Biographical note: Jules Sturm (PhD) is assistant professor of Literary Studies and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are critical theories of the body in the fields of queer and disability studies, and...
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Biographical note: Jules Sturm (PhD) is assistant professor of Literary Studies and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. His research interests are critical theories of the body in the fields of queer and disability studies, and posthuman theories. Long description: This book explores the productive effects of bodily ´failure´ in the sphere of visuality. The aim is to reflect on the human body´s constant exposure to visual constraints and distortions, which are incorporated so strongly in everyday images of our bodies that they become invisible, while yet representative of cultural norms. By analyzing artistic literary and visual representations of imperfect, disabled, aging, queer, and monstrous bodies, this project exposes the »handicaps« of normative vision and opens up new ways of recognizing a multitude of corporeal existences and practices outside the norm.
Cover Bodies We Fail; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Body in Art; The Body in Theory; The ""Failing"" Body; 1 Reading for Monsters; Gothic Monsters; Reading the Monster; Performative Reading; Subverting Performance; 2 Vulnerability; Distorted Vision; Relational Vulnerability; Ethical Vulnerability; A Vulnerable Aesthetic; 3 Portraiture and Self-Loss; Narcissus and the Loss of Self; From Scientific Display to Artistic Self-Imaging; Showing an Account of Oneself; 4 Absence in Mapplethorpe's Wake; Photography in the Face of Death; Politics of Absence
Productive VisionThe Unconsciously Visible; Modes of Becoming Image; 5 Mirroring Age; The Foreign Body; Reverse Mirror Stage; Mirrored Intimacy; Horizontality and the Informe; Formless Materiality; Afterword; Bibliography
