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Thinking and Living Bioculturally: Some Comments on Samantha Frost's Biocultural Creatures
- Theory & Event
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 21, Number 2, April 2018
- pp. 539-548
- 10.1353/tae.2018.0028
- Article
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Abstract:
Here I elaborate the basis for what I see as two essential, though unstated, premises in Samantha Frost's Biocultural Creatures: first, all political theory is overdetermined by the conception of the human that informs it; and second, there are better and worse accounts of the nature of the human subject. I do so by working along two registers. What is the nature of biocultural creatures, and what are some of the political implications of this? and connected to that, the methodological question: How should we study biocultural creatures?