Philosophy of Means: Toward a New Politics of Bodies

Not mere biological entities, bodies are conceptual and political battlegrounds, either instruments of domination or avenues of liberation. Throughout history and across cultures, bodies have been used to express social, racial, class, and gender differences. They have also been imagined as means: means for reproducing life and labor, means understood to be inscribed within a “natural” order. This concept has run through the entire history of Western metaphysics and culture, and its persist...