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Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent
is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships,
global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of
production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions.
From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the
contributors to Querying Consent address the most uncomfortable
questions about consent today. Grounded in theoretical explorations
of the entanglement of consent and subjectivity across a range of
textual, visual, multi- and digital media, Querying Consent
considers the relationships between consent and agency before
moving on to trace the concept's outcomes through a range of
investigations of the mutual implication of personhood and
self-ownership.
To the Collector Belong the Spoils rethinks collecting as an
artistic, revolutionary, and appropriative modernist practice which
flourishes beyond institutions like museums or archives. Through a
constellation of three author-collectors-Henry James, Walter
Benjamin, and Carl Einstein-Annie Pfeifer examines the relationship
between literary modernism and twentieth-century practices of
collecting objects. From James's paper hoarding to Einstein's mania
for African art and Benjamin's obsession with old Russian toys, she
shows how these authors' literary techniques of compiling,
gleaning, and reassembling constitute a modernist style of
collecting which that reimagines the relationship between author
and text, source and medium. Placing Benjamin and Einstein in
surprising conversation with James sharpens the contours of
collecting as aesthetic and political praxis underpinned by
dangerous passions. An apt figure for modernity, the collector is
caught between preservation and transformation, order and chaos,
the past and the future. Positing a shadow history of modernism
rooted in collection, citation, and paraphrase, To the Collector
Belong the Spoils traces the movement's artistic innovation to its
preoccupation with appropriating and rewriting the past. By
despoiling and decontextualizing the work of others, these three
authors engaged in a form of creative plunder that evokes
collecting's long history in the spoils of war and conquest. As
Pfeifer demonstrates, more than an archive or taxonomy, modernist
collecting practices became a radical, creative endeavor-the artist
as collector, the collector as artist.
Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent
is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships,
global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of
production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions.
From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the
contributors to Querying Consent address the most uncomfortable
questions about consent today. Grounded in theoretical explorations
of the entanglement of consent and subjectivity across a range of
textual, visual, multi- and digital media, Querying Consent
considers the relationships between consent and agency before
moving on to trace the concept's outcomes through a range of
investigations of the mutual implication of personhood and
self-ownership.
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