This paper examines cancer through the lens of abjection. While cancer can be understood as an abject lifeform, we explore what we name the abject ontologies created through both cancer detection technologies/practices and cancer treatment, specifically the drug combination Adriamycin and Cytoxan. We ask: what are the abject ontologies produced through living with and living on from cancer diagnosis and treatment? Our concern is to map how cancer undoes our supposedly stable categories inherited from modernist logic, challenges our very ideas of what it means to be human, and demands an ethical reorientation of public cancer discourse.

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卑鄙的本体：癌症和“活着”

这篇论文通过自卑的视角来审视癌症。虽然癌症可以被理解为一种卑鄙的生命形式，但我们探索了通过癌症检测技术/实践和癌症治疗创建的卑鄙本体，特别是阿霉素和 Cytoxan 的药物组合。我们要问：与癌症诊断和治疗共存和赖以生存的卑鄙本体是什么？我们关注的是描绘癌症如何破坏我们从现代主义逻辑继承而来的所谓稳定类别，挑战我们对人类意味着什么的想法，并要求对公共癌症话语进行伦理重新定位。