Marta Segarra, researcher with the Centre Dona i Literatura and coordinator of the UNESCO Chair Women, Development and Cultures, has published the book Teoría de los cuerpos agujereados (Melusina, 2014). The volume is an essay on biopolitics focused on the image of the hole, and it analyzes diverse texts produced in different fields such as art, literature, cinema, mythology and scientific discourse. From the first weeks of life, anatomical holes are the elements over which experience and gradual self-knowledge of the body are organized, and they continue to exert a deep fascination throughout our lives. This is the idea that gives rise to this "theory of bodies full of holes", whose main contention is that every physical and imaginary hole (including those of "celestial bodies") is related to the holes of the human body.
