... lesbian photography embodiment reading ...

... fandom embodied reading Village Voice ...

... Johnston had a devoted readership who came to experience reading as an embodied act in consuming her Village Voice column and even imitating her style and look. This chapter analyzes fan mail from these readers, both that sent directly to Johnston and those letters published in the Village...

...Preface In almost all photographs of Jill Johnston, including those on the covers of her books, she leans. The preface argues this lean is a queer lesbian lean that remixes codes of gender and definitions of authority. lesbian photography embodiment reading ...

... approach to the materiality of embodiment that is critically alert to the ways in which certain disciplinary ways of knowing have been constructed as less mediated access to that materiality than others. In a revaluation of marginalized body-knowledges, it reads Audre Lorde’s “Uses of the Erotic...

... This chapter examines Frederick Douglass embodying “ART” and “FACTS.” Abolitionist James McCune Smith considers whether Douglass receives his intellect from his black mother, Harriet Bailey, or unknown white father. Bailey is construed as “the only one of all the slaves and colored people...

... Chapter 5 expands on the dissonance between Asian labors and Asian bodies through a close reading of Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding (2019), a game produced by Japanese developers but with a mostly white cast and set in a fictional United States. This close reading sheds light on the game’s...

... of this series begins with the individual—in this case, the narrative authorial voice in “Sense”—and proceeds through a series that forms the major conceptual components of a “sense of arrival.” Ending with an explanatory reading of “archipelagic thought” in the essay “Archipelago,” the section introduces...

... Following Lynne Huffer’s work on queer feminism, this chapter centers the figure of the lesbian in order to develop a dyke ethics that engenders more nuanced thinking about both monogamy and embodiment. The chapter reads Alison Bechdel’s comic strip Dykes to Watch Out For to elaborate a “dyke...

... an understanding of the self as an embodied relation to the world. In his later philosophical work, he employs the image of flesh to name that which ties bodies and the world. Merleau-Ponty acknowledges the Christian echoes of his metaphors, which can be read as reinterpretations of the “carnal” strand...

... This chapter explores the polarized reception of mid-1960s free jazz by focusing on its most instantly recognizable timbral gesture: the “saxophonic scream.” Music critics’ reactions to John Coltrane’s iconic use of the saxophonic scream variously read it as hysterical noise or as transcendent...

... The intersection of German Idealism and psychoanalysis in Žižek’s philosophy seems to embody his ambiguous status: on the one hand the paradigm of philosophical system—Hegel; on the other the deconstruction of the system and the paradigm of anti-philosophy—Lacan. This essay critically questions...

... relations, forms of knowledge, and embodied dispositions in line with postcolonial hierarchies. Referring to a leadership project for Tsáchila women, the chapter documents how the fuzzy category “indigenous women” reproduced colonial tropes about abject subalterns with low self-esteem. Reading this policy...

... released an autobiography in the 1950s to announce her embrace of femininity and heterosexuality. Ziegler reads Bentley’s announcement of heteronormativity through “sissy play”—a type of BDSM role play in which a male embodies hyperfeminine attributes. Although Bentley did not identify as male, Ziegler...

... as a site of knowledge and recognition. Inspired by Edouard Glissant, the author reads relational poetics in four artworks—Marie Richeux’s novel Climats de France, Amina Menia’s video art piece A Peculiar Family Album, Stéphane Couturier’s photographic and video work, and Hamid Rahiche’s performance...

... the sphere of embodiment that transsexuality bears on—where “embodiment” signals the social dimension of signification that any body partakes in. Marxist theory reification identity embodiment To refuse the gender binary is a criminal act, and trans antagonism—a violence that manifests along...

... This chapter offers a close and unique reading of the media theory of Nakai Masakazu, a leftist theorist active from the 1930s with some connections to the Kyoto school. Drawing on German philosophy, the chapter creates a highly corporeal theory of cinematic spectatorship, a sophisticated...

... of this series begins with the individual—in this case, the narrative authorial voice in “Sense”—and proceeds through a series that forms the major conceptual components of a “sense of arrival.” Ending with an explanatory reading of “archipelagic thought” in the essay “Archipelago,” the section introduces...

... of this series begins with the individual—in this case, the narrative authorial voice in “Sense”—and proceeds through a series that forms the major conceptual components of a “sense of arrival.” Ending with an explanatory reading of “archipelagic thought” in the essay “Archipelago,” the section introduces...