Anaesthetics of Existence
Anaesthetics of Existence "Experience" is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. In Anaesthetics of Existence Cressida J. At the same time,…
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Anaesthetics of Existence
"Experience" is a thoroughly political category, a social and historical product not authored by any individual. In Anaesthetics of Existence Cressida J. At the same time, "the personal is political," and one's own lived experience is an important epistemic resource.
If for Foucault an "aesthetics of existence" was a project of making one's life a work of art, Heyes's "anaesthetics of existence" describes antiprojects that are tacitly excluded from life-but should be brought back in. Heyes reconciles these two positions, drawing on examples of things that happen to us but are nonetheless excluded from experience. Drawing on critical phenomenology, genealogy, and feminist theory, Heyes shows how and why experience has edges, and she analyzes phenomena that press against those edges.
Essays on sexual violence against unconscious victims, the temporality of drug use, and