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  1. Psychiatric Culture and Bodies of Resistance.Lisa Blackman - 2007 - Body and Society 13 (2):1-23.
    Psychiatric culture provides an important site for humanities scholars interested in the relationships between body, culture and identity. The problem raised in this article is how to ‘think’ the body as discursive, material and embodied without reinstating the notion that the discursive and material are two separate, preexisting entities that somehow ‘interact’. The focus of this article will be on the complex relational dynamics that exist between science and culture in the production of psychopathology. The discussion will centre on the (...)
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  • When Alcohol Acts: An Actor-Network Approach to Teenagers, Alcohol and Parties.Jakob Demant - 2009 - Body and Society 15 (1):25-46.
    Sociological studies into alcohol use seem to find it difficult to deal with the substance itself. Alcohol tends to be reduced to a symbol of a social process and in this way the sociological research loses sight of effects beyond the social. This article suggests a new theoretical approach to the study of alcohol and teenagers' (romantic) relationships, inspired by actor-network theory (ANT). The central feature of ANT is to search for relationships, or rather networks, between all things relevant to (...)
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  • Language Trails: ‘Lekker’ and Its Pleasures.Annemarie Mol - 2014 - Theory, Culture and Society 31 (2-3):93-119.
    This is an article about bodily pleasures, words and some of the relations between them. It is a turn in a conversation between the author and Marilyn Strathern. It talks theory, but not in general. Instead, this theory gets situated in traditions; specified; in relation to concerns; and exemplified with stories to do with the term lekker. This article is in English, but lekker is not an English term. It is Dutch. The stories come from long-term field work in various (...)
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  • Starting Over.Lisa Blackman - 2009 - Theory, Culture and Society 26 (1):134-143.
    This review article explores the politics of hope and optimism made possible by a re-thinking of touch as a movement towards the not-yet-known, embodied through an engagement with the improvisational character of Argentine tango. Tango discloses the relational and enactive qualities of corporeality, moving us to ask not what bodies are, but rather what can bodies do; what can bodies become? The article engages with the moves to a Spinozist conception of affect developed by Massumi and Deleuze and Guattari, to (...)
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  • Affect, Relationality and the `Problem of Personality'.Lisa Blackman - 2008 - Theory, Culture and Society 25 (1):23-47.
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  • Responding Bodies and Partial Affinities in Human–Animal Worlds.Vinciane Despret - 2013 - Theory, Culture and Society 30 (7-8):51-76.
    The aim of this paper is to explore the different manners in which scientists’ bodies are actively engaged when interacting with the animals they observe in the field. Bodies are multiple, as are the practices that involve them: sharing the same diet, feeling similar affects, acting the same, inhabiting the same world of perceptions, constructing empathic affinities, etc. Some scientists aim to embody the animals’ experiences. Some are willing to empathetically experience situations ‘from inside’, while others ‘undo and redo’ their (...)
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  • The Pleasure is Mine: The Changing Subject of Erotic Science.Laura Desmond - 2011 - Journal of Indian Philosophy 39 (1):15-39.
    Pleasure, the defining object of kāmaśāstric scholarship, is harmonious sensory experience, the product of a “good fit” between the self and the world. It comes about when one moves in a world of fitting sense objects, and one has made oneself fit to enter that world. The bulk of kāmaśāstric literature is devoted to developing, enhancing, and enacting specific bodily and sensory capabilities in order to maximize one’s ability to affect and be affected by the world. This article examines the (...)
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