Zoë Sofia
Biographic Data
| ID | 640643 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zoë Sofia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zoë |
| FAMILY NAME | Sofia |
| SIGNATURE | SOFIA Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Murdoch University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Container Technologies
This paper goes beyond critiques of western philosophical notions of space as passive, feminine, and unintelligent by reconfiguring containment as an (inter-)active process. The author draws on work in the history of technology, on a cybernetic epistemology that emphasizes the interdependence of organism and environment, and on intersubjectivist psychoanalytic theories of the maternal provision. A more unexpected ally is found in Heidegger, whose…
Container Technologies
This paper goes beyond critiques of western philosophical notions of space as passive, feminine, and unintelligent by reconfiguring containment as an (inter-)active process. The author draws on work in the history of technology, on a cybernetic epistemology that emphasizes the interdependence of organism and environment, and on intersubjectivist psychoanalytic theories of the maternal provision. A more unexpected ally is found in Heidegger, whose…
Contested Zones
With reference to the video documentary Artists in Cyber-culture and other interviews with Australian women electronic artists, the author argues that a high-tech future in which the body is obsolete and evolutionary powers are ceded to machines is not a universally shared vision, but a projection from a particular gendered and cultural standpoint. It calls attention to the diversity of views technological artists may hold about futurity, newness…
Cooking up
This paper aims to make a psychoanalytical contribution to a cultural studies understanding of the logics — and fantasies — of commmodity consumption in the visual culture of late capitalism. Taking up the metaphor of the gut as a discriminating organ and of cooking as a textual production, we examine the relations between oral and ocular consumption, and between aliment and excrement, as expressed in two films from the 1980s which are centred ar…
Technoscientific poeisis
Hegemonic irrationalities and psychoanalytic cultural critique
(1992). Hegemonic irrationalities and psychoanalytic cultural critique. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 376-394
Masculine excess and the metaphorics of vision
Exterminating Fetuses
Contested Zones
With reference to the video documentary Artists in Cyber-culture and other interviews with Australian women electronic artists, the author argues that a high-tech future in which the body is obsolete and evolutionary powers are ceded to machines is not a universally shared vision, but a projection from a particular gendered and cultural standpoint. It calls attention to the diversity of views technological artists may hold about futurity, newness…
Cooking up
This paper aims to make a psychoanalytical contribution to a cultural studies understanding of the logics — and fantasies — of commmodity consumption in the visual culture of late capitalism. Taking up the metaphor of the gut as a discriminating organ and of cooking as a textual production, we examine the relations between oral and ocular consumption, and between aliment and excrement, as expressed in two films from the 1980s which are centred ar…
Masculine excess and the metaphorics of vision
Exterminating Fetuses
Masculine excess and the metaphorics of vision
Hegemonic irrationalities and psychoanalytic cultural critique
(1992). Hegemonic irrationalities and psychoanalytic cultural critique. Cultural Studies: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 376-394
Technoscientific poeisis
Contested Zones
With reference to the video documentary Artists in Cyber-culture and other interviews with Australian women electronic artists, the author argues that a high-tech future in which the body is obsolete and evolutionary powers are ceded to machines is not a universally shared vision, but a projection from a particular gendered and cultural standpoint. It calls attention to the diversity of views technological artists may hold about futurity, newness…
Cooking up
This paper aims to make a psychoanalytical contribution to a cultural studies understanding of the logics — and fantasies — of commmodity consumption in the visual culture of late capitalism. Taking up the metaphor of the gut as a discriminating organ and of cooking as a textual production, we examine the relations between oral and ocular consumption, and between aliment and excrement, as expressed in two films from the 1980s which are centred ar…
Container Technologies
This paper goes beyond critiques of western philosophical notions of space as passive, feminine, and unintelligent by reconfiguring containment as an (inter-)active process. The author draws on work in the history of technology, on a cybernetic epistemology that emphasizes the interdependence of organism and environment, and on intersubjectivist psychoanalytic theories of the maternal provision. A more unexpected ally is found in Heidegger, whose…
Container Technologies
This paper goes beyond critiques of western philosophical notions of space as passive, feminine, and unintelligent by reconfiguring containment as an (inter-)active process. The author draws on work in the history of technology, on a cybernetic epistemology that emphasizes the interdependence of organism and environment, and on intersubjectivist psychoanalytic theories of the maternal provision. A more unexpected ally is found in Heidegger, whose…
Sociology (8 works) · Art (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (3 works)