Poetics of Deconstruction
On the Threshold of Differences
1st Edition
Published on 15. October 2020
224 pages
978-1-350-12861-3 (ISBN)
Description
In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses by which they might make sense other than under continued license of the subject that calls himself man. Drawing extensively from Jacques Derrida's philosophy in precise dialogue with feminist thought, animal studies and posthumanism, this book explores the vulnerability of the living as rooted in non-oppositional differences. From abjection to mourning, to the speculative and the performative, it reposes concepts and buzzwords seemingly at home in feminist theory, visual culture and the humanities more broadly. Stepping away from the carno-phallogocentric legacies of the signifier and the dialectic, Poetics of Deconstruction asks you to welcome nonpower into politics, always sexual but no longer anchored in sacrifice.
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Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
16 bw illus
ISBN-13
978-1-350-12861-3 (9781350128613)
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Book
04/2022
Bloomsbury Academic
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Person
Lynn Turner is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2017); co-author of Visual Cultures As... Recollection (2013); editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (2013) and an assistant editor of Derrida Today.
Content
Chapter 1: In the Beginnings: Introducing Poetics of Deconstruction
Chapter 2: The Animal Cure: inhaling the other in Dean Spanley
Chapter 3: Raising Animals: between the basement and the kennel in The Woman
Chapter 4: Speculations: gesture in Conceiving Ada and Absent Presence
Chapter 5: Outlaws: towards a posthumanist feminine in Dancer in the Dark
Chapter 6: 'Unfamiliar Unconscious': the performativity of Infinity Kisses
Chapter 7: In Lieu of Conclusion: White God
Chapter 2: The Animal Cure: inhaling the other in Dean Spanley
Chapter 3: Raising Animals: between the basement and the kennel in The Woman
Chapter 4: Speculations: gesture in Conceiving Ada and Absent Presence
Chapter 5: Outlaws: towards a posthumanist feminine in Dancer in the Dark
Chapter 6: 'Unfamiliar Unconscious': the performativity of Infinity Kisses
Chapter 7: In Lieu of Conclusion: White God
