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Zusatztext Immersive, subtle, illuminating, bizarre: these are a few of the adjectives that might be used to describe Lynn Turner’s compelling book. Poetics of Deconstruction focuses mostly on film and visual culture, but its concerns are multifarious and often surprising – from Irigaray to Björk, from Haraway to von Trier, from cats and dogs to kisses and the death penalty. It is also an especially distinctive and welcome study for the ways in which it brings together Jacques Derrida’s writings on the performative with notions of performativity in gender and film theory. Informationen zum Autor Lynn Turner is a Reader in Visual Culture, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. She is the co-editor of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (2017); co-author of Visual Cultures As… Recollection (2013); editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (2013) and an assistant editor of Derrida Today. Zusammenfassung In Poetics of Deconstruction, Lynn Turner develops an intimate attention to independent films, art and the psychoanalyses by which they might make sense other than under continued license of the subject that calls himself man. Drawing extensively from Jacques Derrida's philosophy in precise dialogue with feminist thought, animal studies and posthumanism, this book explores the vulnerability of the living as rooted in non-oppositional differences. From abjection to mourning, to the speculative and the performative, it reposes concepts and buzzwords seemingly at home in feminist theory, visual culture and the humanities more broadly. Stepping away from the carno-phallogocentric legacies of the signifier and the dialectic, Poetics of Deconstruction asks you to welcome nonpower into politics, always sexual but no longer anchored in sacrifice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: In the Beginnings: Introducing Poetics of Deconstruction Chapter 2: The Animal Cure: inhaling the other in Dean Spanley Chapter 3: Raising Animals: between the basement and the kennel in The Woman Chapter 4: Speculations: gesture in Conceiving Ada and Absent Presence Chapter 5: Outlaws: towards a posthumanist feminine in Dancer in the Dark Chapter 6: ‘Unfamiliar Unconscious’: the performativity of Infinity Kisses Chapter 7: In Lieu of Conclusion: White God ...
