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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262358095
The relationship of the dead body with technology through history, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the death-prevention technologies of today. Death and the dead body have never been more alive in the public imagination—not least because of current debates over modern medical technology that is deployed, it seems, expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead. In this book, John Troyer examines the relationship of the dead body with technology, both material and conceptual: the physical machines, political concepts, and sovereign institutions that humans use to classify, organize, repurpose, and transform the human corpse. Doing so, he asks readers to think about death, dying, and dead bodies in radically different ways. Troyer explains, for example, how technologies of the nineteenth century including embalming and photography, created our image of a dead body as quasi-atemporal, existing outside biological limits formerly enforced by decomposition. He describes the “Happy Death Movement” of the 1970s; the politics of HIV/AIDS corpse and the productive potential of the dead body; the provocations of the Body Worlds exhibits and their use of preserved dead bodies; the black market in human body parts; and the transformation of historic technologies of the human corpse into “death prevention technologies.” The consequences of total control over death and the dead body, Troyer argues, are not liberation but the abandonment of Homo sapiens as a concept and a species. In this unique work, Troyer forces us to consider the increasing overlap between politics, dying, and the dead body in both general and specifically personal terms.
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0009
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0010
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262358095
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 31 March 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/11261.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262358095