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Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Making over : metamorphosis, taxonomy, vantage -- Prosopopeias: exceeding kind -- Temporality still -- Social algebras -- Scopic folding, layered economies -- The fixer -- Gender is as gender does : on the rebound -- Spurious displays -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Filmography -- Index

Reproductions of Reproduction is about the loss of the paternal metaphor and how the ensuing scramble to relocate it has set off a series of representational crises. Examining the sudden popularity of such figures as cyborgs, bodybuilders, and vampires; shifts in legislation about abortion, paternity and copyright; the transition to a digital-based society; the emergence of lesbian and gay studies; the growing infatuation with hyper-realistic patterns in television, this book argues that each of these manifestations represents an attempt to resituate the paternal metaphor. While this shift aff

As long as the United States perpetuates the unequal statuses of males and females in the Constitution, dignity will mean different things to each. While males automatically have the dignity and worth of fully enfranchised citizens, females must accept a version of dignity based upon the manner in which they acquiesce to their legally inferior position. In suing the United States Soccer Foundation for equal pay, The United States Women's Soccer team brought the issue of status and dignity into the open in a very public way, enacting the dignity of those accorded full Constitutional rights.

In his essay, "Althusser's Mirror," Carsten Strathausen reveals the paternal politics inherent to any gesture of appropriation. Molding Lacan to an Althusserian mirror, Strathausen demonstrates parallels between Lacan's mirror stage and Althusser's interpellated subject. The resemblance, created through what Strathausen suggests is Althusser's mis-reading of Lacan, reveals their mutual influence. The question of influence, however, becomes an issue of tradition Althusser links to a politics of legitimacy and right he associates with a figure of paternity. While the process of filiation would seem to extend from Lacan to Althusser in the logic of the mirror employed by Strathausen to renew Marxist thought, Althusser also situates himself as the father to a Lacan he is attempting to salvage from the ignominy of illegitimacy.

Looking at the metaphorical similarities between abortion statutes and copyright law reveals reproductive laws' stake in property ideologies. "Fair use" provisions in copyright law are analogous to abortion rights, delimiting the extent to which a non-owner (one who copies, a mother) can exert control over material "belonging" to another. The similarity suggests that the way to understand abortion fury is as a manifestation of property rights.

When Posthumanism displaces the traditional human subject, what does psychoanalysis add to contemporary conversations about subject/object relations, systems, perspectives, and values? This book discusses whether Posthumanism itself is a cultural indication of a shift in thinking that is moving from language to matter, from a politics focused on social relations to one organized according to a broader sense of object in environments. Together the authors question what is at stake in this shift and what psychoanalysis can say about it. 0Promoting psychoanalysis? focus on the cybernetic relationships among subjects, language, social organizations, desire, drive, and other human motivations, this book demonstrates the continued relevance of Lacan?s work not only to continued understandings of the human subject, but to the broader cultural impasses we now face. This book explains how Lacanian notions of the subject inform current discussions about human complicity with, and resistance to, algorithmic governing regimes, which themselves more wholly produce a ?post?-humanism than any philosophical displacement of human centrality could