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More-than-human collaborations: performative image-making in contemporary biomedical imaging techniques.

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Abstract

Subjectivity is increasingly intertwined with technological apparatuses that influence processes of subjectification and change the possibilities of action available to the subject. Based on a performative understanding of biomedical image-making, we suggest that subjectivity emerges and acts as part of more-than-human collaborations. Consequently, we argue that subjectivity must be reframed as more-than-human subjectivity. In this paper, we offer such a reframing based on notions of distribution and composition, addressing both processes of subjectivation in collaboration with image-making techniques and subjectivity itself as emerging and enacted in more-than-human collaborations. We conclude on a tentative suggestion,
how such a reconceptualized subjectivity is useful for the orientation within the contemporary and future technosphere.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)163-178
Number of pages16
JournalMetabasis.it
VolumeNovember 2024 year XIX
Issue numbern. 38
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 2024

Keywords

  • image-making
  • biomedical imaging
  • visualisation
  • more-than-human
  • self-image

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