Dom Nasilowski
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Power Glam
Madison: You are absolutely correct that excessive visibility is a kind of power and in pointing out that Gaga shows us that beauty can be simultaneously entrancing and frightening. Does Gaga's glamour depend on a kind of queer sublime aesthetic? Whi ... -
Differencing New Feminism
A funny story in appreciation of your analysis Madison: Anticipating your post well before it dropped, and given other comments already made about defining feminisms, I consulted wikipedia on "new feminism". To my great surprise this particular ... -
Collaborations, Objects, and the Abject
Madison and friends, I'd like to point out another tool that Gaga uses in her image play- collaboration. Whether in videos with high profile directors and costars, performance art, or fashion an already established culural player is never far from Ga ... -
Shifting emphasis brings Gaga's subversive qualities into focus
The deferral of a stable identity in Gaga's performances, despite her verbal statements, is her subversive force. The videos not only address heteronormative femininity but also various masculinities (I'm specifically thinking of the choreograph ... -
Who is feminism for?
I'm sorry but your rhetoric disregarding the importance of Judith Butler's work in an informed discussion strand related to Lady Gaga and queerness misses an opportunity to address the question of feminism today. Instead, you fall back on outmod ... -
Must we paint Gaga with the postfeminist brush?
This is too important to leave without a response and I invite and appreciate any replies. I'm troubled that this discussion has indeed turned into a "feminist free for all", one that leaves Gaga as a "postfeminist" intact. That i ... -
Doing things with phoney dicks
Bravo Karen and Michael! The humour and playfulness in your post delivers some enjoyable new directions for imagining/imaging the phallic woman. Where does Gaga go with these recirculations and vacillations? To the bedroom of course! The simulated bdsm da ... -
Lady Gaga's Changing Colours
Thanks Jessalynn for opening this week's discussion by highlighting Gaga's ambiguous relationship to feminism. Although this clip is from last year and Gaga has incrimentally moved towards identifying as a feminist (see recent comments by Nancy ... -
Extended Conversations
Thanks, all. I really enjoy the contrast of MOR and Karin's closer reading of the Object with my more broad provocations on the role of objects in the Telephone video. Kris- Absolutely! I'm well pleased you picked up that I was trying to articul ...