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How Do We Do Biodeconstruction?
- Postmodern Culture
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 28, Number 3, May 2018
- 10.1353/pmc.2018.0021
- Article
- Additional Information
Abstract:
The word biodeconstruction asks us to consider what is appropriate to deconstruction as a practice and to reflect on the relationship between the discourse of biology and that practice. Within literary, philosophical, and cultural debate, deconstruction appears as a recognisable mode or style of analysis. However, what happens if we interrogate the radical interiority of textuality in terms of biology's rhetorical structures and logics or through scientific evidence and methodologies? If biology is routinely equated with origins, prescriptions, and first causes, can this classical narrative of temporal unfolding be shifted? Can biodeconstruction refigure the relation between the empirical and the conceptual?