ABSTRACT Accounts of suicide are often framed through a narrative of prevention, by researchers and the public alike. Such (re)presentations of suicide are illustrative of an unquestioned understanding that suicide must be prevented, while the grounds, consequences, and effects of such framing remain uninterrogated. In the prevention narrative, life is the natural and normal state against which death is chosen, yet, simultaneously death is constituted as a non-choice in that it is a choice against the natural. In its collective repetition, life is constituted as a natural characteristic of bodies, which means that it is read and lived as a state that all people are by nature individually orientated towards. As such, prevention is effectively instated as the only possible response to suicide. In this article, I propose a reading of suicide through somatechnics to enquire into some of the ways in which the prevention narrative governs what we know about suicide and how it is lived. In doing so, I aim to destabilise the logic of life to explore how certain bodies and ways of knowing are rendered (un)intelligible.

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生命的逻辑：通过躯体技术思考自杀

摘要 研究人员和公众经常通过预防叙述来描述自杀。这种对自杀的（重新）表现说明了一种毋庸置疑的理解，即必须防止自杀，而这种框架的理由、后果和影响仍然没有受到质疑。在预防叙事中，生命是选择死亡的自然和正常状态，但同时死亡被构成为非选择，因为它是对自然的选择。在它的集体重复中，生命被构成为身体的一种自然特征，这意味着它被阅读和生活为一种所有人天生就各自面向的状态。因此，预防被有效地确立为对自杀唯一可能的反应。在本文中，我建议通过躯体技术阅读自杀，以探究预防叙述控制我们对自杀的了解以及如何生活的一些方式。在这样做的过程中，我的目标是破坏生命的逻辑，以探索某些身体和认识方式是如何变得（无法）理解的。