Anne Cranny-Francis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1021145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anne Cranny-Francis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anne |
| FAMILY NAME | Cranny-Francis |
| SIGNATURE | CRANNY-FRANCIS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Technology Sydney |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 18 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Fullness of Life’
This essay explores a recently discovered, unpublished typescript by Australian writer Jack Lindsay, most likely written in the 1970s and titled â The Fullness of Life: The Autobiography of an Ideaâ . In this work Lindsay offers an analysis of his own development as a thinker and artist as expressed in his own published writing. Not a small undertaking given that Lindsay published over 160 books in a range of genres including translations from cl…
Hospitality, Subjectivity and Ceremony
As Matei Candea and Giovanni da Col note in their Preface to a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2012), the last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the notion of hospitality: From Levinas’s phenomenological ethics and Serres’s study of parasitic relationships, through to Agamben’s musings on ‘inclusive exclusion’ and Derrida’s invention of the neologism hostipitality’ (ii). They note also that political…
Introduction, LTC volume 17
This collection of articles was prompted by our concern with the ways in which the treatment of strangers is understood socially, culturally, politically and legally. The actions of successive Australian governments seem deliberately to avoid any engagement with a notion of hospitality as an obligation to assist those in need, to accommodate the visitor or the alien. The arrival of strangers is instead viewed as hostile – an infringement of natio…
Sculpture as deconstruction
This article analyses recent (2009) work of Australian-born, British-based hyperrealist sculptor, Ron Mueck, in order to show how it not only engages with a range of specific contemporary concerns and debates, but also operates as a visual deconstruction of Cartesian subjectivity. In order to identify Mueck’s deconstructive practice, the article uses a combination of multimodal, sensory and discourse analyses to situate Mueck’s work discursively …
The art of touch
This photo-essay explores artworks and technology that deploy touch - either literally or virtually - in order to interrogate the nature of contemporary being and meaning. They do this by engaging viewers in a virtual deconstruction of their own embodied being - their positioning in space/time; their incorporation of values, beliefs and attitudes articulated by affective practices that engage them bodily; and their reconstitution within a technol…
Semefulness
This paper explores the multiple significances (semefulness) of touch, as experienced by us as embodied subjects. Prompted by the development of a range of touch-based technologies, I consider the current writings about touch in a range of fields and how these have contributed to contemporary understandings of the meanings of touch. I then explore a number of these meanings – connection, engagement, contiguity, differentiation, positioning – for …
Touching Film
This article analyses the somatic experiences of film-viewing and film-making by reference to the sense of touch. For viewers the tactility of film is located in the film's deployment of sound and in the ways it challenges the viewer's proprioceptive sense; that is, sense of location in space. Both, it is argued, are deployed to incorporate the viewer into the film's narrative and its politics, as classical realist film is often said to "suture" …
From extension to engagement
This article maps the metaphors that have been used to facilitate human engagement with wearable technologies — extension, enhancement, augmentation — and locates the values and assumptions about the body and technology that they articulate. At the same time it considers the figure of the cyborg, in which many of these metaphors are incorporated fictionally and theoretically, and locates in this figure not one (interrogative, critical) meaning, b…
Wearable technology
Wear now
This is a photo-essay of the design philosophy and practice of a three-sister fashion design team based in Newcastle, Australia. Their interest in fabrication, textiles and technology in fashion led them to participate in the Australian Network of Art and Technology (ANAT)'s reSkin wearable technology laboratory 2007. The lab explored the integration of electronics and new materials into traditional craft practices and design artefacts. This phot…
Ecce techno, or, suiting the biomechanical platform
This article examines what happens in the experience of embodiment when a person is immersed or clad in technologies designed to redefine the edges and to extend the communicative capabilities of each individual body. The article also analyses how multisensory communications technology is currently challenging contemporary definitions of gender, community and technology
Mapping Cultural Auracy
Anna Kassabian writes in Hearing Film that “classical Hollywood film music is a semiotic code, and that it can and should be subjected to various semiotic and cultural studies methods, such as discourse analysis and ideology critique” (p. 36). This paper examines the sound of a particular Hollywood film—the B-Grade 1950 science fiction “classic” The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)—in order to perform the kind of analysis Kassabian demands; but a…
Ways of Being
