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The fundamental assumption behind the volume is that the current civilizational crisis, manifested in such phenomena as climate change, environmental catastrophes, pandemics and wars, puts into question the biopolitical means of optimizing the life of populations and individuals. To narrow down the thematic concerns of the volume, the chapters are centered around the notion of body, fundamental for the majority of theoretical takes on biopolitics. The volume shows that in the current age of catastrophes bodies are not only shaped and individualized through procedures of institutionalized discipline, but by an entanglement of environmental and planetary factors, typically omitted in extant accounts of biopolitics. The chapters go beyond biopolitics, because they show bodies as sites of operation of non-human or more-than-human agencies that work on scales inaccessible to human sensorium.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Mateusz Borowski / Malgorzata Sugiera: Introduction: More-Than-Human Bodies in Times of Polycrises
- Body
- Section I: Futurities of Entanglements
- Mateusz Borowski: Survival through Entanglement: Alter(ed) Bodies, Earthly Forces and Geologic Subjects in N. K. Jemisin’s Broken Earth Trilogy (2015–2017)
- Mateusz Chaberski: Alter(ed) Species: Human–Neanderthal Kinships Across Deep Time
- Sylwia Mieczkowska: Plastic as a New Material Force: On Plastic–Body Entanglements and Their Possible Future Coexistence
- Malgorzata Sugiera: Haunted by Master Narratives: Terraformings and Other Worlds Worth Making
- Section II: Body(ing) Politics
- Arkadiusz Póltorak: “Unsettled Bodies of Knowledge:” Biopolitical Capture of the Participatory Museum in Marysia Lewandowska and Neil Cummings' Museum Futures
- Wojciech Baluch: Subversive Bodies in Theatre
- Lucja Iwanczewska: Postpornographic Bodily Practices in Contemporary Visual and Literary Arts
- Section III: (Dis)Integrating Bodies
- Ewa Bal: Reconnecting (De)Fragmented Bodies: Decolonising Practices of Ethnic Minorities in Central Eastern Europe
- Filip Ryba: A Monster's Promise, a Terrorist's Promise: About a Certain Body from Baghdad and Biopolitical Attempts to Identify It
- Piotr Urbanowicz: Flying Cows, Frozen Alive Mammoths, and Other Indeterminate Bodies: On the Politics Beyond Biopower in Disaster Movies
- Martyna Dziadek: Plant Hybrids: Beyond More-Than-Human Biopolitics
- Notes on Contributors
- Index