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“Das System ist nahezu geschlossen, nahezu,

denn an den Rändern des Diskurses taucht das

Monströse auf, das nicht in der Verschmelzung

mit der Technik lauert, sondern auf der

menschlichen Sterblichkeit beruht”²² (Wenner 2002: 100).

“Embodiment is a concept in constant motion”

(Harris 2016).

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak states in an interview: “[…] if one really thinks of the body as such, there is no possible outline of the body as such. I think that's about what I would say. There are thinkings of the systematicity of the body, there are value codings of the body. The body, as such, cannot be thought, and I certainly cannot approach it” (Spivak 1989: 149). This has to be seen not as a limitation to the engagement with the issue, with the body, but rather as a delimitation of any engagement. If the body cannot be thought, then what I am aiming to do in this study is to look at individual, societal, and medical “narrations and materialities,” connected to experiences and theoretical encounters with bodies and embodiment. With the awareness of the body as not “thinkable” in Spivak’s terms, the motivation of this study is to find innovative ways of understanding the multi-layered experienced and theorized locality of women’s bodies in the field of biomedicine. Using visual data, artwork, practice, and written text, in addition to the verbal data collected during the course of this project, provides insights into the discursive relatedness of different ideas which arise in public reflections and (inter-) disciplinary discussions. I will begin the following section by looking at exemplary spaces of public reflections in media coverage and art related to biomedical developments before turning my attention to disciplinary discussions.