Telling Flesh

The Substance of the Corporeal

Vicki Kirby

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781135206093
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Arte
• Subtopic: Cultura popolare nell'arte

In Telling Flesh, Vicki Kirby addresses a major theoretical issue at the intersection of the social sciences and feminist theory -- the separation of nature from culture. Kirby focuses particularly on postmodern approaches to corporeality, and explores how these approaches confine the body within questions about meaning and interpretation. Kirby explores the implications of this containment in the work of Jane Gallop, Judith Butler, and Drucilla Cornell, as well as in recent cyber-criticism. By analysing the inadvertent repetition of the nature/culture division in this work, Kirby offers a powerful reassessment of dualism itself.

Index

agency, 37–40, 48, 54, 90, 128, 131, 134, 138, 151

Althusser, L., 126

anagrams, of Saussure, 47, 115

anthropocentrism, 67, 157, 164

Anthropology, 2, 152–3

anti-essentialism, 40, 52, 54–5, 69, 72, 75, 78–9, 151, 153

antihumanism, 2, 5, 127

arche-writing, 53, 56

Aristotle, 22–3, 47, 66

Artaud, 155

Aspect, A., 113

autographism, 57–9

Barthélémy, 57–8

Barthes, R., 30, 53–4, 150

Bataille, G., 24

Beauvoir, S. de, 67, 68–9, 80

Being, 25, 61

Benedikt, M., 130–2, 134–6, 140–1

Bennington, G., 90

Benveniste, E., 10, 16–25, 28, 33, 43–46, 53–4, 63–4, 126

Beyond Accommodation, 87

binary oppositions, 56, 59, 64–7, 75, 85, 91–2, 95, 138, 142, 152, 161

biologism, 68

biology, 3, 70, 76–8, 88, 91, 98, 147, 154, 158–9

Blanchot, M., 85–6, 88, 156

Bohr, N., 112

Bourneville, D.M. and Régnard, P., 58

Butler, J., 5, 83–4, 101–28

Cahiers, 28

Cartesianism, 5, 59, 92, 127, 134, 137–42, 144, 147–9...