Where Does A Body Begin? (3rd Edition) by Meltdown Your Books

****Pre-order, shipping in late October****

As one of our most beloved and bestselling books, we have committed to a new third edition of this book—in fact, this book is likely to be the first book that we are entering into our permanent catalogue.

Where Does A Body Begin? (2023) was authored by an anonymous icon of the instagram underground, "MeltdownYourBooks", who just so happens to be doing a Ph.D in Evolutionary Biology, with a focus on Cybernetics, Mathematical modelling, and so on. As a lot of the best books do, this text stems from the author's discontents with biology, as informed by her experiences spending years sitting directly on the intersection between pharmaceutical companies and educational institutions, whether that it be the exclusion of menstruating bodies from studies, or whether it be way the study of biology has changed due to economic or funding pressures. To close the circle, the book also takes into consideration, not only what capital does to our institutions, or our education, or our knowledge of bodies, but what does capital do to our bodies?

DETAILS: 
Authored by Meltdown Your Books 
Edited by Nicholas E. Powers
Illustrated by Rachel Lillim
CAT #BECOMING003c
ISBN: 978-9925-8118-4-7 (Print)
ISBN: 978-9925-8118-5-4 (Digital)
A6, Softcover, 164 pages 
Third Edition, October 2025