Bodies, Affects, Politics : The Clash of Bodily Regimes, Paperback / softback Book

Bodies, Affects, Politics : The Clash of Bodily Regimes Paperback / softback

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This book seeks to understand the coexistence of bodily regimes and the politics that emerge from the clash between them: Presents a novel conceptual model for understanding the relationship between bodies and affectsReworks Ranciere's notions of the distribution of the sensible and the aesthetic unconsciousEstablishes a dynamic and multiple understanding of the repressive, distributive and communicative unconscious by rethinking Freudian psychoanalysisUtilizes a variety of empirical materials, from Hollywood movies to Freud's case studiesSets its argument about politics within the context of significant social events to ensure its conceptual and empirical material is relevant to the contemporary political moment

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