Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure
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| Rating | : | 4.51 (807 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0275966755 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 216 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
NIKKI SULLIVAN is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University./e She has published articles on body modification, self-mutilation, and queer theory.
"Reading body writing" according to A Customer. Theory/postmodernism/post-structuralism often gets written off because of its supposed lack of ethical substance. This assumption has been wearing thin for many years now, and this book contributes considerably to a positive discussion of ethics beyond utilitarian, liberal, and even some communitarian models.Having said that, this book is not a
Shifting the focus away from what the tattooed body means to what it does, this work analyzes how it functions and what effects it produces. These theories are supplanted with this unique approach to notions of subjectivity, textuality, ethics, and pleasure and to the relationships among them.This examination of the role of the body in social, political, and ethical relations will attract scholars from a number of disciplines, including cultural studies, gender studies, philosophy, visual arts, sociology, and English. It challenges the ways in which identity and difference are discursively produced, particularly in psychological, criminological, and counter-cultural discourses. It will also appeal to critics and practitioners in contemporary practices of body modification.. The writings of such theorists as Foucault, Levinas, Barthes, and Lingis are scrutinized to reveal how their discourse interprets the tattooed body as simply an aberrant threat to the body or simply a positive counter-cultural challenge. Drawing on the works of a number of postmodern theorists, this study suggests that the tattooed body is symptomatic of a general process of marking and being marked and is a social production of identity and difference
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