- Hardcover: 384 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (14 Aug 1997)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415145805
- ISBN-13: 978-0415145800
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 18.2 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 5,496,710 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Eight Technologies of Otherness is a bold and provocative re-thinking of identities, politics, philosophy, ethics, and cultural practices. In this groundbreaking text, old essentialism and binary divides collapse under the weight of a new and impatient necessity. Consider Sue Golding's eight technologies: curiosity, noise, cruelty, appetite, skin, nomadism, contamination, and dwelling. But why only eight technologies? And why these eight, in particular? Included are thirty-three artists, philosophers, filmmakers, writers, photographers, political militants, and 'pulp-theory' practitioners whose work (or life) has contributed to the re-thinking of 'otherness,' to which this book bears witness, throw out a few clues.
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Format:Paperback
From Kathy Acker's "Requiem" to Christopher Fynsk's analysis of Nietzsche's ascetic cruelty and Bacon's violence, from Pascal Brannan's high camp Mr Madam pamphlet templates to author/editor Sue Golding's musings on the ethics of revenge and the politics of curiosity (or is it the curiosity of politics?), this mad bad and dangerous book rewrites the shopping list of oppressions as we know it; no more can we think of humanism as a democratic stand as the sun sets on Enlightenment and technology spirals out of control...what of the mess, the blood of reason? Golding's word of warning sets the tone: "We are at a peculiar moment [...] What if we were to stop sterilizing the wounds?" From high academic reading to 'pulp theory', from word to image, laughter to pain, this anthology dares to reconfigure what constitutes thought at the close of the second millenium. Poems counterpoint philosophy, photographs comment on text, in a truly rhizomatic rush of contexts and contents. To read this book is to be a nomad, a flaneur, a voyeur, a thief, a whore. It is a place of crossings, of vampires and transgender shapeshifters, shamans and pornophilosophers; it presents an otherness we all inhabit, where dada cyborgs and AIDS patients dance and copulate whilst burning all your preconceptions on a bonfire of this culture's vanities. Identity politics will never be the same again.
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a little mind blowing, sexy and smart;wild use of technology
14 Mar 2000
Format:Paperback
as a kind of music nerd, i came across this book looking for different ways 'technology' is used these days. this book blew me away -- it has 8 sections [or technologies] like skin, cruelty, contamination [i can't remember them all]. but it was like surfing in some incredible ocean -- intense and hard, but also with some funk/acid thrown in. recommend you read it slow, and just kind of dip into it. wow.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Utter genius
23 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
This book, or should I say, work of sublime genius is necessary reading for any one concerned, worried, excited, turned-on, bored by the events of this age. This work alleviates the itch and creates a new high water mark for current philosophy. A must read for any serious human.
1 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Linguisitic and mental ballet
9 Dec 1999
Format:Paperback
This work appears to function far above my level, so it must be exceptional.
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