On the body and the human-ecology distinction

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dc.contributor.authorParker, Emily
dc.contributor.departmentTowson University, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studiesen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-24T15:57:39Z
dc.date.available2021-09-24T15:57:39Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.description.abstractReading Fanon yields a critique of a concept that he did not himself explicitly criticize, but which his project in effect renders deeply problematic, “the body.” I therefore question this concept in the present as it suggests a supposedly generic body whose meanings and therefore intuitions and fears are also denied. I argue that reading Frantz Fanon after Bruno Latour, it is possible to understand where “the body” as a concept comes from: “The body” becomes the meaning of the modern political precisely in its exclusion of “ecology.” If for Latour, modernity means the attempt to purge culture of nature and thereby to exacerbate natural disasters precisely in this effort, for Fanon, modernity is Manichaean: Moderns (wielders of colonial power) seek to purge humanness of all things ecological, including bodily difference, which threatens the political and ecological distinction. “The body” is far from a benign figure of speech. It pretends to a genericity that is in fact nowhere to be found on earth. “The body” is a distinctly modern legacy, evidence and fuel of modernity’s planetary alienation.en_US
dc.description.urihttps://muse.jhu.edu/article/711080en_US
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.format.extent26 pagesen_US
dc.genrejournal articlesen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2zz5v-kecz
dc.identifier.citationParker, E. A. (2018). On “The Body” and the Human-Ecology Distinction: Reading Frantz Fanon after Bruno Latour. PhiloSOPHIA, 8(2), 59–84. https://doi.org/10.1353/phi.2018.0015en_US
dc.identifier.issn2155-0905
dc.identifier.uri10.1353/phi.2018.0015
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/23033
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherState University of New York Pressen_US
dc.relation.isAvailableAtTowson University
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPhiloSOPHIA;volume 8, number 2
dc.subjectBody (Corporeal)en_US
dc.subjectFanon, Frantz, 1925-1961en_US
dc.subjectLatour, Brunoen_US
dc.subjectHuman bodyen_US
dc.subjectHuman dimensionsen_US
dc.titleOn the body and the human-ecology distinctionen_US
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