Following Achille Mbembe's understanding of the "aesthetics of superfluity," this article argues that in her novels set in the US, Broken Monsters and The Shining Girls, Lauren Beukes images the ...displacement and condensation of a rising global political unconscious. I argue that her novels underscore the violent drive of a white male imaginary that takes part in both US and South African infrastructural urban histories. Beukes dramatizes the eruptive racist and misogynistic violence that occurs when "the subject" of the former center is unable to construct a satisfying narrative of his objective circumstances, particularly when the nation, or more accurately global capitalism, has not made good on its promised narrative of "the good life." The novels thus provide cautionary tales for the rise of white nationalism in the present while providing an ex-centric peoples' history of American cities through the Afropolis.
El bautismo ha sido siempre uno de los más importantes sacramentos de la Santa Iglesia Católica. Su administración lo componían una serie de rituales complejos en los que había tener presente ...diferentes elementos, entre ellos el alma, considerada el elemento principal que permitía el acceso al bautismo, sin ella ningún ser podía ser bautizado. El nacimiento de los seres deformes (considerados monstruos) generó, por tanto, una problemática que obligó a los clérigos, en sus manuales de confesores, a reflexionar sobre sus almas y su derecho al bautismo.
Avec l'utilisation de fourrure, de plumes, de coraux, de papillons ou de bois de cervidés, les influences animales sont tres présentes dans les vetements du créateur de mode britannique britannique ...Alexander McQueen. L'influence de la mode et de la culture victorienne n'est pas moins présente dans ses vetements ou les mises en scene de ses défilés qui semblent souvent hantés de références au xixe siecle. L'article s'intéresse a la maniere dont ces deux influences se combinent chez le britannique et donnent a ses créations une certaine inquiétante étrangeté. imaginant des créatures hybrides d'une beauté souvent monstrueuse - entre l'animal, l'humain ou la machine - McQueen évolue dans un univers créatif qui emprunte au gothique, au steampunk et a la maniere de Frankenstein, il assemble des éléments disparates pour les faire cohabiter dans des créatures a la présence inquiétante. With fur, feathers, corals, antlers or butterflies a constant feature of his creations, Alexander McQueen created designs that gave the animal world pride of place whilst his fashion and the imagery of his catwalk presentations were deeply influenced by Victorian sartorial and visual culture. in this essay the Victorian inspiration of his retro-futuristic designs will be studied to illustrate the uncanny persistence of some of the animalistic fantasies of the Victorian era into the contemporary world. McQueen not only played with Victorian sartorial and animal references but also mixed and matched humans, animals and indeed machines and crossfertilized them into single creatures thus borrowing from the Victorians not only their bestiaries but also, Frankenstein-like, sewed together parts of different animals to create monstrous hybrids, indeed discomforting animals.
Creating a Monster Ritchie, Jessica
Feminist media studies,
02/2013, Letnik:
13, Številka:
1
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The United States Democratic primary campaign of 2007-8 witnessed widespread misogynistic and anti-feminist portrayals of Senator Hillary Clinton across all types of media. In particular, Clinton was ...regularly depicted as monstrous and/or cyborgian, collapsing the boundaries between male and female, human and animal, and organism and machine. Such portrayals indicate a gender crisis in contemporary American culture which intensifies when women attempt to enter positions of power in the public arena. Research has shown that television, radio and print media coverage of American political candidates has consistently relied on gender stereotypes that undermine the campaigns of women politicians. However, portrayals of female candidates in online media remain largely unexplored. This paper discusses the implications of online media for women's political campaigns and for the democratic process itself. Through an analysis of digital imagery, I argue that simulations of Clinton circulating on the Internet during the primaries sought to produce a political reality in which Clinton's bid for the White House could be rendered improper and unnatural. In so doing, I suggest the continuing potential of online media to produce detrimental representations of female politicians.
Focusing on melodramatic elements and female relationships in Asunción Izquierdo Albiñana’s 1938 novel, this study argues that the agonistic excesses in the work foster consideration of and encourage ...struggle over conceptions of gender roles, matrimony, and agency. The title protagonist, Andréïda, challenges a strict binary gender division through her dramatically portrayed mechanistic self-construction and in the way questions of desire relate to the control of that construction. Further, through both a brief, trenchant epilogue and a complementary plot arc that involves sensationalist portrayals of heterosexual relationships, the novel disrupts the narrative framing of marriage and imagines a more egalitarian arrangement. Finally, the homosocial relations between the female characters themselves also contribute to a conception of agency that seeps beyond the heroic individual to proffer a more diffuse, modest, and quotidian activism to achieve change. Theoretical work by Peter Brooks, Jesús Martín- Barbero, Laura Podalsky, and Sharon Marcus informs this analysis.
According to Dendle, these traits both lure and provide comfort to a generation imbued in a complex, incorporeal reality surrounded by unpredictable bursts of global violence ("Millennial" 175-86). ......viruses are not considered to be strictly living beings according to traditional science, for, unlike parasites and bacteria, they are acellular organisms that need to live off other living cells in order to replicate their genetic material, otherwise being inert or dead (Crawford 8). ...they need to self-replicate-the virus releasing its genetic material within the cell until it lyses and liberates new viruses, and the zombie reproducing itself like a plague, making endless copies of itself. ...they both transform their victims, the cells and the bodies, homogenizing differences between victim and attacker and ultimately following similar processes at microscopic and macroscopic levels.
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