In Skin Theory, Cristina Visperas identifies how the captive body in the postwar era is positioned as the ideal test subject. She does so through a thorough interrogation of Albert Kligman’s primarily dermatological human experiments at Holmesburg Prison to argue that racial capture enables the research enterprise. Suturing conversations in Black studies, science and technology studies, and carceral studies, each chapter reads objects in relation to these experiments to argue that grounding its brutal procedures was a visual culture enabled by the figurative uses of the skin.
Articles by Patrick Michael Teed
Patrick Teed is a PhD Candidate in the Social and Political Thought Programme at York University. Broadly speaking, his research projects focus on abolitionist theory, critical historiographies of racial slavery, anti-Blackness and settler-colonialism, and science and technology studies. His available essays can be found in differences, CR: New Centennial Review, TOPIA, Lateral, and Rhizomes. He is currently guest editing a special issue of TOPIA focusing on critical theoretical approaches to care and cure.