Corporeal Matters
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Corporeal Matters

An Archive of Violence

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Corporeal Matters

An Archive of Violence

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Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As a progression in medical science, X-ray technology was fashioned to maintain and save life. However, as the contributors to this volume show, it has been a device of ruination as well. They visualise the traces and the pattern of violence, practised by the states, racial capitalism, colonial racism and sexism. By juxtaposing different cases across time and space, this collection demonstrates a set of relations between civilization and ruination.

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Year
2024
ISBN
9783839470480
Edition
1

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Content
  3. Wayward X-ray Photos
  4. The Racialized X-ray Code
  5. Moving Shades: X-ray Mobility in Southeast Asian Labour Migration
  6. Suspicious Bodies
  7. The Ancestral Document
  8. The Bloodiest Border. A Photo Essay
  9. In the Dermis of the Body
  10. A Scarf, a Sewage Pipe and a Settler: On Tactics, X-ray, and the Right to Opacity
  11. Silent Agony
  12. A Ray in Five Folds
  13. Deep Visions and Superficial Desires: X-rays as Science and Popular Culture
  14. Bothering the X-ray
  15. Listening to X-ray Images. A Family Album
  16. Contributors
  17. Acknowledgements
  18. Imprint