... and the immune system's role in defining it. In her influential essay The Biopolitics of Postmodern Bodies. Determinations of Self in Immune System Discourses Donna Haraway states that 'the immune system is an elaborate icon for principal systems of symbolic and material "difference" in late capitalism. Preeminently a ... She further argues that it is a historically specific terrain, an iconic mythic object in high – technology culture and a subject of clinical research (Haraway: 1993, 200-201). The problem with the self/non-self model of the immune system is that it is so simple. The ...

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... body is placed at the center of the center of the mapping of the subject's place in the world, established through sexuality, class, sex, race, gender and so on. As Donna Haraway argues: "bodies are maps of power and identity". The surfaces of the body are as important as they are unstable; inside and out or not, male or female or not ... ...

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