Drawing on the works of a number of postmodern theorists, this
study suggests that the tattooed body is symptomatic of a general
process of marking and being marked and is a social production of
identity and difference. Shifting the focus away from what the
tattooed body means to what it does, this work analyzes how it
functions and what effects it produces. It challenges the ways in
which identity and difference are discursively produced,
particularly in psychological, criminological, and counter-cultural
discourses. The writings of such theorists as Foucault, Levinas,
Barthes, and Lingis are scrutinized to reveal how their discourse
interprets the tattooed body as simply an aberrant threat to the
body or simply a positive counter-cultural challenge. These
theories are supplanted with this unique approach to notions of
subjectivity, textuality, ethics, and pleasure and to the
relationships among them.
This examination of the role of the body in social, political,
and ethical relations will attract scholars from a number of
disciplines, including cultural studies, gender studies,
philosophy, visual arts, sociology, and English. It will also
appeal to critics and practitioners in contemporary practices of
body modification.
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