Immaterial bodies: affect, embodiment, mediation

"Immaterial bodies: affect, embodiment, mediation." Information, Communication & Society, 17(5), pp. 651–652

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Patricia MacCormack is Reader in English, Communication, Film and Media at Anglia Ruskin University, Cambridge. She has published extensively on Guattari, Blanchot, Serres, Irigaray, queer theory, teratology, body modification, posthuman theory, animal rights and horror film. Her work includes ‘Inhuman Ecstasy’ (Angelaki), ‘Becoming-Vulva’ (New Formations) ‘The Great Ephemeral Tattooed Skin’ (Body and Society) ‘Necrosexuality’ (Queering the Non/Human) ‘Unnatural Alliances’ (Deleuze and Queer Theory) ‘Vitalistic FeminEthics’ (Deleuze and Law) and ‘Cinemasochism: Time, Space and Submission’ (The Afterimage of Gilles Deleuze's Film Philosophy). She is the author of Cinesexuality (Ashgate 2008) and the co-editor of The Schizoanalysis of Cinema. Her most recent book is Posthuman Ethics (Ashgate 2012). She is editing the forthcoming collection The Animal Catalyst (Continuum 2014).