The body as infrastructure
| Autor: | Archie Davies, Luis Andueza, Hannah Schling, Alex Loftus |
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| Přispěvatelé: | University of St Andrews. School of Geography & Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews. Geographies of Sustainability, Society, Inequalities and Possibilities, University of St Andrews. Environmental Change Research Group |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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2019-20 coronavirus outbreak
Infrastructure H Social Sciences (General) Knowledge management Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) business.industry Computer science Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) 05 social sciences Social reproduction theory T-NDAS SDG 16 - Peace Justice and Strong Institutions 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography 021107 urban & regional planning 02 engineering and technology Human body Social reproduction Metabolism H1 business Abstraction 050703 geography Abstraction (linguistics) Embodied urban political ecology |
| ISSN: | 2514-8486 |
| Popis: | In this paper, we conceptualise the human body as infrastructure, asking what kind of infrastructure it currently is and what kind of infrastructure it could be. We therefore tease out the historically and geographically specific ways in which human bodies have been (re)produced as infrastructure, emphasising the violence of abstraction in capitalist modernity that transforms the productive body into a technology of calorific inputs and outputs. Nevertheless, through demystifying abstract labour we point to the relations of (re)production (needed for the body’s ongoing repair) and the metabolic processes (responsible for both decay and repair) that are subsumed within a broader capitalist system of accumulation. In so doing, we turn to the immanent contradictions and struggles that resist the body’s production as a one-sided technology of circulation and through which it is, and can become, an infrastructure for life and sociality. Publisher PDF |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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