The threshold of the visible world / Kaja Silverman.
In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and ps...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
1996.
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| Summary: | In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-249) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781317795971 1317795970 9781317795988 1317795989 9781315811581 1315811588 9781317795964 1317795962 |