The Abject, America (Lusitania)

Liu, Catherine

Arts & Photography

Lusitania Press

Vulvamorphia is not about voyeurism. Nor is it specifically about female genitalia or “askew” iconic references to female genitalia. Vulvamorphia is definitely not about an art practice or philosophy of “in your face” female parts, infantile feminist statements that never move beyond “naughty” shock or academic master discourses. Vulvamorphia is a polyphonous chorus of little things, the sad, lost, discarded, forgotten, denied, repressed, disavowed and foreclosed subjects, objects, and thingnesses of the world.

Vulvamorphia

Politics & Social Sciences

Lennox, Lillian

Philosophy

Thanks to digital technology and post-structuralist thought, architects and artists are facing a brave new world of bodies without organs, buildings that circumscribe their function, and art that forms a prosthetic hard drive for our consciousness. In this schema, technology, which Marshal McLuhan theorized as the extension of our bodies into the world, has become inverted and is now literally seen as modifying and transforming our relation to that world through media's ability to not only create the means of representation, its subject and content, but also organize author and audience alike. Beyond Form is both a celebration of our situation and a critical survival manual. The contributors to this volume, including artists Jennifer Steinkamp and Maureen Connor, respond to the mediating space of technology, aware that the forms of the future lie within the indeterminate content of cultural production and consumption itself, and not within the ideal of the technological sublime of modernism that had in the past reduced this issue, both performatively and iconographically, to a question of form, function and style.

Beyond Form

Omar Calderon

Christine Calderon

Peter Dorsey

History & Criticism

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