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She Is Inseminating

Thanatopolitics and Reproduction in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)
In: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 149–79
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Part of Queer Post-Cinema Containing:
Introduction
Autoimmunity and Sexual Difference in Todd Haynes’s Films Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, Poison, and Safe
Affective-Political Work with Documents: Sharon Hayes and Yael Bartana
Intense Play with Light and Sound: Reading Su Friedrich’s Seeing Red (2005) together with Walter Benjamin’s and Gilles Deleuze’s Philosophies of Technology
The iPhone as a Medium of Queer Aesthetics and Fluid Subjectivity: Charlie Prodger’s Bridgit
She Is Inseminating: Thanatopolitics and Reproduction in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)
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Title
She Is Inseminating
Subtitle
Thanatopolitics and Reproduction in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)
Author(s)
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-32_5
Is Part Of
Queer Post-Cinema
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
6 May 2025
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© by the author(s)
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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Language
en-GB
page start
149
page end
179
Source
Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 149–79

Publication scheduled for 6 May 2025

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Cite as: Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, ‘She Is Inseminating: Thanatopolitics and Reproduction in Claire Denis’s Science Fiction Film High Life (2018)’, in Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky, Queer Post-Cinema: Reinventing Resistance, Cultural Inquiry, 32 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2025), pp. 149-79 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-32_5>