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I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller - to find out how they are. So they're dependent on me. I have to engage them. Otherwise there's nothing to photograph… And when the sitting is over … there's nothing left except the photograph and a kind of embarrassment.

After its establishment in 1948 many Jews emmigrated to Israel from Arab countries, Yemen included. In 1995, a governmental committee was established to investigate the alleged disappearance of about 1000 Yemenite children from hospitals within transit camps where the new immigrants were kept in the 1950s. Interviews with Yemenites present how the bodies of new immigrants were medicalized and commodified in the transit camps during the mass-immigration period of the 1950s, and how people have come to resist it. I conclude with the role of the Israeli medical profession and biomedical technologies in promoting national goals and as mediators of collective, group and individual identities.

Body Art: Marks of Identity. American Museum of Natural History, New York, November 20, 1999–May 29, 2000.

This article critiques contemporary feminist theory's frequent ocularcentric readings of the anorexic body as a surface of cultural inscription or as a paradigmatic sign of the female body's alienation through sexual difference. In an initial speculative attempt to find a theoretical framework that might sustain a more generative and embodied account of anorexia, I read anorexia through Butler's theory of gender as psychic `incorporation' because she problematizes an interior/exterior topography of the subject. This Butlerian framework proves problematic because, by establishing an association between visibly queer gender and subversion, it effectively designates as hegemonic any sense of gender as a felt interiority. In a second framework, I draw on Prosser's anti-ocularcentric reading of transsexual `body narratives' derived from Anzieu's theory of the `skin ego'. Filtering Butler's theory of melancholia through this skin ego framework, I find a theoretical space for anorexia as a transitional embodied subjectivity which both re-lives and relieves the melancholic trauma of gender.

Examines how major social forces -- capital, technology, science, & markets -- "become embedded in the psychophysical nexus of individual human bodies so thoroughly that machinic performances become close to instinctual operations." A critical rereading is offered of machine technology in modern capitalist society to explore how the body, "as psyche & physique, mediates the machinic force of states (the body politic) & markets (the body shop)." As an exercise in "deep technology," the dynamics of bodies & bodybuilding are explored to reveal both corporal & ontological assumptions inherent in modern nation-states & markets. The creation of the "technified" body through the use of workout machines such as the Nordic Track/Nordic Flex is analyzed within the social, political, technical, & disciplinary machinations of the "global machine" of capitalism; relations of the individual body to the body shop & body politic are explored. The argument is framed with particular reference to the theories of Thomas Hobbes 1962), Adam Smith (1987), Donna Haraway (1991), Bruno Latour (1993), & William Greider (1996). 28 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

Examines how major social forces -- capital, technology, science, & markets -- "become embedded in the psychophysical nexus of individual human bodies so thoroughly that machinic performances become close to instinctual operations." A critical rereading is offered of machine technology in modern capitalist society to explore how the body, "as psyche & physique, mediates the machinic force of states (the body politic) & markets (the body shop)." As an exercise in "deep technology," the dynamics of bodies & bodybuilding are explored to reveal both corporal & ontological assumptions inherent in modern nation-states & markets. The creation of the "technified" body through the use of workout machines such as the Nordic Track/Nordic Flex is analyzed within the social, political, technical, & disciplinary machinations of the "global machine" of capitalism; relations of the individual body to the body shop & body politic are explored. The argument is framed with particular reference to the theories of Thomas Hobbes 1962), Adam Smith (1987), Donna Haraway (1991), Bruno Latour (1993), & William Greider (1996). 28 References. K. Hyatt Stewart