Anti-Electra

Elisabeth von Samsonow is an artist, writer, curator, and professor of philosophical and historical anthropology at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. Two of her books have been translated into English: Transplants and Epidemic Subjects-Radical Ontology. Anita Fricek is an Australian artist based in Vienna. Stephen Zepke is an independent researcher and author of Sublime Art: Towards an Aesthetics of the Future.

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsPreface to the English Language EditionIntroduction1. Electra as Female “Oedipus”Positive Unrelatedness and ExogamyConstitutive Strangeness or Primary ExoticismSchizogamyXenological AnamnesisTotemistic “Objectification”2. Radical Totemism and AutomatismTheogenesis and the Twilight of MachinesTotem and XenocracyAnimal Mummy and the Apparatus-FunctionAnthropomorphization of the DeityApparatus or Weak Totem3. Totemism and Sculpture: Preliminaries to a Theory of SchizosomaMetabolism and Therapeutic SchizosomaPre-oedipality as a “Plastic Phase”Excursus: Plasma, Forming, SculptureThe Statue Delivering OraclesThe Two-Body DoctrineThe One and the ManySocial Sculpture4. The Labyrinth: General Theory of SchizosomaPasiphae’s CowThe Satellite5. The Four Pre-oedipal ObjectsFailing Equalization and the Emergence of the ComplexElectrificationAppendixIndex

"Anti-Electra constitutes an occasionally uncanny and always fascinating work, which advocates a constellational, schizogamous relationality. This intellectually engaging and witty book will be of interest to art historians, scholars with interests in media studies, and those who are open to be challenged by an exciting feminist revaluation of ancient myths and their relation to the present."-Identities