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Anti-Electra

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Anti-Electra

The Radical Totem of the Girl
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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.

Author Biography:

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. 
Release date NZ
June 11th, 2019
Audiences
  • General (US: Trade)
  • Professional & Vocational
Contributors
  • Translated by Anita Fricek
  • Translated by Stephen Zepke
Illustrations
6
Pages
216
Series
ISBN-13
9781517907136
Product ID
28485062

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