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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2018.0246

H. Randell-Moon

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Surekha Davies, Renaissance Ethnography and the Invention of the Human: New Worlds, Maps and Monsters 苏雷卡·戴维斯，《文艺复兴时期人种学与人类的发明:新世界、地图和怪物》

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/SOMA.2018.0255

Erling Sandmo

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2018.0245

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Visual Rhetorics and the Seductions of the Monstrous: Some Precautionary Observations 视觉修辞学和怪物的诱惑:一些预防性观察

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/SOMA.2018.0248

M. Shildrick

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Promises of Non/Living Monsters and Uncontainable Life 非/活怪物和无法控制的生命的承诺

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/SOMA.2018.0252

M. Radomska

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Figure 20 The Jersey DevilFigure 32 The Woman-Eating Drain 图20泽西恶魔图32女人吃下水道

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/SOMA.2018.0251

E. Nielsen

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Anna Tsing, Heather Swanson, Elaine Gan and Nils Bubandt (eds), Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene Anna Qing，Heather Swanson，Elaine Gan和Nils Bubandt（编辑），《生活在受损星球上的艺术：人类世的幽灵和怪物》

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/SOMA.2018.0256

D. McCormack

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/soma.2018.0259

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(The promise of) Monstrous Kinship? Queer Reproduction and the Somatechnics of Sexual and Racial Difference (承诺)怪物亲属?酷儿生殖与性别和种族差异的身体技术

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/SOMA.2018.0250

Ulrika Dahl

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Monster Talk: A Virtual Roundtable with Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick and Jeffrey Weinstock 怪物谈话:与Mark Bould, Liv Bugge, Surekha Davies, Margrit Shildrick和Jeffrey Weinstock的虚拟圆桌会议

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Somatechnics Pub Date : 2018-09-01 DOI: 10.3366/SOMA.2018.0254

D. McCormack

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