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Shapes of Freedom: A Conversation with Elizabeth A. Povinelli
Kim Turcot DiFruscia
Kim Turcot DiFruscia: Liberalism’s “work” on the body is at the heart of your thought. In your book The Empire of Love (2006), you make a conceptual distinction between “carnality” and “corporeality.” How do you pose the sexual body through that distinction?
Elizabeth A. Povinelli: Empire of Love makes a distinction between “carnality” and “corporeality” for a set of analytical reasons: to try to understand materiality in late-liberal forms of power and to try to…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2014
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Philosophy, Bodies, Sexuality & Eroticism
Subjects
Liberalism, Love, Violence