Margret Grebowicz: Why Internet Porn Matters

USA 2013, 135 pp., brochure, € 17.99
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Stanford University Press
Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Grebowicz in this philosophical analysis of Internet porn, in her account, are symptoms of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In ... Weiterlesen

José Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process »disidentification«, and through a ... Weiterlesen