Carnal Knowledge

Estelle Barrett is Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University. She is the author of Kristeva Reframed:Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts (2011) and is co-editor, with Barbara Bolt, of Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (2007), both I.B.Tauris. Her reviews and articles have appeared in such publications as Text, Social Semiotics, Double Dialogues and the Journal of Visual Arts Practice. Barbara Bolt is Associate Professor in the School of Art at the Victorian College of the Arts and the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. She is a practising artist and art theorist. Her publications include Art Beyond Representation: The Performative Power of the Image (2004) and Heidegger Reframed: Interpreting Key Thinkers for the Arts (2011), both I.B.Tauris. She is also co-editor of Practice as Research: Approaches to Creative Arts Enquiry (I.B.Tauris, 2007) with Estelle Barrett, and of Sensorium: Aesthetics, Art, Life (2007) with Felicity Coleman, Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements ForewordNotes on ContributorsIntroductionTowards a “New Materialism” Through the Arts Barbara BoltDISCOURSE, AFFECT AND MATERIAL INTERVENTIONSChapter 1 From Double Navel to Particle-Sign: Towards the A-Signifying Work of Painting Katve-Kaisa KontturiChapter 2 Metaphors of the Mind: Art Forms as Modes of Thinking and Ways of BeingDanielle BoutetChapter 3 Æffect: Initiating Heuristic life Jondi KeaneChapter 4 Materiality, Affect, and the Aesthetic Image Estelle BarrettTHE MATTER OF FILMChapter 5The Matter of Film: Decasia and Lyrical Nitrate Nicholas Chare and Liz WatkinsChapter 6Recovering the Hidden through Found-footage Films Dirk de BruynChapter 7Moments of Affection: Jayce Salloum’s everything and nothing and the Thresholds of Testimonial Video Ilona HongistoCARNAL INSISTENCEChapter 8 In the Name of the Author: Towards a Materialist Understanding of Literary Authorship Kaisa KurikkaChapter 9 The Sublime: Process and Mediation Liza McCoshChapter 10 Fashion as an Embodied Artform Llewellyn NegrinMATERIALITY THE VIRTUAL AND THE REALChapter 11 Material-Character Animation: Experiments in Life-like Translucency Cathryn VasseleuChapter 12 Instrumental Vision Rose WoodcockChapter 13 Real Immateriality in Australian Indigenous Art Brian MartinChapter 14 The Primacy of Movement: Intermediality, Affect, and Biopolitics in Tero Saarinen’s Hunt Jussi Parikka and Milla TiainenNotes ReferencesIndex

Carnal Knowledge is a new materialist collection, not only because it brings together new materialist work, but also because it consistently and constantly reflects on what is new about new materialisms (it does not apply conceptual tools such as affect, but traverses bodies of thought). Iris van der Tuin, Women's Studies International Forum