost Human"  56
Part II. Extraterrestriality, 1940s-1970s
3. On Alien Ground: Extraterrestrial Sightings, Atomic Warfare, and the
Undoing of the Human Body  85
4. Inner and Outer Spaces: Exobiology, Human Genetics, and the
Disembodiment of Corporeal Difference  110
Part III. Interiority, 1980s-2010s
5. Of Sodomy and Cannibalism: Disgust, Dehumanization, and the Rhetorics of
Same-Sex and Cross-Species Contagion  139
6. Everything except the Squeal: Porcine Hybridity in the Obesity Epidemic
and Xenotransplantation Research  159
Conclusion. The Plurality Is Near: Techniques of Symbiotic Re-speciation 
196
Notes  209
Bibliography  247
Index  263