Currency

Dana Teen Lomax

"Dana Teen Lomax's work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the where gender, race, and class are not merely "discourses" but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where "the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$." Currency is nothing less than an oppositional archeology of consumer culture as it reproduces its logics on and in our bodies-both personal and body-political-against a field of possibilities increasingly threatened by the privatization and colonization of the life-world. Writing a radical biopolitics-a "biopoethics"--Would be that practice that articulates itself in resistant song, and, that in Lomax's expanded field, of necessity also dances, in paroxysms full of both rage and desire."--Publisher's website.

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