This chapter will introduce you to some of the most influential recent writing on gender and bodies. The body has long been a topic in women's studies, and is no less important to the study of gender. We will be looking at how some of the second-wave theories of women's bodies are transformed, resurrected or challenged in the age of newly imagined cyborg and transgendered bodies. An interdisciplinary method to the question of the body seems best,…
Gender Studies
This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis in women's/gender
Different Identities, Different Voices
Fan writer Jean Lorrah has published a number of novels based on the series, Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation. This article explores several of Lorrah’s novels, tracing within them both conservative and non-mainstream voices and discourses. Alongside patriarchal representations of gender relationships, Lorrah offers an exploration of interpersonal intimacy which is fundamentally subversive of patriarchal strategies. Her female charact…
Gender and genre
Sic or No
Sexuality and Sex-Role Stereotyping in Star Trek
The focus of the narrative and fan interest in the television series Star Trek is the characterization of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. Kirk is based on a coventional male stereotype emphasizing qualities of aggression and dominance. Accordingly, his appeal for women viewers constitutes a reinforcement of traditional (submissive, passive) female qualities. As an alien, Spock is signified as “other” within the series—and this otherness is a point of …
Henry Lawson and the ‘Labour Leader’
Pacifying the Socialist
Discusses alternate versions of Lawson's poem 'The Hymn of the Socialists', also titled 'Hymn of the Reformers', and argues for the significance of the former, 1889 version of the poem
Touching Film
This article analyses the somatic experiences of film-viewing and film-making by reference to the sense of touch. For viewers the tactility of film is located in the film's deployment of sound and in the ways it challenges the viewer's proprioceptive sense; that is, sense of location in space. Both, it is argued, are deployed to incorporate the viewer into the film's narrative and its politics, as classical realist film is often said to "suture" …
Semefulness
This paper explores the multiple significances (semefulness) of touch, as experienced by us as embodied subjects. Prompted by the development of a range of touch-based technologies, I consider the current writings about touch in a range of fields and how these have contributed to contemporary understandings of the meanings of touch. I then explore a number of these meanings – connection, engagement, contiguity, differentiation, positioning – for …
From extension to engagement
This article maps the metaphors that have been used to facilitate human engagement with wearable technologies — extension, enhancement, augmentation — and locates the values and assumptions about the body and technology that they articulate. At the same time it considers the figure of the cyborg, in which many of these metaphors are incorporated fictionally and theoretically, and locates in this figure not one (interrogative, critical) meaning, b…
Ecce techno, or, suiting the biomechanical platform
This article examines what happens in the experience of embodiment when a person is immersed or clad in technologies designed to redefine the edges and to extend the communicative capabilities of each individual body. The article also analyses how multisensory communications technology is currently challenging contemporary definitions of gender, community and technology
Mapping Cultural Auracy
Anna Kassabian writes in Hearing Film that “classical Hollywood film music is a semiotic code, and that it can and should be subjected to various semiotic and cultural studies methods, such as discourse analysis and ideology critique” (p. 36). This paper examines the sound of a particular Hollywood film—the B-Grade 1950 science fiction “classic” The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)—in order to perform the kind of analysis Kassabian demands; but a…
Gender and genre
Pacifying the Socialist
Discusses alternate versions of Lawson's poem 'The Hymn of the Socialists', also titled 'Hymn of the Reformers', and argues for the significance of the former, 1889 version of the poem
Pacifying the Socialist
Discusses alternate versions of Lawson's poem 'The Hymn of the Socialists', also titled 'Hymn of the Reformers', and argues for the significance of the former, 1889 version of the poem
Henry Lawson and the ‘Labour Leader’
Sexuality and Sex-Role Stereotyping in Star Trek
The focus of the narrative and fan interest in the television series Star Trek is the characterization of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. Kirk is based on a coventional male stereotype emphasizing qualities of aggression and dominance. Accordingly, his appeal for women viewers constitutes a reinforcement of traditional (submissive, passive) female qualities. As an alien, Spock is signified as “other” within the series—and this otherness is a point of …
Sic or No
Gender and genre
Different Identities, Different Voices
Fan writer Jean Lorrah has published a number of novels based on the series, Star Trek and Star Trek: The Next Generation. This article explores several of Lorrah’s novels, tracing within them both conservative and non-mainstream voices and discourses. Alongside patriarchal representations of gender relationships, Lorrah offers an exploration of interpersonal intimacy which is fundamentally subversive of patriarchal strategies. Her female charact…
Ways of Being
