Moral caliper, eugenics and beautiful cosmetic surgery: A post-technomedical racism in liberal democracies
Relationships established for cosmetic surgery and other beauty practices as socio-technical instruments mediators in the alleged demands of a liberal democratic society to overcome racism that, however, is unable to leave the scopic regime are reviewed. The aesthetic interventions generate a specif...
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| Language: | English |
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Universidad Rey Juan Carlos
2014-11-01
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| Series: | methaodos.revista de ciencias sociales |
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| Online Access: | https://www.methaodos.org/revista-methaodos/index.php/methaodos/article/view/51 |
| Summary: | Relationships established for cosmetic surgery and other beauty practices as socio-technical instruments mediators in the alleged demands of a liberal democratic society to overcome racism that, however, is unable to leave the scopic regime are reviewed. The aesthetic interventions generate a specific, surgical, universal beauty and therefore post-racial. This claim, paradoxically, ends up being post-human and discursively situated equidistant from surgical-center aesthetic argument, and as radical poles, both raciológico-xenophobic ideas as to progesista-emancipatory, both conservative regarding the "democratization" of cosmetic surgery liberal. |
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| ISSN: | 2340-8413 2340-8413 |