Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect by Mel Y. Chen

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Mel Y. Chen

297 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy challenging informative reflective slow-paced

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In Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly, animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between t...

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