Disruptive Fluidity explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. Arguing that the subject can be construed as a textual product of the imagery of solid body boundaries, this study comprises a gradually unfolding story of the poetics of the body / self.

Autorentext

Anna Chromik is Lecturer in Cultural and Literary Theory at the Institute of English Cultures and Literatures, University of Silesia (Poland).

Klappentext

Disruptive Fluidity explores the textual tropes of liquidity in contemporary reconstructions of modern subjectivity. The key idea that frames the book is the assumption concerning the culture-creating functions of such dichotomies as containment/incontinence, interior/exterior, cleanliness/contamination, and demarcation/boundlessness, and their role in the process of defining the notion of modern subjectivity. These assumptions are based on a conviction that categories traditionally identified with corporeality do not exist in separation from the discourse of subjectivity. What is more, the corporeal metaphors might constitute an inscription and record of its norm-creating practices. Arguing that the subject can be construed as a textual product of the imagery of solid body boundaries, this study comprises a gradually unfolding story of the poetics of the body/self.

Inhalt
Contents: Modern subjectivity Body boundaries Cogito Cartesian subject Humeral body Grotesque body Fluidity Mirror stage Individuality Borders Jacques Lacan Julia Kristeva Mary Douglas Michel Foucault Pre-Modern Undifferentiation Birth of the Subject Pre-Subjective Merger Body without Boundaries Asubjective Incontinence Precarious Borders.