This chapter will introduce you to some of the most influential recent writing on gender and bodies. The body has long been a topic in women's studies, and is no less important to the study of gender. We will be looking at how some of the second-wave theories of women's bodies are transformed, resurrected or challenged in the age of newly imagined cyborg and transgendered bodies. An interdisciplinary method to the question of the body seems best,…
Gender Studies
This book provides an accessible and interdisciplinary introduction to current debates on gender, exploring the major theorists whose work has produced and inspired feminist analysis in women's/gender
Ecce techno, or, suiting the biomechanical platform
This article examines what happens in the experience of embodiment when a person is immersed or clad in technologies designed to redefine the edges and to extend the communicative capabilities of each individual body. The article also analyses how multisensory communications technology is currently challenging contemporary definitions of gender, community and technology
Mapping Cultural Auracy
Anna Kassabian writes in Hearing Film that “classical Hollywood film music is a semiotic code, and that it can and should be subjected to various semiotic and cultural studies methods, such as discourse analysis and ideology critique” (p. 36). This paper examines the sound of a particular Hollywood film—the B-Grade 1950 science fiction “classic” The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)—in order to perform the kind of analysis Kassabian demands; but a…
From extension to engagement
This article maps the metaphors that have been used to facilitate human engagement with wearable technologies — extension, enhancement, augmentation — and locates the values and assumptions about the body and technology that they articulate. At the same time it considers the figure of the cyborg, in which many of these metaphors are incorporated fictionally and theoretically, and locates in this figure not one (interrogative, critical) meaning, b…
Wearable technology
Wear now
This is a photo-essay of the design philosophy and practice of a three-sister fashion design team based in Newcastle, Australia. Their interest in fabrication, textiles and technology in fashion led them to participate in the Australian Network of Art and Technology (ANAT)'s reSkin wearable technology laboratory 2007. The lab explored the integration of electronics and new materials into traditional craft practices and design artefacts. This phot…
Touching Film
This article analyses the somatic experiences of film-viewing and film-making by reference to the sense of touch. For viewers the tactility of film is located in the film's deployment of sound and in the ways it challenges the viewer's proprioceptive sense; that is, sense of location in space. Both, it is argued, are deployed to incorporate the viewer into the film's narrative and its politics, as classical realist film is often said to "suture" …
The art of touch
This photo-essay explores artworks and technology that deploy touch - either literally or virtually - in order to interrogate the nature of contemporary being and meaning. They do this by engaging viewers in a virtual deconstruction of their own embodied being - their positioning in space/time; their incorporation of values, beliefs and attitudes articulated by affective practices that engage them bodily; and their reconstitution within a technol…
Semefulness
This paper explores the multiple significances (semefulness) of touch, as experienced by us as embodied subjects. Prompted by the development of a range of touch-based technologies, I consider the current writings about touch in a range of fields and how these have contributed to contemporary understandings of the meanings of touch. I then explore a number of these meanings – connection, engagement, contiguity, differentiation, positioning – for …
Sculpture as deconstruction
This article analyses recent (2009) work of Australian-born, British-based hyperrealist sculptor, Ron Mueck, in order to show how it not only engages with a range of specific contemporary concerns and debates, but also operates as a visual deconstruction of Cartesian subjectivity. In order to identify Mueck’s deconstructive practice, the article uses a combination of multimodal, sensory and discourse analyses to situate Mueck’s work discursively …
Hospitality, Subjectivity and Ceremony
As Matei Candea and Giovanni da Col note in their Preface to a special issue of the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (2012), the last decade has seen a resurgence of interest in the notion of hospitality: From Levinas’s phenomenological ethics and Serres’s study of parasitic relationships, through to Agamben’s musings on ‘inclusive exclusion’ and Derrida’s invention of the neologism hostipitality’ (ii). They note also that political…
Introduction, LTC volume 17
This collection of articles was prompted by our concern with the ways in which the treatment of strangers is understood socially, culturally, politically and legally. The actions of successive Australian governments seem deliberately to avoid any engagement with a notion of hospitality as an obligation to assist those in need, to accommodate the visitor or the alien. The arrival of strangers is instead viewed as hostile – an infringement of natio…
The Fullness of Life’
This essay explores a recently discovered, unpublished typescript by Australian writer Jack Lindsay, most likely written in the 1970s and titled â The Fullness of Life: The Autobiography of an Ideaâ . In this work Lindsay offers an analysis of his own development as a thinker and artist as expressed in his own published writing. Not a small undertaking given that Lindsay published over 160 books in a range of genres including translations from cl…
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