Anna Watkins Fisher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3860143 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Watkins Fisher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna Watkins |
| FAMILY NAME | Fisher |
| SIGNATURE | FISHER A W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anna Watkins Fisher is a PhD student in the Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She has published in Women & Performance, Le Texte Étranger, Artforum, and e-flux's Art&Education, and contributed to In the Limelight and Under the Microscope: Forms and Functions of Female Celebrity (Continuum, 2011). Her dissertation, “Feminist Impositions: Performing Parasites in Contemporary Art and Media,” proposes parasitism as a critical paradigm for rethinking contemporary feminism through... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Play in the System
Part-time feminist
Like a Girl's Name
What if the future of feminist art lay not in images of self-mastery, dignity, and maturity but rather in performances of teen regression? Adolescent drag designates a performance of irony, awkwardness, and equivocality that expands the identificatory repertoire available to a generation of women who are said to have inherited from Western feminism
Manic Impositions
Manic Impositions: The Parasitical Art of Chris Kraus and Sophie Calle Anna Watkins Fisher (bio) [There] is the moment when Echo traps Narcissus in a certain way. . . . Echo, in her loving and infinite cleverness, arranges it so that in repeating the last syllables of the words of Narcissus, she speaks in such a way that the words become her own. . . . In repeating the language of another, she signs her own love. Jacques Derrida, in the documenta…
New Media, Old Media
New Media, Old Media is a comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital video, and MP3s against the backdrop of earlier media such as television, film, photography, and print. The essays provide new benchmarks for evaluating all those claims; political, social, ethical, …
Manic Impositions
Manic Impositions: The Parasitical Art of Chris Kraus and Sophie Calle Anna Watkins Fisher (bio) [There] is the moment when Echo traps Narcissus in a certain way. . . . Echo, in her loving and infinite cleverness, arranges it so that in repeating the last syllables of the words of Narcissus, she speaks in such a way that the words become her own. . . . In repeating the language of another, she signs her own love. Jacques Derrida, in the documenta…
New Media, Old Media
New Media, Old Media is a comprehensive anthology of original and classic essays that explore the tensions of old and new in digital culture. Leading international media scholars and cultural theorists interrogate new media like the Internet, digital video, and MP3s against the backdrop of earlier media such as television, film, photography, and print. The essays provide new benchmarks for evaluating all those claims; political, social, ethical, …
Like a Girl's Name
What if the future of feminist art lay not in images of self-mastery, dignity, and maturity but rather in performances of teen regression? Adolescent drag designates a performance of irony, awkwardness, and equivocality that expands the identificatory repertoire available to a generation of women who are said to have inherited from Western feminism
Manic Impositions
Manic Impositions: The Parasitical Art of Chris Kraus and Sophie Calle Anna Watkins Fisher (bio) [There] is the moment when Echo traps Narcissus in a certain way. . . . Echo, in her loving and infinite cleverness, arranges it so that in repeating the last syllables of the words of Narcissus, she speaks in such a way that the words become her own. . . . In repeating the language of another, she signs her own love. Jacques Derrida, in the documenta…
Part-time feminist
Play in the System
Art (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Art history (1 works) · Art, Politics, and Modernism (1 works)