Tracking Heroin Chic: The Abject Body Reconfigures the Rational Argument

Abstract

AbstractA recent fashion trend known as "heroin chic" challenges conventional modes of argumentation. Its popularization of abject, emaciated bodies presents an alternative to a logic of rationalism that grounds traditional argumentation. By foregrounding corporeal performativity as a form of argument, the heroin chic body reformulates what it means to argue.