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BODIES AT LIBERTY IN KATHY ACKER’S DON QUIXOTE

BODIES AT LIBERTY IN KATHY ACKER’S DON QUIXOTE AbstractKathy Acker’s work has been praised for the way it highlights the transformative potential of the body in contact with the world. Often, however, such contact also reminds us of the danger involved in the use of the body to disrupt social convention. “Bodies at Liberty” mines this tension, considering Acker alongside three contemporary theorists – Michel Serres, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Mari Ruti – whose disparate theories of embodiment each offer accounts of exposure, vulnerability, and relation as strategies for envisioning human frailty as grounds for meaning-making in our lives. Read together, these texts become examples of the body’s ways of guiding our attention toward new paradigms for thriving and bonding in precarious times. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities Taylor & Francis

BODIES AT LIBERTY IN KATHY ACKER’S DON QUIXOTE

Finck, Shannon
Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities , Volume 22 (4): 17 – Oct 2, 2017
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BODIES AT LIBERTY IN KATHY ACKER’S DON QUIXOTE

Abstract

AbstractKathy Acker’s work has been praised for the way it highlights the transformative potential of the body in contact with the world. Often, however, such contact also reminds us of the danger involved in the use of the body to disrupt social convention. “Bodies at Liberty” mines this tension, considering Acker alongside three contemporary theorists – Michel Serres, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Mari Ruti – whose disparate theories of embodiment each offer accounts of...
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Taylor & Francis
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© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
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1469-2899
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0969-725X
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10.1080/0969725X.2017.1406049
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Abstract

AbstractKathy Acker’s work has been praised for the way it highlights the transformative potential of the body in contact with the world. Often, however, such contact also reminds us of the danger involved in the use of the body to disrupt social convention. “Bodies at Liberty” mines this tension, considering Acker alongside three contemporary theorists – Michel Serres, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Mari Ruti – whose disparate theories of embodiment each offer accounts of exposure, vulnerability, and relation as strategies for envisioning human frailty as grounds for meaning-making in our lives. Read together, these texts become examples of the body’s ways of guiding our attention toward new paradigms for thriving and bonding in precarious times.

Journal

Angelaki: Journal of Theoretical Humanities – Taylor & Francis

Published: Oct 2, 2017

Keywords: Kathy Acker; Michel Serres; Jean-Luc Nancy; Mari Ruti; Don Quixote; embodiment

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