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relates to body and society. Located within the struggle to apprehend different
categories of ‘body’ in the volatile flows of late-capital, indeterminacy is
considered through such multiple incarnations as economy, contingency,
inheritance, question, force, uncertainty, materiality and affective resistance
to determination. While indeterminacy is often positioned as the ‘trouble’ or
friction in subject/object knowledge-formation (framed as ontological or
empirical challenge), it also engenders affects such that some subjects are both
in and out of recognition. Questions of indeterminacy overlap with work on
imperceptibility, giving rise to interlocked questions about the modes of
representation, categorization, inclusion, exclusion and sensibility in the
production of bodies. We address the hesitancies, difficulties and necessities
of working with and through indeterminacy in order open up new descriptions,
visions and modes of political work.
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