Relacje międzygatunkowe, biologiczność ciała i polityka krwi. Nagie życie nieludzkich istot popkultury
Journal Title: Przegląd Humanistyczny - Year 2015, Vol 59, Issue 3
Abstract
The aim of the paper is to introduce nonhuman creatures and nonhuman universes presented in popular culture in the context of assumptions related to biopolitics and Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben’s category of “bare life”. The author considers three main dimensions of biopolitics that are crucial in the nonhuman worlds: the process of shaping the structures and socio-political systems, which replaced a solitary life of nonhuman beings, development of medical technologies, and biological visions of the body. According to the author, the most symptomatic to the functioning of biopolitics among the nonhuman universes is the phenomenon that she called “the blood politics”. Blood is understood as a biomedical product that has multiple functions and socio-political applications (from magic potions that change the species belonging, through the artificial “pure blood”, to psychoactive substances). In the paper examples from popular culture, but mostly from movies and television series are considered.<br/><br/>
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Ewelina Twardoch
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