Anti-Electra

The Radical Totem of the Girl

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Av Elisabeth von Samsonow, Elisabeth Von Samsonow

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A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra is a philosophy of “the girl” as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity. Elisabeth von Samsonow asserts that focusing on the girl’s escape from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and art.Presenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, Anti-Electra argues that technology today encompasses Electra’s gadgets and toys. According to von Samsonow, satellite drive technologies such as wireless telephones, WLAN, and GPS echo the “preoedipal constellation” that the girl specializes in. And with the help of the girl, the cartography of overlapping zones between humankind and animals, as well as between humankind and apparatuses, is redesigned through what the book holds as a “radical totemism.” Anti-Electra ultimately offers a new view on gender, the contemporary world dyed by symbolic girlism, and the (universal) girl in critical dialogue with media, ecology, and society.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-06-11
Mått127 x 203 x 25 mm
Vikt306 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieUnivocal
Antal sidor216
FörlagUniversity of Minnesota Press
ISBN9781517907136
ÖversättareFricek, Anita, Zepke, Stephen

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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