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... and queer perspectives must be brought to bear on ontological questions about the neurobiological body. This chapter and the book as a whole argue for the material-semiotic complexity of embrained embodiment. social neuroscience materialism complex embodiment feminist critiques of science affect...

..., Sensibility and Subjectivity, Gender and Trauma, and Representation and Identity. Drawing on theories of performativity (Judith Butler) and phenomenology (Harris Berger), improvisation is examined as a complex site of negotiation, whereby sound and music are heard as both the discursive signs and the embodied...

... Gender and sexuality, race and class, disability and other social stratifications can be understood as frames that affect ways of seeing the neurobiological body; they are also implicated in complex, embrained embodiment. This conclusion argues that epistemological or representational critiques...

...-perception, and she reflects on the complex ethical and political implications of using such drugs in medical and therapeutic contexts. She also discusses the ways in which her experiences with ketamine intersect with her identity as a trans woman and suggests that altered states of consciousness can provide...

... Chapter 2 analyzes how Simone’s cover of “Ne me quitte pas” reached audiences that Brel’s could not, breaking through to English speakers and demonstrating the complexities of understanding a song beyond language. As a Black American woman, Simone’s performance adds layers of meaning to a song...

... submission. She presents writing as a fully embodied activity that includes a complex emotional dimension, with periods of extreme depression, dissatisfaction, and despair, coupled with self-doubt and feelings of complete inadequacy. This chapter also includes further development of Anzaldúa’s theories...

... of meaning and identity as coherent and unitary, and they thereby open up the possibility for new forms of signification. Their performances assert a profound and complex connection between bodies, sensuality, and meaning. Fall on Your Knees also, however, situates the liberatory potential of improvised...

... an unauthorized migrant, along with this practice of escaping the police who seek to deport migrants and the nongovernmental organizations that want to repatriate migrants as a form of aid, collectively produce a geographic and embodied space of the in-between. The geographies of the in-between represent...

... This essay argues that the “archipelagic” turn in American studies is a productive way to more fully engage Guam and the emergent field of Guam studies. It embodies an archipelagic structure by viewing Guam as a complex space contested by various populations and interests vying...

... disruptors and sites for healing; Gullah/Geechee ancestral connection through land; limitations of the archive and artistic efforts to hold more full, complex stories; movement as a means of accessing embodied knowledge and connection; FandangObon dance as a conversation between cultures; Indigenous...

... the interaction between lab instruments and instrument users as recalibrations and as complex processes of enskillment. A discussion of the Nobel Prize–winning biologists Barbara McClintock and Satoshi Ōmura introduces key concepts explored in this book, that is, the manual; skilled vision; knowledge cultures...

... and other close artist-friends, such as Herbert Gentry, are essential to reading his paintings not as indices of any form of social intimacy but as an intimacy borne of multisensory stimuli and affiliations and social exchanges embodied in the complexity of color. In the worked, dense chromatic surfaces...

... Chapter 3 further develops the concept of seascape epistemology as an embodied and emotional ontology for Kanaka Maoli, which involves an engagement with ke kai in such a way that indigenous identity becomes mobile as the body merges with the fluid ocean. This ocean-body assemblage joins...

..., the rhizomatic, the indeterminate. The complex and creatively enabling corporeality addressed in both text and music is materially sounded as black and maternal. For black women, motherhood is a strategic site of embodied political consciousness, of resistance, and of agency. Mitchell’s hybrid of composed...

... of the autonomous subject in shaping these attitudes. Using a narrative ethnography, this chapter seeks to allow the stories of women political prisoners to be heard in context of a complex constellation of social and political conditions, with their memories and embodied histories intermingled in their way...

... Visual narratives matter; it matters who creates them, who receives them, and how they disrupt colonial logics to subtly or loudly demand a just world. The artworks discussed in this book as acts of visual disobedience reveal a complex history of colonial legacies, empire, and manifestations...

..., and Whitehead. This existential rootedness makes error an “objective illusion”–an embodied perspective–not a subjective delusion. The error consists in a misattribution of linear causality that relays into the logic of the general idea. The misattribution of cause leads to a focus on blame, and the logic...

... postsocialism back to late socialism, the preferred period of postsocialist nostalgia. The complexity of postsocialist nostalgia cannot be understood without grasping how commercials embodied longing for alternative times and places within late socialism. TV advertising marketing nostalgia socialism...

...” and violently disavowed as such. These activists’ mode of protest is about exposing the embodied losses—of bodies, communities, and possibilities—that haunt the common intelligibility of memorable life. To think vulnerability together with affirmation would prompt us to trouble the calculative reasoning...