Halifax, NS

Biopolitics Under the Skin

Cancer's Margins, the Choreography of Knowledge, and Imag(in)ing Medicine's Queer Pedagogies

10:30am
- 12:00pm
Wednesday October 2 2013

Dalhousie's Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology
Speaker Series:

Dr. Mary Bryson

In this public lecture Dr. Mary K. Bryson from the University of British Columbia explores Nietzche's claim that 'knowledge has survival value rather than truth value.' Dr. Bryson's talk will situate her Cancer's Margins project and its preliminary findings in an overview of agonistic feminist, postcolonial, and queer biopolitical scholarship concerning embodiment, chronicity and new analytic modes of technomaterialism that have foregrounded and articulated complex and discontinuous assemblages that twist, warp and reimagine modernity's bedrock binaries, including 'alive<>dead', 'real <>fiction', 'subject<>object', 'now<>then' and so on. This lecture will engage with the opportunity, and perhaps, the obligation, to think critically about the move to delimit historically, and as a gesture to an entirely different futurity, the time when a biopolitics of embodied humanism was organized in a relation of explicit politicization. 

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