Palm Press || Books

Dana Teen Lomax’s work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely “discourses” but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where “the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$.” Curren¢y is nothing less than an oppositional archeology of consumer culture as it reproduces its logics on and in our bodies-both personal and body-political-against a field of possibilities increasingly threatened by the privatization and colonization of the life-world. Writing a radical biopolitics-a “biopoethics”-would be that practice that articulates itself in resistant song, and, that in Lomax’s expanded field, of necessity also dances, in paroxysms full of both rage and desire.