Please join us this afternoon
STS Special Lecture
The Affliction of Freedom:
Shame, Science, and Liberal Governance
Rebecca Herzig
Bates College
4:00 pm, MIT, E51-095
Abstract:
Recent scholarship in STS has focused on the
dilemmas of bodily ownership emerging through
current developments in the life sciences. This
talk highlights previously overlooked features
of the governance of life, labor, and property
in advanced liberal societies, by tracing the
history of a single "human biological" in the
United States: body hair. Consternation over
the nature and purpose of human hairiness,
expressed in scientific treatises, advice
manuals, and private letters, intimates some of
the more vexing contradictions of choice in
modern America--contradictions at the center of contemporary vital politics.
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