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Toffoletti, Kim 2004, Catastrophic subjects: feminism, the posthuman, and difference, thirdspace : the journal for emerging feminist scholars, vol. 3, no. 2, pp. 1-13.

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Title Catastrophic subjects: feminism, the posthuman, and difference
Author(s) Toffoletti, Kim
Journal name thirdspace : the journal for emerging feminist scholars
Volume number 3
Issue number 2
Start page 1
End page 13
Publisher Womyn's Publication Netwerk
Place of publication Victoria, British Columbia
Publication date 2004-03
ISSN 1494-5355
Summary This article considers the question of difference in posthuman representations, through an interrogation of feminist reclamations of monstrous and cyborg forms. Through a critical analysis of the popular culture phenomenon Marilyn Manson, I pursue an alternative engagement with hybrid forms that disrupts the oppositional structuring of self/Other relations upon which a politics of identity and difference gains currency. Theories of the monstrous, Jean Baudrillard's writing on catastrophe, and digital morphing are explored to interrogate established understandings of difference within the context of a simulation culture that complicates the binaries of gender difference. Theorizing the posthuman subject as catastrophic occasions new imaginings for the subject that reside beyond the fixity of signifying practice.
Language eng
Field of Research 169901 Gender Specific Studies
HERDC Research category C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2004, thirdspace
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30013002
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