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... of a volitional, rational place to demonstrate how difficult creative networks can give rise to strange processes of what she calls “trans-subjectivity.” The author accounts for situated styles of collaborative practice wherein the radicalized subject can creatively, unexpectedly, and continuously develop beyond...

... “relegate the embodied voice to a service role of rendering audible the coherent thought.” Similarly, for trans-gender individuals undergoing vocal change, media technologies of vocality like the telephone and the answering machine—the subject of this article—do more than render subjects audible. Through...

..., adhere to class-privileged, white, and straight trans people who have the ability and desire to access medical transition. Malatino argues that “the shape[s] of most trans lives [don't] mimic the progressive teleological contours of such narratives. . . . The number of trans subjects who live in any kind...

..., whistling sound swells and fades in the background. This scene establishes Tina's growing, heady attraction to Vore through the very discovery of Vore's gender ambiguity or suspected transness and their similarity in terms of appearance. Is Vore a trans man? A nonbinary person? A woman who presents...

...Fiona I. B. Ngô This essay explores how visibility and sight, but also invisibility and blindness, inform the production of knowledge about subjectivity and subjection in critical refugee studies. I consider Ekleipsis , by the Vietnamese American filmmaker Tran T. Kim-Trang from the Blindness...

...Jon Heggestad Abstract The 1994 film Junior (dir. Ivan Reitman), starring Arnold Schwarzenegger as the world's first pregnant man, has been the subject of much scholarly debate since its initial release. Specifically, feminist critiques have both called attention to the film's androcentric...

... the bureaucratic and embodied processes that are intimately intertwined with the metaphor of the folder. It examines the way in which documents reduce queer and trans bodies to data, and the deep file hierarchies and records that are deliberately mobilized to disorient and remove a sense of subjectivity, a sense...

... and institutions.”53 Not unlike the chorus invented in fifth-­century Athenian theater as a mirror to represent the people to themselves,54 Bookchin’s pieces highlight multiplicity and “trans-­subjectivity,” in Durham’s charac- terization, and therefore express a utopian vision quite different from...

... footage, and the method such footage demands in order to be apprehended, calls for more capacious theoretical foundations for imagining historically trans and queer of color subjects besides those tethered to neoliberal capitalist regimes. The unspectacular, leisurely, and mundane quotidian scenes across...

... people and for others. In previous sections, I explored how A Fantastic Woman bucks expectations of trans visibility through camera techniques and mirror motifs. In this section, I delve further “out of sight” and into the interior, as the film does in inhabiting Marina's subjectivity. This prompts...

... elaborates on Gender as a Scopic System 5 his argument that inasmuch as the immediate purpose of trans- sexuality is to make real the subject s true gender on the body, . . . visual media . . . promise (like transition itself) to make visible that which begins as imperceptible. 12 The image simultaneously...

... the order of the subject, and the matter of ontology, are what make black trans women, in particular, vulnerable to violence? In this way, trans negativity turns against liberal (white) transgender projects about visibility, accessibility, and progressivism to expose how these political logics...

... Santana shows a legitimate skepticism toward the prospect of thinking (even if critically) about travestis as death-bound subjects. In the words of Silva Santana: “Despite the fact that it is fundamental to honor the dead by demanding justice, there is a risk that trans women, especially black trans women...

... to occupy in the fullest sense what was once, in the cinematic technology, the place of the camera but is now, in the SQUID apparatus, the embodied perspective of another human subject. He or she can- not only see, but be in the place of another, a spectatorial trans- portation that puts one...

... with a writer's work. To clarify further, let us say this: with specialization being all the rage today, cinema professionals assume that a writer's work consists simply of getting speech down in writing, that is, of conjuring up words and thereby inventing “situations,” which is their name for subject matter...

... movement with effecting a “desexualization” of the subject, thereby displacing sexuality as the central political issue. See, for example, Michel Foucault, Power/ Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1 977, ed. Colin Gordon, trans. Colin Gordon, Leo Marshall, John...

... impoverishes intimate relationships — in psycho- analytic theory arguably everyone is perverse. I contest that within this framework, exhibitionism productively manifests the subject’s irreducible heteronomy (its formation by and in the outside), a dynamic that is the foundation of intersubjectivity...

... University Press 103 104  •  Camera Obscura life, Chow identifies a rise in self-­referentiality, as in her analysis of Michel Foucault and his discussion of the self-­referential disloca- tions that constitute the modern subject. Or when she discusses modern literature in terms of its incessant...

... of the film, following Laffont’s reading from Theorie d’Ensem6le. We see the laughing Laffont seated on the Other side of the attic room-a mirror image of the first laugh-and her laughter seems to be motivated by the Tel Quel text. (The work of Tel Quel is, for some people, a subject of laughter...

... reckonings. Robert Bresson’ The photograph seems the paradigmatic image. And the image is cur- rently the paradigm of the work of art, conceived of as the subjective, the intentional, from two points of view which converge in our so- phisticated...