{"product_id":"anti-electra-the-radical-totem-of-the-girl-9781517907136","title":"Anti-Electra: The Radical Totem of the Girl","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s \u003ci\u003eAnti-Oedipus\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eAnti-Electra\u003c\/i\u003e is a philosophy of “the girl” as a model of contemporary transgressive subjectivity. Elisabeth von Samsonow asserts that focusing on the girl’s escape from the Oedipus complex leads to a fundamental shift in our most common views on media and art.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, \u003ci\u003eAnti-Electra\u003c\/i\u003e argues that technology today encompasses Electra’s gadgets and toys. According to von Samsonow, satellite drive technologies such as wireless telephones, WLAN, and GPS echo the “preoedipal constellation” that the girl specializes in. And with the help of the girl, the cartography of overlapping zones between humankind and animals, as well as between humankind and apparatuses, is redesigned through what the book holds as a “radical totemism.” \u003ci\u003eAnti-Electra\u003c\/i\u003e ultimately offers a new view on gender, the contemporary world dyed by symbolic girlism, and the (universal) girl in critical dialogue with media, ecology, and society.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAnti-Electra\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes an occasionally uncanny and always fascinating work, which advocates a constellational, schizogamous relationality. This intellectually engaging and witty book will be of interest to art historians, scholars with interests in media studies, and those who are open to be challenged by an exciting feminist revaluation of ancient myths and their relation to the present.\"—\u003ci\u003eIdentities\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003ePreface to the English Language Edition\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Electra as Female “Oedipus”\u003cbr\u003ePositive Unrelatedness and Exogamy\u003cbr\u003eConstitutive Strangeness or Primary Exoticism\u003cbr\u003eSchizogamy\u003cbr\u003eXenological Anamnesis\u003cbr\u003eTotemistic “Objectification”\u003cbr\u003e2. Radical Totemism and Automatism\u003cbr\u003eTheogenesis and the Twilight of Machines\u003cbr\u003eTotem and Xenocracy\u003cbr\u003eAnimal Mummy and the Apparatus-Function\u003cbr\u003eAnthropomorphization of the Deity\u003cbr\u003eApparatus or Weak Totem\u003cbr\u003e3. Totemism and Sculpture: Preliminaries to a Theory of Schizosoma\u003cbr\u003eMetabolism and Therapeutic Schizosoma\u003cbr\u003ePre-oedipality as a “Plastic Phase”\u003cbr\u003eExcursus: Plasma, Forming, Sculpture\u003cbr\u003eThe Statue Delivering Oracles\u003cbr\u003eThe Two-Body Doctrine\u003cbr\u003eThe One and the Many\u003cbr\u003eSocial Sculpture\u003cbr\u003e4. The Labyrinth: General Theory of Schizosoma\u003cbr\u003ePasiphae’s Cow\u003cbr\u003eThe Satellite\u003cbr\u003e5. The Four Pre-oedipal Objects\u003cbr\u003eFailing Equalization and the Emergence of the Complex\u003cbr\u003eElectrification\u003cbr\u003eAppendix\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Minnesota Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040955302231,"sku":"9781517907136","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781517907136.jpg?v=1750948395","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/anti-electra-the-radical-totem-of-the-girl-9781517907136","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}