THE SUBJECT OF THE PLAGUE.
This essay brackets the history of the modern subject between the moment of its formation in the seventeenth century and that of its postmodern demise in the latter part of the century just past. These brackets also mark two ages of the plague: bubonic in the first, and (among others, present and pe...
| Publicado en: | Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Vol. 10; no. 2; pp. 23 - 45 |
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University of Pennsylvania Press
2010
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=67763651&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 67763651 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 15310485 DBLW jtl: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies issn: 15310485 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2010 vid: 10 iid: 2 pid: 4636 pub: University of Pennsylvania Press artinfo: ui: 67763651 10.1353/jem.2011.0004 ppf: 23 ppct: 22 formats: fmt: @attributes: type: P size: 833KB tig: atl: THE SUBJECT OF THE PLAGUE. aug: au: GILMAN, ERNEST B. su: Plague Biopolitics (Sociobiology) Sociobiology Prehistoric antiquities Epidemics sug: subj: Plague Biopolitics (Sociobiology) Sociobiology Prehistoric antiquities Epidemics ab: This essay brackets the history of the modern subject between the moment of its formation in the seventeenth century and that of its postmodern demise in the latter part of the century just past. These brackets also mark two ages of the plague: bubonic in the first, and (among others, present and pending) the "plague" of AIDS in the second. Can we understand the relation between these two histories as more than a chronological coincidence? Personhood--whether regarded as the integrity of a somatic body or as a function of that body's incorporation in the political or natural order of things--is put under special pressure by the crisis of plague. Furthermore, recognizing an affinity between the construction and deconstruction of the modern subject on the one hand, and plague times on the other reveals the prehistory of our own posthumanist engagement with epidemic disease. This essay thus addresses the subject of the plague "subject" then and now. Finally, the essay frames the plague subject in terms of biopolitical theory while arguing that the historical claims of biopolitics must be adjusted to account for the history of the plague. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies is the property of University of Pennsylvania Press and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies holder: University of Pennsylvania Press dt: @attributes: year: 2010 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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