ABSTRACT
Teratology has referred to the study of monsters and monstrosity in all epistemic incarnations though most often in medicine. Monsters are only ever defined contingent with their time and place, they are never unto themselves. It could be argued that monstrosity is only a failure of or catalyst to affirm the human. Monsters formed from human matter are never entirely independent from the human form, their uncanny redistribution of human elements considered aberrant configurations. Braidotti defines monsters as: human beings who are born with congenital malformations of their bodily organism. To study monsters is to neither love them nor acknowledge teratological elements in every human. The political nature of monsters comes directly from the acts of naming and defining not the nature of the object named. Monsters appear' only when discourse about them appears, which is why discourse and speech are as urgent issues as the bodies and acts of those addressed.
