Fragile identities / Susanne Witzgall and Kerstin Stakemeier, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Witzgall, Susanne, editor.

Stakemeier, Kerstin, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity (Psychology) in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Zürich, [Switzerland] ; Berlin, [Germany] : diaphanes, 2016.

Summary:

What is the current state of the subject and what about the status of its self-image?In contemporary discourses we encounter more and more "fragile identities," in artistic works as well as in scientific theories, and those are today much less referring to a critique of the concept of identity, but much rather to the relationship those concepts.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Editors' Preface

Fragile Identities and the Question of Cohabitation: Introduction I / Susanne Witzgall

Digital Sidekicks: Introduction II / Kerstin Stakemeier

Fragile Identities: The Self between Normality and Pathology / Stephen Frosh

Meticulous Insanity / Emily Wardill

"Sociality is the most fundamental part of what we are". In conversation with Paul Broks, Stephen Frosh and Emily Wardill

"I don't really have an identity other than within a context". In conversation with Terre Thaemlitz

Intense Proximity: Concerning the Disappearance of Distance / Okwui Enwezor

"Fragility is the only thing I really know about me" / Claire Denis

Project Class Claire Denis

Different Accounts / Sarah Rifky

"We don't feel fragile, but maybe tomorrow...". In conversation with Claire Denis, Okwui Enwezor and Sarah Rifky

Strangers, Zombies and Disoriented Identity in the Post-Apartheid City / Gareth A. Jones

The Guelph-Wellington Rural-Urban Program. A Case Study in Urban Identity Politics / Miguel Robles-Durán

Nomadic Subjects / Rosi Braidotti

"Every human body is an old civilization". In conversation with Emine Sevgi Özdamar and Christian Kravagna

Project Class Tobias Zielony

The Production of Subjectivity / Maurizio Lazzarato

Munich, 10.01.2014 / Jana Euler

Expropriation and Uselessness. Fragile Identities / Kerstin Stakemeier

Rosebud/Raking Light / James Richards

The Digital Self and the Subject Under Strain. Artistic Self-Representation and the Quest for a New Concept of Subjectivity / Susanne Witzgall

"Anonymous", Imageboards, Memes: Early 21st Century ePunk / Florian Cramer

The Authors

Photo Credits

Colophon.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 25, 2017).

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

3-03734-630-2

OCLC:

983731786