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The Gaze of the X-Ray: An Archive of Violence (Corporeal Matters) - Softcover

Shahram Khosravi

 
9783837670486: The Gaze of the X-Ray: An Archive of Violence (Corporeal Matters)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3837670481 ISBN 13: 9783837670486
Verlag: transcript, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As a progression in medical science, X-ray technology was fashioned to maintain and save life. However, as the contributors to this volume show, it has been a device of ruination as well. They visualise the traces and the pattern of violence, practised by the states, racial capitalism, colonial racism and sexism. By juxtaposing different cases across time and space, this collection demonstrates a set of relations between civilization and ruination.

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Shahram Khosravi is a professor of anthropology at Stockholm University. His research interests include the anthropology of Iran, forced displacement, border studies, and temporality. He has been an active writer in the international press. He is a co-founder of Critical Border Studies, a network for scholars, artists and activists to interact.

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Since its invention in the late nineteenth century, the penetrating gaze of the X-ray has changed our vision of the inside of the human body. After we started to see inside ourselves, the relationship between ourselves and our bodies changed forever. As a progression in medical science, X-ray technology was fashioned to maintain and save life. However, as the contributors to this volume show, it has been a device of ruination as well. They visualise the traces and the pattern of violence, practised by the states, racial capitalism, colonial racism and sexism. By juxtaposing different cases across time and space, this collection demonstrates a set of relations between civilization and ruination.

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Verlag
transcript
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3837670481
ISBN 13 
9783837670486
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Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
194
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