A close examination of the relationship between media, art, and the “Electra complex” The feminist counterpart to Deleuze and Guattari’s Anti-Oedipus, Anti-Electra 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.
Presenting an interpretation of contemporary technics, Anti-Electra 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.” Anti-Electra 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.

Anti-Electra: The Radical Totem of the Girl (Univocal)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

von Samsonow, Elisabeth

Mental Health

Univ. of Minnesota Press

This catalogue presents Wolfgang's Laib's exhibition on all four floors of the Kunsthaus Bregenz, and features photos of his delicate sculptures made from beeswax, marble, milk, rice, and pollen, as well as of the artist creating these meditative pieces.

Wolfgang Laib

Arts & Photography

Köb, Edelbert

Sagmeister, Rudolf

Laib, Wolfgang

Photography & Video

Verlag De Buchhandlung Walter

Gerti Machacek: Jewellery Sculpture

Kramlovsky, Beatrix

Mischkulnig, Lydia

Decorative Arts & Design

Arnoldsche Verlagsanstalt

Alexander Ruthner: Cour: Summer

Individual Artists

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