Devouring InstitutionsMichael Hardin Essays by 13 authors, including Robert Mazzola, Carol Siegel, and Svetlana Mintcheva. Sections include "Writing between Madness and Paralysis," "Building the Body of Desires," "Attacking Language" and "Post-Plagiarism." With an introduction by the editor and a primary and secondary bibliography of Acker's work. . |
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... social and political codifications that impinge upon them in every social and sex- ual interaction " ( 153 ) . This judgment entails that erotic love will no longer seem absolute when one reaches maturity and that maturity pre- cludes ...
... social and political codifications that impinge upon them in every social and sex- ual interaction " ( 153 ) . This judgment entails that erotic love will no longer seem absolute when one reaches maturity and that maturity pre- cludes ...
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... social conditions . Acker's efforts to escape the strictures of the social , owning self , hesitate at the moment when she remembers her gendered identity and the material consequences of that impulse for woman . Thus , Acker's vision ...
... social conditions . Acker's efforts to escape the strictures of the social , owning self , hesitate at the moment when she remembers her gendered identity and the material consequences of that impulse for woman . Thus , Acker's vision ...
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... social life . For example , in an earlier essay on the film Paris Is Burning , Butler argues that it is only when experiencing a performance " installs the ambivalence of that ' performance ' as related to our own " that we the audience ...
... social life . For example , in an earlier essay on the film Paris Is Burning , Butler argues that it is only when experiencing a performance " installs the ambivalence of that ' performance ' as related to our own " that we the audience ...
Contents
The Paralyzing Tensions of Radical Art in a | 47 |
BUILDING | 67 |
A Kaleidoscopic | 85 |
Copyright | |
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