"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."
"The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and dieting regimes, recreational practices, and high-profile sporting mega-events—holds a vital function in contemporary society. As the body moves—as it performs, sweats, runs, and jumps—it sets in motion an intricate web of scientific rationalities, spatial arrangements, corporate imperatives, and identity politics (i.e. politics of gender, race, social clas ..."
"Easypieces is published for the first New York museum solo presentation of work by Argentine artist Mika Rottenberg (born 1976). Employing absurdist satire to address the critical issues of our time, Rottenberg creates videos and installations that offer subversive allegories for contemporary life. Contributors include Samantha Frost, Associate Professor of Political Science and Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Illinois, ..."
Biocultural Creatures Toward a New Theory of the Human (Hardback) by SamanthaFrost Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke Univ Pr (Tx) ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6109-1, ISBN: 0-8223-6109-4
"In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and sy ..."
Biocultural Creatures Toward a New Theory of the Human by SamanthaFrost Paperback, 216 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke University Press Books ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-6128-2, ISBN: 0-8223-6128-0
"In Biocultural Creatures, Samantha Frost brings feminist and political theory together with findings in the life sciences to recuperate the category of the human for politics. Challenging the idea of human exceptionalism as well as other theories of subjectivity that rest on a distinction between biology and culture, Frost proposes that humans are biocultural creatures who quite literally are cultured within the material, social, and sy ..."
Biocultural Creatures Toward a New Theory of the Human by SamanthaFrost 216 Pages, Published 2016 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-7435-0, ISBN: 0-8223-7435-8
"2013. The Posthuman. Malden, MA: Polity. Brooker, Robert J., Eric P. Widmaier,
Linda Graham, and Peter Stiling. 2008. Selected Material from Biology. Vol. 1.
Chemistry, Cell Biology and Genetics. New York: McGraw Hill. Brown, Wendy.
2005. Edgework: Critical Essays on Knowledge and ... South Atlantic Quarterly
103 (2/3): 451–63. Brown, Wendy. 2001. Politics out of History. ... American
Political Science Review 106 (1): 1–34. Cheah, ..."
New Materialisms Ontology, Agency, and Politics by Diana Coole, SamanthaFrost 347 Pages, Published 2010 by Duke University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-9299-6, ISBN: 0-8223-9299-2
"Ramachandran, V. S. Phantoms in the Brain. New York: William ... New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004. Rooney, Ellen, ed. ... Sartre, Jean-Paul. Critique of
Dialectical Reason. Vol. 1. Translated by Alan Sheridan-Smith. London: New Left
Books, 1976. Originally published as Critique de la raison dialectique, tome 1.
Paris: Gallimard, 1960. ———. ''Jean-Paul Sartre répond.'' L'Arc 1 no. 30 (1966) ..."
Lessons from a Materialist Thinker(1st Edition) Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics (Cultural Memory in the Present) by SamanthaFrost Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2008 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5748-5, ISBN: 0-8047-5748-8
"Thomas Hobbes is an iconic figure who serves as an easy reference for pundits commenting on the brutality of war as well as for critics of a distinctly modern individualism in which calculating and rapacious self-interest is the cause of the violence, destruction, and exploitation endemic to the contemporary world. Frost's reading of Hobbes's philosophy shows us that underlying such visions of self and politics is another iconic figure ..."
Lessons from a Materialist Thinker(1st Edition) Hobbesian Reflections on Ethics and Politics (Cultural Memory in the Present) by SamanthaFrost Hardcover, 232 Pages, Published 2008 by Stanford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8047-5747-8, ISBN: 0-8047-5747-X
"Thomas Hobbes is an iconic figure who serves as an easy reference for pundits commenting on the brutality of war as well as for critics of a distinctly modern individualism in which calculating and rapacious self-interest is the cause of the violence, destruction, and exploitation endemic to the contemporary world. Frost's reading of Hobbes's philosophy shows us that underlying such visions of self and politics is another iconic figure: ..."
"New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances in scientific knowledge to address pres ..."
"New Materialisms brings into focus and explains the significance of the innovative materialist critiques that are emerging across the social sciences and humanities. By gathering essays that exemplify the new thinking about matter and processes of materialization, this important collection shows how scholars are reworking older materialist traditions, contemporary theoretical debates, and advances in scientific knowledge to address pres ..."