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<p>This essay reviews Banu Bargu’s <i>Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal</i> (2024), focusing on the role of phenomenology in the book’s articulation of global critical theory. I argue that <i>Disembodiment</i> offers a vital contribution to recent efforts to reclaim phenomenology as a radical form of critique. In my brief reflection, I consider the book’s engagement with the phenomenological problem of lived experience, its critical readings of the work of Helmuth Plessner and Frantz Fanon, and its attempt to locate the somatic history of suffering at the heart of the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory, especially as expressed in Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectics. At the end of the essay, I sketch three directions for further inquiry opened up by <i>Disembodiment</i>, those pertaining to the questions of space, political consciousness, and teleology.</p>

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Phenomenology of Disembodiment

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    2026年7月6日

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  • Key MacFarlane

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This essay reviews Banu Bargu’s Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (2024), focusing on the role of phenomenology in the book’s articulation of global critical theory. I argue that Disembodiment offers a vital contribution to recent efforts to reclaim phenomenology as a radical form of critique. In my brief reflection, I consider the book’s engagement with the phenomenological problem of lived experience, its critical readings of the work of Helmuth Plessner and Frantz Fanon, and its attempt to locate the somatic history of suffering at the heart of the Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory, especially as expressed in Theodor W. Adorno’s negative dialectics. At the end of the essay, I sketch three directions for further inquiry opened up by Disembodiment, those pertaining to the questions of space, political consciousness, and teleology.