How Do We Do Biodeconstruction?

The word biodeconstruction asks us to consider what is appropriate to deconstruction as a practice and to reflect on the relationship between the discourse of biology and that practice. Within literary, philosophical, and cultural debate, deconstruction appears as a recognisable mode or style of ana...

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Published in:Postmodern culture 2018-05, Vol.28 (3)
Main Authors: Kirby, Vicki, Schrader, Astrid, Timár, Eszter
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Anthropocentrism
Biology
Deconstruction
Feminism
Interiority
Kirby, Vicki
Life sciences
Politics
Realism
Schrader, Astrid
Timar, Eszter
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Summary:The word biodeconstruction asks us to consider what is appropriate to deconstruction as a practice and to reflect on the relationship between the discourse of biology and that practice. Within literary, philosophical, and cultural debate, deconstruction appears as a recognisable mode or style of analysis. However, what happens if we interrogate the radical interiority of textuality in terms of biology's rhetorical structures and logics or through scientific evidence and methodologies? If biology is routinely equated with origins, prescriptions, and first causes, can this classical narrative of temporal unfolding be shifted? Can biodeconstruction refigure the relation between the empirical and the conceptual?
ISSN:1053-1920
1053-1920
DOI:10.1353/pmc.2018.0021