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Hospitality of the Matrix
Irina Aristarkhova
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Description for Hospitality of the Matrix
Num Pages: 248 pages, 3 illus. BIC Classification: HPCF7; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 454.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231159289
SKU
V9780231159289
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99-15
About Irina Aristarkhova
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.
Reviews for Hospitality of the Matrix
Every feminist scholar interested in the spaces, practices, limits, and social meanings of motherhood will want to read this book. Irina Aristarkhova's erudite, intrepid exploration of the meaning of the matrix in philosophy, embryology, biomedicine, nursing, and performance art is a tour de force of feminist scholarship. Bringing together matter, mind, and new media, her book demonstrates how a full ... Read more