Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities Condition:Good public sculpture

public sculpture

Aria is a guardian angel

also an only child

which only a relative handful of species have crossed

Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect - Perverse Modernities Condition:Good public sculptureIn Animacies, Mel Y. Chen draws on recent debates about sexuality, race, and affect to examine how matter that is considered insensate, immobile, or deathly animates cultural lives. Toward that end, Chen investigates the blurry division between the living and the dead, or that which is beyond the human or animal. Within the field of linguistics, animacy has been described variously as a quality of agency, awareness, mobility, sentience, or liveness.