Author(s): Arthur Kroker, Marilouise Kroker
Series: Culturetexts
Publisher: New World Perspectives
Year: 1987
Language: English
Pages: 279
CONTENTS......Page 9
I. BODY INVADERS......Page 11
1. Panic Sex in America......Page 12
2. THESES ON THE DISAPPEARING BODY
IN THE HYPER-MODERN CONDITION......Page 22
3. THE YEAR 2000 HAS ALREADY HAPPENED......Page 37
II. BODY MAPS......Page 47
4. THE FASHION APPARATUS AND THE DECONSTRUCTION OF POSTMODERN SUBJECTIVITY......Page 49
5. A TALE OF INSCRIPTION/FASHION STATEMENTS......Page 63
6. FASHION AND THE CULTURAL LOGIC OF POSTMODERNITY......Page 80
III. BODY PROBES......Page 97
7. CARNAL KNOWLEDGE OF
AESTHETIC STATES......Page 101
8. BODY SHOPS THE DEATH OF GEORGES BATAILLE......Page 122
9. THE PORNOGRAPHIC BODY DOUBLE; TRANSGRESSION IS THE LAW......Page 152
10. FOUCAULT’S DISAPPEARING BODY......Page 171
11. A MS.-MANAGED WOMB......Page 185
12. THE ANOREXIC BODY......Page 203
13. THE CHALLENGE OF LOSS......Page 215
14. AFRAIDS......Page 218
IV. BODY WRITING......Page 224
15. CRIMINOLOGICAL DISPLACEMENTS:
A SOCIOLOGICAL DECONSTRUCTION......Page 225
16. LETTERS IN EXCESS......Page 256
17. BODY IN RUINS......Page 264
18. THE DANCE OF THE SCARECROW BRIDES......Page 272
CONTRIBUTORS......Page 277
