Heyes’s Introduction to _Anaesthetics of Existence: Essays on Experience on the Edge_
In this short introduction to my monograph Anaesthetics of Existence, I explain the origin of the book in a mishearing of Foucault’s phrase “an aesthetics of existence” and outline the book’s method (a melding of genealogy and phenomenology) and its subject: the politics of experience, and especial...
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University of Western Ontario
2023-06-01
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| Series: | Feminist Philosophy Quarterly |
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| Online Access: | https://ojs.lib.uwo.ca/index.php/fpq/article/view/16599 |
| Summary: | In this short introduction to my monograph Anaesthetics of Existence, I explain the origin of the book in a mishearing of Foucault’s phrase “an aesthetics of existence” and outline the book’s method (a melding of genealogy and phenomenology) and its subject: the politics of experience, and especially how to think about undergoings that either are excluded from experience or happen at its edges. The book contains a chapter on Foucault and this new method; one on sexual violence against unconscious victims; two chapters on postdisciplinary temporality in twenty-first century work, and what I call “anaesthetic time”; and a closing chapter on the limit-experience of childbirth.
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| ISSN: | 2371-2570 |