| Description |
xiv, 369 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Contents |
A Word of Warning / Sue Golding -- Curiosity -- Curiosity, fascination: time and speed / Andrew Benjamin -- Curiosity / Sue Golding -- Mr madam pamphlets 1-4: curiosity is a flower / Pascal Brannan -- Our correspondent / Anthony Burke -- Noise -- Manifesto for the dada of the cyborg-embrio / Hans A. Scheirl -- In the language of vampire speak: overhearing our own voices / Allucquere Rosanne Stone -- Automatic rap / Chila Kumari Burman -- Spiritual / Anthony Burke -- Cruelty -- What remains at a crucifixion: Nietzsche/Bacon / Christopher Fynsk -- "O.K." series / Anthony Burke -- Resting / Steven Berkoff -- Figuring the vampire: death, desire, and the image / Carolyn Brown -- Appetite -- The birth of breasts / Jean-Luc Nancy -- Slavery/sublimity / Adrian Rifkin -- The syllabus is the message / Gad Horowitz -- Lush, but no moon / Sky Gilbert -- My mother liked to fuck / Joan Nestle -- Drinking song / Anthony Burke -- Skin -- Miss tissue and the re-invention of the pussy-tongue (that's cock for all you unenlightened children) / AJAMU -- Skin-flicks / Zachary I. Nataf -- Scales and eyes: 'race' making difference / Paul Gilroy -- Revenge / Sue Golding -- The flemish school / Catherine Opie -- Letter to the editor / Anthony Burke -- Nomadism -- The floor would open / Paul Hallam -- Spatial disruptions / Doreen Massey -- The diasporic dance of body-enjoyment: slain flesh/metamorphosing body / Jelica Sumic-Riha -- Singing the blues in cyber-city / Arthur Kroker and Marilouise Kroker -- Old standard / Anthony Burke -- Contamination -- The white issue / Vron Ware -- On the names of god / Ernesto Laclau -- Requiem, act I: daddy missing / Kathy Acker -- Queer research; or, how to practise invention to the brink of intelligibility / William Haver -- Legend / Anthony Burke -- Dwelling -- Battle sites, mine dumps, and other spaces of perversity / Clive Van Den Berg -- Space, stone, and spirit: the meaning of place / Richard A. Etlin -- The delicate webs of subversion, community, friendship, and love / Jeffrey Weeks and Sue Golding -- Doing time in the bardo: a pornosophical essay / Shannon Bell -- Present / Pierre Gottfried Imhof -- Suburban manner / Anthony Burke |
| Summary |
"Sue Golding asks in her Word of Warning, what would happen to the so-called 'postmodern' if we were to stop sterilizing the wounds? If we were to take seriously political freedom; cultural revolution; fear; disease; trash; flesh; multiple ethics; homelessness; rhythm; violence; virtual bodies; computing sciences; boredom; anger; light; experimentation; art - and all the myriad joys and fears that come from a refusal to be comforted by the easy, neat, and clean? The short answer: we would be playing with fire." "The longer answer, in all its tactile rawness, spins out in the eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, and dwelling. These technologies stand, in a way, on their own; and yet are not fully resolved in and of themselves. But why only eight technologies? And why these eight, in particular? The thirty-three artists, philosophers, film-makers, writers, photographers, political militants, and 'pulp-theory' practitioners whose work (or life) has contributed to the re-thinking of 'otherness' to which this book bears witness throw out a few clues."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Culture |
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Difference (Philosophy) |
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Difference (Psychology) |
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Identity (Psychology) |
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Postmodernism |
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Multi-User |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Culture.
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Difference (Philosophy)
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Difference (Psychology)
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Identity (Psychology)
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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| Author |
Golding, Sue.
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| LC no. |
96048848 |
| ISBN |
0415145791 (pb : alk. paper) |
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0415145805 (hb : alk. paper) |
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