Dissident Gut: Technologies of Regularity, Politics of Revolt

by Jean Walton

Explores the biopolitics of modern metabolism, of how humans manage the world through their peristaltic systems, as they ingest food and produce waste. Set against a backdrop of Marx's theory of how we "mediate, regulate, and control" our metabolic relation to nature, of the rise of a bourgeois faecal habitus, of the relegation of domestic waste management to female "meta-industrial" workers, of depleted agricultural fields and polluted urban centres,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1399532928
• ISBN13: 9781399532921
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 272 Pages