Bard College Berlin News
BCB faculty Sladja Blazan publishes article “Something Beyond Pain: Race, Gender, and Hyperempathy in Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower"
Blazan writes,
"As an intensification of this feeling into another, hyperempathy transforms the feeling into one’s own somatic experience. The condition is provoked as much by interpreting another as it is by experiencing; the corresponding feeling depends on one’s personal understanding of the situation. Rather than a social obligation or even a survival mechanism, hyperempathy emerges at the junction between two bodies and establishes a corporeal and simultaneously cognitive entanglement. The fact that this corporeality extends to all sentient beings only strengthens the materiality."
gender forum "is an online, peer reviewed academic journal dedicated to the discussion of gender issues. As an electronic journal, gender forum offers a free-of-charge platform for the discussion of gender-related topics in the fields of literary and cultural production, media and the arts as well as politics, the natural sciences, medicine, the law, religion and philosophy."
Post Date: 09-28-2022