The things-you-can-do-at-home-to-save-the-earth movement has become, in part, things-you-can-do-at-home-to-save-yourself.

Thus, it is not too farfetched to speak of the pancreas under capitalism or the proletarian lung “(Alaimo 27-28). By looking at a broad range of creative and philosophical writings, Alaimo illuminates how science, politics, and culture collide, while considering the closeness of the

Please also list any non-financial associations or interests (personal, professional, political, institutional, religious or other) that a reasonable reader would want to know about in relation to the submitted work. Rather than self-help platitudes, the film promotes the "deviant agency" of "lived" bodies that differs from "both the ableist norms of the dominant culture and the New Age spiritualism of the Wrenwood subculture" (138). In Bodily Natures (2010), Stacy Alaimo argues for an understanding of the human self/body as inherently and deeply interconnected with the environment. For Brennan, scent is the most powerful of the senses in transmitting affects because an odor can become “a vehicle for effecting changes in another’s hormonal (hence affective) composition” (10).

Whereas green consumerism privatizes our response to widespread environmental degradation, the practices of the citizen-expert may foster political awareness of the relations between power and knowledge as well as between science and capitalist enterprise. This Collection focuses on how our brain integrates and applies external and internal signals to give rise to bodily self-consciousness, as well as what the purpose of a bodily self could be, and how it changes under different conditions. Christopher Justice is a doctoral student in the University of Maryland, Baltimore County's Language, Literacy, and Culture program.A powerful approach to study self-consciousness has been to target brain mechanisms that process bodily signals (bodily self-consciousness).

Pioneering work on the neurophysiology of VIP neurons and the integration of visual and tactile cues that are likely to be of relevance for self-identification. However, this focus distracts attention away from the materiality of race and overemphasizes culture and discourse. Tool use changes multisensory interactions in seconds: evidence from the crossmodal congruency task. Indeed, by surveying the failure of these categories as proper to the human body, we gain further insight into Heidegger's initial deferral: only given the existential analytic can one begin to offer a proper account of ourselves in bodily terms.That bodies are active matter and do not exist before or beyond the material relations with their environments comprises the starting point for the book's analysis of the literature, science, and popular culture of late-twentieth-century environmental health and justice movements. By attending to the material interconnections between the human and the more-than-human world, it may be possible to conjure an ethics lurking in an idiomatic definition of matter (or the matter)…Concern and wonder converge when the context for ethics becomes not merely social but material- the emergent, ultimately unmappable landscapes of interacting biological, climatic, economic, and political forces…Imagining human corporeality as trans-corporeality, in which the human is always intermeshed with the more-than-human world, underlines the extent to which the substance of the human is ultimately inseparable from “the environment. That heat is partly due to University of Texas-Arlington Professor Stacy Alaimo, whose article "States of Suspension: Trans-corporeality at Sea" is featured in that ISLE volume. Luke offers one of the most tangible and disturbing depictions of what it is to live in risk society.

eds) Meconnassiances et Hallucinations Corporelles: Integration et Desintegration de la Somatognosie 310–343 (Masson, 1952) (in French). The second chapter, "Eros and X-rays," focuses on Meridel Le Sueur's writings and Muriel Rukeyser's The Book of the Dead, tracing the repressive political control over nature and labor and the subsequent beginnings of the environmental justice movement in the early twentieth century. She also analyzes Muriel Rukeyser's poem The Book of the Dead, concluding that Nature in that text is a "material substance that moves through human bodies, inseparable from networks of power and knowledge" (58).Interaction of linear vestibular and visual stimulation in the macaque ventral intraparietal area (VIP). Alaimo's discussion of Sandra Steingraber's Living Downstream: A Scientist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment sheds light on the difficulty of becoming a "citizen-expert," for, even as a scientist, Steingraber finds it arduous to glean "reliable scientific data" from mountains of documents (97).