A Body's Time: Ontology, Biosociality, Power

A body has a history that constrains or conditions its future, that carries forward into the future the past's imprint. This paper addresses biocultural theories that highlight the temporality of a body and the significance of the fact that it becomes what it is over time. Samantha Frost's recent account of the biocultural status of the human sees the temporality of a body as key to understanding its present ontology or being. Frost can be productively read with other scholars who draw out how time provides a body's ontological contours in light of a body's interbeing with its environs.