Apart from Sex
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21157795 |
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| Authors | Adrian Rifkin (Goldsmiths, Lewisham Way SE14 6NW, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 8 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 265-277 |
| Publication date | 2009-12-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Visual Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-4129 • E-ISSN: 1741-2994 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470412909105695 |
| OpenAlex | W2169560157 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
I am concerned here with the ways in which image and theory interact over decades of development and becoming visible the one to the other. I set out the processes of becoming visible and readable in new and unexpected ways against the questionable newness of the new, and against the outstanding question of what it might have been that the old really was. In this discussion the word sex is deployed as if it referred to an essential nature, and this Edenic use is formulated as a critical abuse of theoretical models that have dominated our understanding of the visible
Cognitive science · Epistemology · Sociology · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Computer Science · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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