1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996202222703316

Autore

Michael Mike

Titolo

Reconnecting culture, technology and nature [[electronic resource] ] : from society to heterogeneity

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Hoboken, : Taylor and Francis, 2012

ISBN

1-134-63521-4

1-280-32851-7

0-203-17135-7

0-203-13533-4

9780203171357

9786610328512

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (186 p.)

Collana

International Library of Sociology

Disciplina

306.01

306.46

Soggetti

Social aspects

Sociological aspects

Technology

Technology - Social aspects

Social Change

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents

Sommario/riassunto

In this exciting new book, Mike Michael uses case studies of mundane technologies such as the walking boot, the car and the TV remote control to question some of the fundamental dichotomies through which we make sense of the world. Drawing on the insights of Bruno Latour, Donna Haraway and Michel Serres, the author elaborates an innovative methodology through which new hybrid objects of study are creatively constructed, tracing the ways in which the cultural, the



natural and the technological interweave in the production of order and disorder. This book critically engages with and draws connec

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996336703103316

Titolo

Himalayan and Central Asian studies : journal of Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation, 1997-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Soggetti

Periodicals.

Himalaya Mountains Region Periodicals

Asia, Central Periodicals

Central Asia

Himalaya Mountains Region

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

Title from cover.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971023703321

Autore

Schneider Rebecca

Titolo

The explicit body in performance / / Rebecca Schneider

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1997

ISBN

1-134-87692-0

1-280-32159-8

0-203-42107-8

1-134-87693-9

0-415-09025-3

Edizione

[1st edition]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 pages)

Disciplina

704.9428

Soggetti

Feminism and the arts

Women in art

Performance art

Arts, Modern - 20th century

Women artists - Psychology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; The Explicit Body in Performance; Copyright; Contents; List of plates; Acknowledgments; Introduction; GHOST OF THE AVANT-GARDE; DESIRE AND THE SATIATE BODY; TWISTING THE MAP; 1 Binary terror and the body made explicit; RE-VAMPING THE GHOSTS OF MODERNISM; BESIDE HERSELF: POSTMODERN ARTISTS AND MODERN WHORES; EYE/BODY: CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN BESIDE HERSELF; 2 Logic of the twister, eye of the storm; IMPASSE: UNNATURAL ACTS; TWISTER: LOOKING INTO LOOKING OUT; 3 Permission to see; GENDER IN PERSPECTIVE: HAVE WE REALLY GONE BEYOND?; REFUSAL TO VANISH

GHOSTLY HORRORS: LOOKING AT THE PAST, SEEING THROUGH THE BODY4 The secret's eye; NO ACCIDENT: COMMODITY BODIES; EMBODYING DISEMBODIMENT; RADICAL SEX ACTIVISM, SATIABILITY, AND THE COMMODITY; TWO-WAY STREETWALKERS; EXPLOSIVE LITERALITY; LITERAL SHROUDS AND DREAMSCAPE RE-INTERMENTS; 5 After us the savage goddess; SEEING BACK THROUGH; PRIMITIVE



TECHNIQUES; DARK CONTINENCE: READING THE THRALL AND THE THREAT; DARK INCONTINENCE: UBU ROJ AND SAVAGE PRIMITMSM; DADA'S BIG DRUM: PRIMITIVISM AND THE PERFORMATIVE; HARD PRIMITMSM, BASE MATTER, AND THE BLIND SPOT; LITERAL PRIMITIVES; 6 Seeing the big show

FIRST, A STORY ABOUT DOUBT THAT INCLUDES AREVE RBERATIONWHITE NOSTALGIA, AUTHENTICITY, AND THE SPLIT SUBJECT; SPIDER WOMAN: THE EARLY DAYS; VIGILANT REPETITIONS, THE COMIC TURN, AND COUNTER-MIMICRY; THE IRRUPTION OF ""REAL STUFF"" AND THE POLITIC OF SACRALITY; THE IRRUPTION OF GRANDMOTHERS AND THE REALITY OF DREAMS; Epilog: returning from the dead; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Sommario/riassunto

The Explicit Body in Performance interrogates the avant-garde precedents and theoretical terrain that combined to produce feminist performance art. Among the many artists discussed are: * Carolle Schneemann * Annie Sprinkle * Karen Finley * Robbie McCauley * Ana Mendieta * Ann Magnuson * Sandra Bernhard * Spiderwoman Rebecca Schneider tackles topics ranging across the 'post-porn modernist movement', New Right censorship, commodity fetishism, perspectival vision, and primitivism. Employing diverse critical theories from Benjamin to Lacan to postcolon