138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

138 Pages
by Routledge

Autoimmunity refers to the phenomenon whereby an organism or body mounts an immune response against its own tissues. As a medical term, autoimmunity is today used to account for any instance in which the body fails to recognise its own constituents as ‘self’, an error that results in the paradoxical situation in which self-defense (immunity, protection) manifests as self-harm (pathology). As a... Read more

1. Fortress Stefan Herbrechter

2. Allergy and Autoimmunity: Rethinking the Normal and the Pathological Michelle Jamieson

3. Self, Not-Self, Not Not-Self But Not Self, or The Knotty Paradoxes of ‘Autoimmunity’: A Genealogical Rumination Ed Cohen

4. Autoimmunity: the political state of nature Vicki Kirby

5. Cosmic Topologies of Imitation: From the Horror of Digital Autotoxicus to the Auto-Toxicity of the Social Tony D. Sampson

6. Contagion, Virology, Autoimmunity: Derrida’s Rhetoric of Contamination Peta Mitchell

7. Auto (Immunity): Evolutions of Otherness Nicole Anderson

8. (Auto)immunity, Social Theory, and the ‘Political’ Cary Wolfe

Biography

Stefan Herbrechter is a research fellow at Coventry University, UK; a Privatdozent at Heidelberg University, Germany; and general editor of criticalposthumanism.net.

Michelle Jamieson is a sociologist and lecturer in the Faculty of Arts at Macquarie University, Australia.