1st Edition

The Eight Technologies of Otherness

By Dr Sue Golding, Sue Golding Copyright 1998
    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    384 Pages
    by Routledge

    The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and impatient necessity. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, and dwelling. But why only eight technologies? And why these eight, in particular? Included are thirty-three artists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, photographers, political militants, and 'pulp-theory' practitioners whose work (or life) has contributed to the re-thinking of 'otherness,' to which this book bears witness, throw out a few clues.

    Curiosity; Curiosity, fascination: time and speed; Curiosity; Mr Madam Pamphlets No. 1-4; Our Correspondent; Noise; Manifesto for the dada of the cyborg-embrio; In the language of vampire speak: overhering our own voices; Automatic rap; Spiritual; Cruelty; What remains at a crucifixion: nietzsche/bacon; O.K. series 1996; Resting; Figuring the vampire: death, desire, and the image; Appetite; The birth of breasts; Slavery/sublimity; The syllabus is the message; Lush, but no moon; My mother liked to fuck; Drinking Song; Skin; Miss tissue and the re-invention of the pussy-tongue (that's cock for all you unenlightened childeren); Skin-flicks; Scales and eyes: ‘race' making difference; Revenge; The Flemish School; Letter to the Editor; Nomadism; The floor would open; Spatial disruptions; The diasporic dance of body enjoyment: slain flesh/metamorphosing body; Singing the blues in cyber-city; Old Standard; Contamination; The white issue; On the names of god; Requiem act 1: daddy missing; Queer research; or, how to practise invention to the brink of intelligibility; Legend; Dwelling; Battle sites, mine dumps, and other spaces of perversity; Space, stone, and spirit: the meaning of place; The delicate webs of subversion, community, friendship and love; Doing time in the bardo; Present; Suburban Manner

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    Dr Sue Golding, Sue Golding