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...

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Main Author: Apostolidou, Sofia (author)
Other Authors: Sturm, Jules (author)
Format: article
Language:eng
Published: 2016
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.17645/si.v4i4.705
Country:Portugal
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