I think it is unfortunate to try to close off the potential conversation between teenage girl readers (who may well be reading Butler, who may well be reading In Media Res), girls studies scholars and "ivory tower" theorists. Perhaps you could s ...
I would like to back Jessalynn up in arguing that the 'waves' of feminism are certainly not 'outmoded'! There has been a lot of really interesting recent (especially European and Australian) scholarship on the potential discursive plat ...
Thank you, Dom, for a really inspiring response! You're raising some very interesting questions! I think that Gaga's monstrosity is closely linked both with her phallicities (the felicitous performances of phallic plenitude) and her inphalliciti ...
I stumbled over a post by Levi Bryant at his blog Larval Subjects which seems to me to address a number of the issues which we have all been raising over the last four days both in our curations and our comments. Before I draw out some of the important th ...
This is a really great question Kris, thanks. Your comments throughout the week have done much to force a long overdue rapprochement between OOO and queer theory/gender theory and also psychoanalysis. Many of the figures I’ve been mentioning (Vitale, Bogo ...
Actually, Kris, I think on re-reading your very rich comment that we are much closer on this than I initially thought. We do agree that the cloth gets a hard on and that Gaga simultaneously gets a hard on too. Thanks for a great discussion and really prov ...
Thank you for a really exciting response, Kris! I want to add another (less OOO-related) perspective to Michael's follow-up. Some of the remarks that Kris makes about the cloth hard-on remind me of Halberstam's analyses of butch appeal in Femal ...
Thanks Kirsty! Great post! I guess the question here is whether Lady Gaga is progressive or just an icon of progressivity. To me, that's one of the most interesting things about her, though- the fact that we can't quite tell. In addition to all ...
I'll second Karin and thank you for this thought-provoking post. Davide Panagia has written very persuasively about the incompossibilities of style and substance and how " Lady Gaga has transformed Pop into an art with a set of aesthetic convict ...
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