Little vast rooms of undoing exploring identity and embodiment through public toilet spaces

Abstract

Little Vast Rooms of Undoing explores the relationship between identity and embodiment in public toilet spaces. Introduction: Being (Beyond) Oneself/ Part I: The Dis-Embodiment of Identity/ 1. Homo Clausus and the Western Philosophical Tradition/ 2. Homines Aperti and Post-Structuralism/ 3. Corpus Infinitum and Posthumanism/ Part II: Individuating the Communal/ 4. The History of Western Public Toilets since the Fifteenth Century/ Part III: Theory as Practice/ 5. Homo Clausus and The Triadic Intra-Action Order/6. Homines Aperti and Matters of Care/ 7. Corpus Infinitum and the Materiality of Possibility/ Part IV: Entangling Ethics/ 8. Toward a New Ethics of Being/ 9. Epilogue: ‘and in a sense/ Works Cited/ Index