Stefan Mattessich
Biographic Data
| ID | 1403262 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Mattessich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Mattessich |
| SIGNATURE | MATTESSICH S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Santa Monica College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Selections from Pornocracy, or Women in Modern Times
On Pornocracy
Marc Fichou’s Habitus
Marc Fichou's Habitus: Video Feedback Art in a Philosophical Context Stefan Mattessich (bio) French-born artist Marc Fichou has exhibited an intriguing body of work in a string of shows around L.A.: "Contenant Contenu" at the Robert Berman gallery (January–February 2013), "Ouroboros" at the Young Projects gallery (January–April 2014), "Outside-In" at the Chimento Contemporary (June–July 2016), and, most recently, "Uncertainty," a group show at th…
A Stranding in Strange Places
disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Judith Butler adroitly frames the kind of dilemma that Tariq encounters when he tries to defend himself against the stigmatizing effects of such stereotypes, which “stop speech with an unspeakable allegation.” Her example is speech critical of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, but the dynamic is the same: “If you speak, you are in an unspeakable place…
The Blind Spot
You had something in your eye! – Just about half of Fifth Avenue! Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut In this essay I examine the critique of current liberal democratic consensus implied in Kubrick's last fi
A Singular Falsity
This essay frames in García Márquez’s novel an ethical subjectivity constituted through discursive relations to a distinctively modern history. These relations are sustained by his characters via psychological modes of disavowal, euphemism, and denial that García Márquez analyzes in terms of an aesthetic drive for autonomy or exception. This drive works not simply at a thematic level but also semiotically, in the novel’s formal dimension, and acc…
Self-Critical Theory
This essay looks at the figure of the universal, or a universalizable substrate, in the work of four contemporary theorists (Cornell, Butler, Badiou, Rancière). It argues that this figure, understood as a "living" universality, implies a necessary implication of the writer and reader in the "abstract" rationalities of today's global system. The first is grasped uniquely in the internalized risk of the latter, taken on as one's own and according t…
Drifting Decision and the Decision to Drift
This essay builds on previous criticism highlighting the semiotic dimensions of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping to identify in its metaphors of spirit and spiritual haunting a performative logic of social implication. This logic appears within a metaphysics of subjectivity that the essay draws out in the novel with the help of Derrida's meditations on religion and Nancy's revision of dialectical reason. The "house" of identity, the essay argues…
DeLillo's Thing
Grotesque Caricature
Grotesque Caricature: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut as the Allegory of Its Own Reception Stefan Mattessich Eyes Wide Shut. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael. Perf. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Sydney Pollack. Warner Brothers, 1999. Such was the fashion, such the human being; the men were like the paintings of the day; society had taken its form from the mould of art. —Charles Baudelaire, “Some French Ca…
Ekphrasis, Escape, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 3, May 1998
Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces
Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces Stefan Mattessich Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997. We ought to have topographers... —Montaigne I, 31 If we are to believe Montaigne, what is near masks a foreignness. —Michel de Certeau1 Where am I? —Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon The publication of Gravity’s Rainbow in 1973 has proved an object lesson for many in the deferring and repetitious temporal structure of trauma or, put…
A Stranding in Strange Places
disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Judith Butler adroitly frames the kind of dilemma that Tariq encounters when he tries to defend himself against the stigmatizing effects of such stereotypes, which “stop speech with an unspeakable allegation.” Her example is speech critical of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, but the dynamic is the same: “If you speak, you are in an unspeakable place…
Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces
Telluric Texts, Implicate Spaces Stefan Mattessich Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon. New York: Henry Holt & Company, 1997. We ought to have topographers... —Montaigne I, 31 If we are to believe Montaigne, what is near masks a foreignness. —Michel de Certeau1 Where am I? —Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon The publication of Gravity’s Rainbow in 1973 has proved an object lesson for many in the deferring and repetitious temporal structure of trauma or, put…
Ekphrasis, Escape, and Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49
Postmodern Culture - Volume 8, Number 3, May 1998
Grotesque Caricature
Grotesque Caricature: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut as the Allegory of Its Own Reception Stefan Mattessich Eyes Wide Shut. Dir. Stanley Kubrick. Screenplay by Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael. Perf. Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, and Sydney Pollack. Warner Brothers, 1999. Such was the fashion, such the human being; the men were like the paintings of the day; society had taken its form from the mould of art. —Charles Baudelaire, “Some French Ca…
DeLillo's Thing
A Singular Falsity
This essay frames in García Márquez’s novel an ethical subjectivity constituted through discursive relations to a distinctively modern history. These relations are sustained by his characters via psychological modes of disavowal, euphemism, and denial that García Márquez analyzes in terms of an aesthetic drive for autonomy or exception. This drive works not simply at a thematic level but also semiotically, in the novel’s formal dimension, and acc…
Self-Critical Theory
This essay looks at the figure of the universal, or a universalizable substrate, in the work of four contemporary theorists (Cornell, Butler, Badiou, Rancière). It argues that this figure, understood as a "living" universality, implies a necessary implication of the writer and reader in the "abstract" rationalities of today's global system. The first is grasped uniquely in the internalized risk of the latter, taken on as one's own and according t…
Drifting Decision and the Decision to Drift
This essay builds on previous criticism highlighting the semiotic dimensions of Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping to identify in its metaphors of spirit and spiritual haunting a performative logic of social implication. This logic appears within a metaphysics of subjectivity that the essay draws out in the novel with the help of Derrida's meditations on religion and Nancy's revision of dialectical reason. The "house" of identity, the essay argues…
The Blind Spot
You had something in your eye! – Just about half of Fifth Avenue! Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut In this essay I examine the critique of current liberal democratic consensus implied in Kubrick's last fi
A Stranding in Strange Places
disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 Judith Butler adroitly frames the kind of dilemma that Tariq encounters when he tries to defend himself against the stigmatizing effects of such stereotypes, which “stop speech with an unspeakable allegation.” Her example is speech critical of Israel's policies toward the Palestinians, but the dynamic is the same: “If you speak, you are in an unspeakable place…
Marc Fichou’s Habitus
Marc Fichou's Habitus: Video Feedback Art in a Philosophical Context Stefan Mattessich (bio) French-born artist Marc Fichou has exhibited an intriguing body of work in a string of shows around L.A.: "Contenant Contenu" at the Robert Berman gallery (January–February 2013), "Ouroboros" at the Young Projects gallery (January–April 2014), "Outside-In" at the Chimento Contemporary (June–July 2016), and, most recently, "Uncertainty," a group show at th…
Selections from Pornocracy, or Women in Modern Times
On Pornocracy
Art (9 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Literature (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · History (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works)