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Weighing Posthumanism: Fatness and Contested Humanity

"Our project on fatness begins by turning attention to the multiple cultural instances in which fatness has been intrinsically linked with notions such as self - neglect and poor self - management. In Foucauldian terms, we analyse the fat subject as a failed homo economicus, an individual who has failed to be an 'entrepreneur of himself, being for himself his own capital, being for himself his own producer, being for himself the source of [his] earnings' (Foucault, 2008, p. 226). From this perspective, we analyse instances of collective hatred towards fat subjects as direct results of the biopolitical triplet of responsibility, rationality, and morality. Morality is our bridge into the field of posthumanism, in which, as we demonstrate, these biopolitical imperatives also apply, reinforced by the field's fascination with prosthetics and enhancement. Where, by biopolitical standards, fat subjects have failed to manage themselves, posthuman subjects find themselves guilty of not responsibly, rationally, and morally manipulating themselves to optimal productivity. Using criticism that disability studies scholars like Sarah S. Jain and Vivian Sobchack have voiced about posthumanism, we demonstrate the ways in which, within posthumanism, all subjects can be found as lacking when compared to their potential, enhanced post­human version." (author's abstract)

Weighing Posthumanism: Fatness and Contested Humanity

Urheber*in: Apostolidou, Sofia; Sturm, Jules

Attribution 4.0 International

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ISSN
2183-2803
Extent
Seite(n): 150-159
Language
Englisch
Notes
Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)

Bibliographic citation
Social Inclusion, 4(4)

Subject
Philosophie
Soziologie, Anthropologie
Philosophie, Theologie
Kultursoziologie, Kunstsoziologie, Literatursoziologie
Übergewicht
Stereotyp
Selbstverantwortung
Gesundheitsverhalten
Selbstbild
Moral
Körperbild
kulturelle Faktoren
Marginalität
Behinderung
Diskurs
Bioethik

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Apostolidou, Sofia
Sturm, Jules
Event
Veröffentlichung
(when)
2016

DOI
Rights
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  • Zeitschriftenartikel

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  • Apostolidou, Sofia
  • Sturm, Jules

Time of origin

  • 2016

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