Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises.
Explores the question of what is life, and how invocations of life itself can join and divide, horrify and amaze, and may have the potential to inspire a future politics in a world beset by crises.
Studies a variety of representations of lobotomy to offer a rhetorical history of one of the most infamous procedures in the history of medicine. Johnson employs previously abandoned texts - science fiction, horror, political polemics, and conspiracy theory - to show how lobotomy's entanglement with social and political narratives contributed to a powerful image of the operation that still persists.
