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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 16, 2010 18:17:44 GMT
the most extraordinary and nerdish (is that a word?) text I've read last semester was 'Photography & Fetish' by Christian Metz. I had to read it for a presentation. There were a lot of interesting statements on indexicality, how photography is linked with death and if rather film or photography can become a fetish and why. And of course he couldn't resist to compare the "click" of the shutter with castration. When you're interested in photography (or fetishism or film or death or strange theories in general..) you should read it ..and you don't even have to translate everything like me. |
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Post by mimicry on Mar 16, 2010 19:31:20 GMT
Would you recommend The Politics Of Friendship? Unfortunately, I've only really encountered Derrida filtered through other writings and people. So really I'm the laziest academic ever. Romi, I've read that Metz article! So cool! |
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 21, 2010 1:33:26 GMT
Romi, I've read that Metz article! So cool! yes, it's absolutely cool  ! Do you know similar texts? Also I enhanced my knowledge in psychology last semester. One of the funniest terms I learned is 'the cocktail party phenomenon'. Who knows what it means gets a caipirinha. |
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Post by mimicry on Mar 21, 2010 7:20:46 GMT
when i get back to school i can dig up my huuuge contemporary art history text book (once i remove the flowers i'm pressing from it) there's another one but i am blanking on the name right now!
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Post by wakefromthysleep on Mar 21, 2010 17:11:21 GMT
I'm looking forward to the text. I put my flowers for pressing in my big fat atlas or in dictionaries. Pressed pansies are the best . |
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Post by tarantella on May 10, 2010 14:38:42 GMT
I love the feeling of having articulated a beautiful point in an essay more than just about anything. There's so much satisfaction in making an excellent argument or having explained myself perfectly -- a rare enough occurrence that I savor each occasion.
Reading this chapter of Donna Haraway (for the third time this year, mind you) made me want to cry, but it was totally worth it for the flash of revelation and perfect segue to the quotation, “Vision is always a question of the power to see – and perhaps of the violence implicit in our visualizing practices. With whose blood were my eyes crafted?” (Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, 192).
Doesn't that quote just blow your mind? It gives me chills. I don't understand about 60% of what Haraway says, ever, but the parts I do get are like pure sex. That might just be me fetishizing academia again.
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Post by wakefromthysleep on May 12, 2010 14:43:57 GMT
there's another one but i am blanking on the name right now! could you look up the name of this text for me? I'd read it willingly |
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Post by mimicry on May 12, 2010 14:51:02 GMT
Sorry it's taken so long-- and I'm even sorrier because I'm in the middle of moving and my books are somewhere else now.  I'll be home on Monday, though! And I'll write it down so I don't forget, too. |
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Post by wakefromthysleep on May 12, 2010 16:26:07 GMT
thank you!  |
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Post by mimicry on May 13, 2010 4:41:32 GMT
Alternatively, I could stop being a turd and see if I could hunt it down on the internet! It's Victor Burgin, "Looking at Photographs" (from 1977). You can find bits of it on Google books: books.google.com/books?id=XJFh9TT0Z9MC&dq=theories+and+documents+of+contemporary+art&printsec=frontcover&source=bn&hl=en&ei=senqS7uAMZDmswOhxdTjBw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CDsQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false(if you go through the table of contents, it's under the Language and Concepts section) There are parts of it missing that I can fill in later. I've taken so long you've probably read it somewhere else by now! ALSO I love the feeling of having articulated a beautiful point in an essay more than just about anything. There's so much satisfaction in making an excellent argument or having explained myself perfectly -- a rare enough occurrence that I savor each occasion. Reading this chapter of Donna Haraway (for the third time this year, mind you) made me want to cry, but it was totally worth it for the flash of revelation and perfect segue to the quotation, “Vision is always a question of the power to see – and perhaps of the violence implicit in our visualizing practices. With whose blood were my eyes crafted?” ( Simians, Cyborgs, and Women, 192). Doesn't that quote just blow your mind? It gives me chills. I don't understand about 60% of what Haraway says, ever, but the parts I do get are like pure sex. That might just be me fetishizing academia again. That quote is amazing. I feel much the same about bell hooks. Sometimes reading "Being the Subject of Art" makes me tear up a little. "Knowing my body and its limits, I am able to sacrifice belonging. If the fear of death is all that keeps us away from each other, then I willingly embrace death to reach you, to stand by your side." GUH(Also I am hunting down those book/article recs you posted in an old LJ post of mine because they all seem wonderful. They also would have been useful for my thesis, but I was too busy embroidering to read anything eve, oops.) |
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Post by tarantella on May 13, 2010 19:25:10 GMT
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