Description: This book analyses the relationship between the body, technology and language by focusing on the uncanny figure of the mother in psychoanalysis, photography, and literature and contends that the concept of human birth is represented through mechanical repetition and technological modes of reproduction rather than as a natural event.
Brief description: Elissa Marder is Associate Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Emory University and Distinguished International Faculty Fellow at the London Graduate School. Her most recent book is Dead Time: Temporal Disorders in the Wake of Modernity (Baudelaire and Flaubert).
Review Quotes: The protracted genesis of Marder's work attests to the rigour of the critical concepts developed, as well as the breadth and richness of analysis that readers can find advanced therein.-- "The British Society for Literature and Science"