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Kathryn Staiano-Ross

Losing myself: Body as icon/body as object(s)

Ownership of the body, its organs, tissues, marrow, fluids, secretions, and other component parts and products must always be contested, for what appears to belong to the individual may instead be turned into property at the expense of the individual and to the benefit of the social collectivity. Legal discourse relies upon and supports scientific discourse. Both are the product and the producer of utilitarian commercial interests. Collectively, they displace the individual self with a ‘body’ of social interest, encouraging entrepreneurship over the interests of the individual, and quieting social and philosophical discussions concerning self and its location.

Semiotica, Walter de Gruyter

Print ISSN: 0037-1998
Volume: 2005, 04/2005
Pages: 57 - 94

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