Material Bodies

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III.CorporealSemiotics:TheBodyoftheText/theTextof
theBody .......................................................................................

1. TextualizingLife—an IncompleteProject.............................. 325
   Bodies in Emergence and Emergency – National
   Intimacies:The"PoliticsofLife"andtheReligiousRight–
   Re-WritingtheBookofLife:Genomics–FindingaTextfor
   the Book of Life–Biological Futures–Parables of the
   Possible:ContoursofanEnhancedLife–WethePeople,in
   Order to Have More Perfect Bodies: Biotechnology and
   NeoliberalGovernance


2. RepresentationsandtheTracesofSuffering .......................... 370
   Putting It in Words, or, Another Distrust in the Signifier–
   Emphatic Embodiment–Private Practice: Pain as Inner
   Experience–The We of Pain–Pain as Relationship and
   Relation


3. TheSilentKiller:Cancer(s) ....................................................
   Stories We Die By: Cancers as Story Generators –
   Somatics, Semantics and the Allegory of Unregulated
   Growth–When theFleshBecomesWord,or,TheSemiotic
   ModelofHumanEmbodiment

InConclusive:HumanBiologyandtheWorkofCulturalCritique....

Biology,AmericanStudiesandCulturalCritique–Figures

of the Collective: Human Biology as Cultural Idiom and

Issue

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