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Shiloh Krupar, “The Biopsic Adventures of Mammary Glam: Breast Cancer Detection and the Practice of Cancer Glamor,” Social Semiotics 22.5 (2012): 47-82

ABSTRACT:  This ficto-criticism piece explores breast cancer detection in the context of risk and biopolitics, and in response develops “cancer glam” as a practice of critical-reflective embodiment and relational-material ontology. An array of detection technologies and numerous figures, such as the cyborg, the monster, the survivor, and the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are visited along the way.  Academia.edu link

*Part of a co-edited special issue with Nadine Ehlers of the international cultural studies journal Social Semiotics – “The Body in Breast Cancer” – Volume 22, issue 1 (2012)