Hospitality of the Matrix - Philosophy, Biomedicine and Culture

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-231-15928-9
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 460 g

The question "Where do we come from?" has fascinated philosophers, scientists, and artists for generations. This book reorients the question of the matrix as a place where everything comes from (chora, womb, incubator) by recasting it in terms of acts of "matrixial/maternal hospitality" producing space and matter of and for the other. Irina Aristarkhova theorizes such hospitality with the potential to go beyond tolerance in understanding self/other relations. Building on and critically evaluating a wide range of historical and contemporary scholarship, she applies this theoretical framework to the science, technology, and art of ectogenesis (artificial womb, neonatal incubators, and other types of generation outside of the maternal body) and proves the question "Can the machine nurse?" is critical when approaching and understanding the functional capacities and failures of incubating technologies, such as artificial placenta. Aristarkhova concludes with the science and art of male pregnancy, positioning the condition as a question of the hospitable man and newly defined fatherhood and its challenge to the conception of masculinity as unable to welcome the other.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Aristarkhova, Irina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Bioethik, Tierethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Feministische Philosophie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Bioethik, Tierethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Kulturphilosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. Journeys of the Matrix: In and Out of the Maternal Body2. Materializing Hospitality3. The Matter of the Matrix in Biomedicine4. Mother-Machine and the Hospitality of Nursing5. Male PregnancyConclusion: Hosting the MotherNotesReferencesIndex

Leseproben

Read Aristarkhova's chapter on "The Male Art Pregnancy Project" from Hospitality of the Matrix: Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture (to view in full screen, click on icon in bottom right-hand corner):

Über Autor(innen)

Aristarkhova, Irina
Irina Aristarkhova is associate professor of women’s studies and visual art at Pennsylvania State University, University Park. She edited and contributed to the volume Woman Does Not Exist: Contemporary Studies of Sexual Difference and to the Russian translation of Luce Irigaray’s An Ethics of Sexual Difference.