Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology
This thesis deploys the popular culture figure, the zombie, as a metaphor to examine the intersection of biotechnology and the production of knowledge about the body. Through reference to the HeLa cell line and BioArt project The Anarchy Cell Line, I show how the zombie metaphor helps to analyse an...
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Curtin University
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| author | Verspaget, Cynthia J. |
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| description | This thesis deploys the popular culture figure, the zombie, as a metaphor to examine the intersection of biotechnology and the production of knowledge about the body. Through reference to the HeLa cell line and BioArt project The Anarchy Cell Line, I show how the zombie metaphor helps to analyse and potentially undo Biology’s inflexible binary classification system, allowing a more inclusive and less reductive reading of those who are subject to Biology's system of knowledge. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-19942017-02-20T06:39:15Z Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology Verspaget, Cynthia J. This thesis deploys the popular culture figure, the zombie, as a metaphor to examine the intersection of biotechnology and the production of knowledge about the body. Through reference to the HeLa cell line and BioArt project The Anarchy Cell Line, I show how the zombie metaphor helps to analyse and potentially undo Biology’s inflexible binary classification system, allowing a more inclusive and less reductive reading of those who are subject to Biology's system of knowledge. 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1994 en Curtin University fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Verspaget, Cynthia J. Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology |
| title | Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology |
| title_full | Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology |
| title_fullStr | Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology |
| title_full_unstemmed | Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology |
| title_short | Unruly Bodies: Monstrous Readings of Biotechnology |
| title_sort | unruly bodies: monstrous readings of biotechnology |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1994 |