The Eight Technologies of Otherness

Dr Sue Golding, Sue Golding

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2002
• ISBN:
  9781134758906
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Popular Culture in Art

The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and impatient necessity. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, and dwelling. But why only eight technologies? And why these eight, in particular? Included are thirty-three artists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, photographers, political militants, and 'pulp-theory' practitioners whose work (or life) has contributed to the re-thinking of 'otherness, ' to which this book bears witness, throw out a few clues.

Subject index

abject 5, 8

abstract 230, 309

abyss 98, 337–8; l’abysme 14; abyssal logic 11; and divinity 142; and Hamlet 100

aesthetics 196, 299, 337; aesthetic analogy 98; aesthetic life 325; of death and femininity 120; in Deleuze 337; of realism 127; of ruins 130; of the social sublime 283; and transgender 176

age 49; as epoch xii, 62–3; mark of 122, 336;

Aids see HIV

alterity 101, 195, 222, 224; in Nietzsche 80

angels 257; Hell’s Angels 321; and monsters 173

anonymity 148, 212; in cities 333; of freedom 9–10

a priori 120, 263–4

architecture 65–6, 300, 307–19; of internet 67

art 215; as in poiesis 90

artificial 99,101–2

askesis 92–4, 96, 99

assaults, sexual 159, 187

Aufhebung 99, 337–8

beauty 85, 88; Baudelaire’s idea of 8–9; beautiful 91, 233; deferral of 6; and desire 114; as illusion 75; refusal of 7; rhythm and truth of 6

Being 93; ‘being human’ 12; ‘being in the world’ 86; ‘being other’ 150; ‘being towards death’ 100; ‘being-alone’ 142; Constitution of 280; in Deleuze 86; meaning through 307; in Nietzsche 102; and place 310–14; as rhythm 141, 144

Bildung 84, 284–8

binary: binaric divide xii, 21; either-or distinctions 64, 92, 228, 322–4; gender 65, 173, 176; life-death 230; liminal 121; time-space 220; see also body

biology: biological incongruence 175; discourses of 123, 192; and gender 173–4; and mythical origins 129

bisexuality 156, 337; bisexual promiscuity 183

blood 46, 56, 184, 198–200, 247, 338; and bleeding homelands 22–5; and castration 185; and cum 330; ‘one drop of blood rules’ 195; as pervert 205; ‘relics of blood’ 318; ‘rivulets of blood’ 340; and vampires 121, 123; and violence 191; ‘voice ofthe blood’ xiii

body 65, 86, 119, ...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Acknowledgements
• Dedication
• A Word of Warning
• Curiosity
• Noise
• Cruelty
• Appetite
• Skin
• Nomadism
• Contamination
• Dwelling
• Notes on contributors
• Subject index
• Name index