Hospitality of the Matrix : : Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture /

Hospitality of the Matrix : : Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture / / Irina Aristarkhova.

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 hospitalit...

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Aristarkhova, Irina,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (248 p.) :; 3 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Journeys of the Matrix: In and Out of the Maternal Body
  • 2. Materializing Hospitality
  • 3. The Matter of the Matrix in Biomedicine
  • 4. Mother-Machine and the Hospitality of Nursing
  • 5. Male Pregnancy, Matrix, and Hospitality
  • Conclusion: Hosting the Mother
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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