Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of...

Global Powers of Horror examines contemporary regimes of horror, into horror s intricacies, and into their deployment on and through human bodies and body parts. To track horror s work, what horror decomposes and, perhaps, recomposes, Debrix goes beyond the idea of the integrality and integrity of the human body and it brings the focus on parts, pieces, or fragments of bodies and lives. Looking at horror s production of bodily fragments, both against and beyond humanity, the book is also about horror s own attempt at re-forming or re-creating matter, from the perspective of...