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Affekt und Repräsentation. Blick und Empfinden

Author(s): Angerer, Marie-Luise

Abstract

Starting with the Fly, Yoko Ono’s video from the early 1970s, this article compares a feminist reading of the 1970s/80s with a performative, new materialist reading as developed since the 1990s. Whereas feminist art and media theories center on psychoanalytical concepts such as the gaze and the disavowal of the female/maternal body, new feminist materialism takes the body – the one represented in the image and in the viewer’s body – as concrete, material co-processors provoking and stimulating a desire in motion. Whereas the 1970s understood the image as a chain of signification (and real women not fitting the concept of the WOMAN), the new reading goes beyond any semantic-linguistic interpretation. Today, a “philosophy of feeling” (Susanne Langer) focussing on movement, materiality, touch and sensation, meets the old anxieties of the 1970s where woman, body, feelings came along with nature – and nature was the pure opposite of the male logos ruling the world, producing knowledge, and governing policy.

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Angerer, Marie-Luise: Affekt und Repräsentation. Blick und Empfinden. In: FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur, Jg. 28 (2014), Nr. 1, S. 26-37. DOI: 10.25969/mediarep/13152.
@ARTICLE{Angerer2014,
 author = {Angerer, Marie-Luise},
 title = {Affekt und Repräsentation. Blick und Empfinden},
 year = 2014,
 doi = {10.25969/mediarep/13152},
 volume = 28,
 address = {Marburg},
 journal = {FKW // Zeitschrift für Geschlechterforschung und visuelle Kultur},
 number = 1,
 pages = {26--37},
}
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