Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review“In
Shadows of Enlightenment, Jill Casid sets herself no less a task than the rethinking of modernity and the formation of the European subject. Concerned with the psychic, affective, and material powers of projection and propelled by queer, feminist, and postcolonial revisions of psychoanalysis, Casid ultimately takes her readers from the mythic origins of representation to exemplary instances of contemporary art. And in the course of traversing the history and charting the geography of projection, even as she tarries with darkness, she produces nothing short of illumination.” —Lisa Saltzman, Bryn Mawr College
Table of ContentsContents
Introduction: Shadows of Enlightenment
1. Paranoid Projection and the Phantom Subject of Reason
2. Empire through the Magic Lantern
3. Empire Bites Back
4. Along Enlightenment’s Cast Shadows
5. Following the Rainbow
Conclusion. Queer Projection: Theses on the “Future of an Illusion”
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
