Bodies that Border that Line

Hamzić, Vanja

Abstract

There is something about human body that defies borders; not only is one’s body unthinkable outside of its immediate environment—be that environment construed out of bodies of others, of certain human or even non-human shared corporeality, or of a space where the world, or worlding, happens—it is equally seemingly non-existent in the absence of other partial and perhaps necessarily imperfect connections: in language, sociality and other ways of being collective, or part of collectives, in one’s lifeworld. So, to draw a border, as Marilyn Strathern seems to have implied with her critical anthropological concepts of ‘dividuality’ and
‘partial connections’, means, in a way, to slip into an epistemic abyss where, in order to become something other than the other, one needs to at least partly lose oneself.

Citation

Hamzić, V. (2018, June). Bodies that Border that Line. Presented at 'Queer' Asia 2018 Keynote Panel, 'Queer' Asia Conference, SOAS University of London, London, UK

• Presentation Conference Type: Keynote
• Conference Name: 'Queer' Asia 2018 Keynote Panel
• Start Date: Jun 1, 2018
• End Date: Jun 1, 2018
• Acceptance Date: Jun 26, 2018
• Deposit Date: Jul 4, 2018
• Related Public URLs: https://queerasia.com/qa18-keynote-panel/
• Additional Information: Event Type : Conference