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Author Aristarkhova, I. (Irina)

Title Hospitality of the matrix : philosophy, biomedicine, and culture / Irina Aristarkhova.

Publication Info. New York : Columbia University Press, [2012]
©2012

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 232 pages :) : illustrations
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Journeys of the matrix: in and out of the maternal body -- Materializing hospitality -- The matter of the matrix in biomedicine -- Mother-machine and the hospitality of nursing -- Male pregnancy, matrix, and hospitality -- Conclusion: hosting the mother.
Summary 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 hospitality" producing space and matter of and for the other. Irina Aristarkhova theorizes such hospitality with the potential to go beyond tolerance in understanding self/other relations. Building on and critically evaluating a wide range of historical and contemporary scholarship, she applies this theoretical framewo.
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Subject Birth (Philosophy)
Birth (Philosophy)
Hospitality -- Miscellanea.
Hospitality.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Subject Human reproduction.
Human reproduction.
Nurturing behavior.
Nurturing behavior.
Reproduction.
Reproduction.
Sex role.
Sex role.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Gender roles.
Genre/Form Trivia and miscellanea.
Other Form: Print version: Aristarkhova, Irina. Hospitality of the Matrix : Philosophy, Biomedicine, and Culture. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2012 9780231159289
ISBN 9780231504089 (electronic book)
023150408X (electronic book)
0231159285 (cloth)
0231159293 (paperback)
9780231159289 (cloth)
9780231159296 (paperback)