Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect

Notes

Draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives.

Artist / Author	Mel Y. Chen
Publisher	Duke University Press Books
ISBN	978-0822352723
Reference	P3760
Date	2012
Type	Publication

Keywords

ability agency animacy animal animal rights Asian American awareness biosecurity criticism dead disability environment environmental illness film health human language life linguistics liveness living mobility people of colour queer queerness race sentience sexuality theory toxicity visual art

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