... understanding of the leviathan as a moving body-politic, the chapter analyzes movement as a collective political undertaking. Movement appears as the material substance of political life, action, and association, through which violence, resistance, and political freedom are tied. One of the concrete...

... sex hormones sex/gender transsexual/travesty substance blood ...

... women and drug use welfare reform prenatal substance exposure child custody family ...

... organismal biology cellular respiration habitat dependence interdependence oxygen biocultural creatures substance ontology ...

... This chapter discusses how the women in the daily-rent hotels found themselves enmeshed in a complex web of addiction, mental health diagnoses, and housing instability in which specific forms of social recognition were in operation. In 1997, the disallowance of substance use dependence...

... substances into and out of cells. The cross-membrane traffic effected by the permeability of cell membranes entails that we eschew thinking of these boundaries in terms of a topographical demarcation of the different substances that distinguish the inside and outside of a cell. The chapter proposes instead...

... or someone else but discloses itself as comment on the coordination, orientation, and obligation of local existents—in contemporary settler late liberalism. Three aspects of manifestation are especially important to the discussion: a presupposition about the entanglements of substances; a hypothesis about...

... hormones sex/gender transsexual/travesty substance blood ...

... This chapter describes how historic welfare debates and the emergent sciences of prenatal substance use exposure both influence the relationship between addicted pregnancy and the state. The ways addicted, pregnant women interacted with and avoided systems of care and control throughout...

... of life are possible here? Every state in the United States has a surveillance system in place to identify prenatal substance use exposure; seventeen states consider substance abuse during pregnancy to be child abuse; three consider it grounds for civil commitment, or incarceration. On the blocks...

... The introduction lays out the key arguments of the book. It proposes and explicates the book’s overarching concepts of “metabolic living” and “absorption” in order to foreground the work that people do to endure living with life-depleting and life-giving substances on a daily basis. A detailed...

... and in the absence of which they lack substance and intelligibility. The global age is, in short, that epoch defined by the complete and irreversible “inactuality” of Schmittian thought. Carl Schmitt universalism international law the partisan Cold War terrorism global war ...

... substances get utilized, unitized, and numericalized, or qualified and quantified more generally. And it theorizes this local articulation of use value in terms of labor power (or potentia , more generally) and personhood (as a particular kinding of human potentia). replacement grading ontology...