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Monstrous Ontologies : Politics Ethics Materiality / edited by Caterina Nirta, Andrea Pavoni.
Publication Info.
Wilmington, Delaware : Vernon Press, [2021]
Online access
Online ebook via EBSCO. Access restricted to current Rider University students, faculty, and staff.
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polychrome
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Series
Vernon Press series in philosophy
Vernon series in philosophy.
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eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject
While the presence of monsters in popular culture is ever-increasing, their use as an explicit or implicit category to frame, stigmatise, and demonise the other is seemingly on the rise. At the same time, academic interest for monsters is ever-growing. Usually, monstrosity is understood as a category that emerges to signal a transgression to a given order; this approach has led to the demystification of the insidious characterisations of the (racial, sexual, physical) other as monstrous. While this effort has been necessary, its collateral effects have reduced the monstrous to a mere (socio-cultural) construction of the other: a dialectical framing that de facto deprives monstrosity from any reality.'Monstrous Ontologies: Politics, Ethics, Materiality'proffers the necessity of challenging these monstrous otherings and their perverse socio-political effects, whilst also asserting that the monstrous is not simply an epistemological construct, but that it has an ontological reality. There is a profound difference between monsters and monstrosity. While the former is an often sterile political and
social
simplification, the end-product of rhetorical and biopolitical apparatuses; the latter may be understood as a dimension that nurtures the un-definable, that is, that shows the limits of these apparatuses by embodying their material excess: not a'cultural frame', but the limit to the very mechanism of'framing'. The monstrous expresses the combining, hybridising, becoming, and creative potential of socio-natural life, albeit colouring this powerful vitalism
with
the dark hue of a fearful, disgusting, and ultimately indigestible reality that cannot simply be embraced
with
multicultural naivety. As such, it forces us towards radically changing not the categories, but the very mechanisms of categorisation through which reality is framed and acted upon. Here lies the profound ethical dimension that monstrosity forces us to acknowledge; here lies its profoundly political potential, one that cannot be unfolded by merely deconstructing monstrosity, and rather requires to engage
with
its uncomfortable, appalling, and revealing materiality. This book will appeal to postgraduate
students
, PostDocs, and academics alike in the fields of philosophy, critical theory, humanities, sociology and
social
theory, criminology, human geography, and critical legal theory.
Monsters in mass media.
Monsters in mass media.
Monsters in popular culture.
Monsters in popular culture.
Genre/Form
Electronic books.
ISBN
1648892191 (electronic book)
9781648892196 (electronic book)