Sam Ladkin
Biographic Data
| ID | 2176351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sam Ladkin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sam |
| FAMILY NAME | Ladkin |
| SIGNATURE | LADKIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sheffield |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6778-5330 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure
"The "Onanism of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Rob Halpern and the Deconstruction of Masturbation
Lyric is onanistic: masturbation is the latent content of lyric poetry. This article counters queer theory with a turn to onanist theory, pointing out the centrality of masturbation to the work of Jacques Derrida, and suggesting that rather than consider masturbation the supplement to sex, we might consider the opposite. Modern man (the gendering is deliberate) has, according to Derrida, been mistaken in his metaphysics by a deluded fidelity to p…
Glancing paintings and poems: Figuration and abstraction in Clark Coolidge'sPolaroidand Willem de Kooning'sExcavation
This article reads, in parallel, Clark Coolidge's Polaroid (1975) and Willem de Kooning's Excavation (1950). It argues that both are exemplary meditations on the tension between abstraction and representation, and display that tension as an affective struggle that ultimately refuses any easy conceptualization of ‘abstraction’ or ‘representation’. The argument bears on their reception. As ‘New York School’ artist or ‘Abstract Expressionist’, de Ko…
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Glancing paintings and poems: Figuration and abstraction in Clark Coolidge'sPolaroidand Willem de Kooning'sExcavation
This article reads, in parallel, Clark Coolidge's Polaroid (1975) and Willem de Kooning's Excavation (1950). It argues that both are exemplary meditations on the tension between abstraction and representation, and display that tension as an affective struggle that ultimately refuses any easy conceptualization of ‘abstraction’ or ‘representation’. The argument bears on their reception. As ‘New York School’ artist or ‘Abstract Expressionist’, de Ko…
"The "Onanism of Poetry: Walt Whitman, Rob Halpern and the Deconstruction of Masturbation
Lyric is onanistic: masturbation is the latent content of lyric poetry. This article counters queer theory with a turn to onanist theory, pointing out the centrality of masturbation to the work of Jacques Derrida, and suggesting that rather than consider masturbation the supplement to sex, we might consider the opposite. Modern man (the gendering is deliberate) has, according to Derrida, been mistaken in his metaphysics by a deluded fidelity to p…
Theatres of Indirectness: Passive Aggression and Failure
Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Linguistics (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Poetry (2 works) · Abstraction (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Aggression (1 works) · Computer Science (1 works)