Poetics of deconstruction : on the threshold of differences / Lynn Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Lynn, 1968- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Poetics.

Deconstruction.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (225 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Summary:

"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 (Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray, Donna Haraway, Cary Wolfe) 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 04, 2020).

ISBN:

9781350128620

1350128627

9781350128613

1350128619

9781350128606

1350128600

OCLC:

1193117711