... (neither human nor nonhuman) to whom things might matter, the chapter ends by making a case for a paradoxically responsible decisionism, a decisionism that endlessly limits itself by closing off any recourse to a perspective outside the frame of biopolitics. By doing away with immunity and its reciprocal...

... Two videos shared on YouTube are discussed in the epilogue as a way to bring together the book’s key concerns around the question of what happens when blackness enters the frame. One video shows what happens when two people—one black and one white—test out a webcam’s automated facial tracking...

... violence, especially as it bolsters notions of encultured patriarchy. These framings have an impact on how readers consume information and what they deem to be the most critical issues in contexts of conflict. Yet journalists operate within a media ecosystem, with pressure from editorial desks dictating...

... and constrain the Black body within the photographic frame. Looking both to fine art and vernacular photography for comparative treatments of the Black body as both a scientific and an aesthetic object, the chapter positions Muybridge’s photographs as instrumental in giving visual form to fantasies (and fears...

...Frames ...

...Framing Transplantation Moving away from the iconic dyad of organ donor and organ recipient, this chapter delves into the social life of the kidney itself to engage one of the key analytic frames that anthropology has brought to the study of transplantation. First, exploring how the notions...

...Thematic Framings ...

...Media Frames This chapter analyzes the author's dramatic story of pitching an article investigating the media coverage and complex politics of a highly publicized legal case in Michigan against a physician for performing female genital cutting (FGC). The case coincided with the introduction...

...Framing the Postcolonial ...