Wilson, Bronwen
(ed.)
Yachnin, Paul
(ed.)
Editorial: Edinburgh University Press
Colección: Conversions
Número de páginas: 384 págs. 15.0 x 23.0 cm
Fecha de edición: 01-06-2023
EAN: 9781399516006
ISBN: 978-1-3995-1600-6
Precio (sin IVA): 127,03 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 132,11 €
Conversion machines are apparatuses, artfully-fashioned preparations, arrangements, and things that demonstrate processes of change. They are paradoxical things – at once intent on verifying what was invisible, uncertain, and even unknowable, while also acting as sowers of dissimulation. Shifting the focus from subjectivity toward the operations of governments, institutions, artifices, and the body, the contributors to the volume consider how early moderns suffered under the mechanisms of conversion, sometimes were able to realize themselves by dint of being caught up in the machinery of sovereignty, invented scores of new, purpose-built conversional instruments, and experienced forms of radical transformation in their own bodies.