SPECTACULAR OPTICAL is a book published by TRANS> arts.cultures.media to accompany the exhibition bt the same name held at Thread Waxing Space. The book takes as a point of departure the cultural fascination with violence, atrocity, mutation and the ways that they are depicted (some would say gentrified) as entertainment. The essays examine the ways in which opticality has become so spectacular, how this bedazzlement with entertainment is engineered in the larger sphere of cultural production. From feminism to fetishism, from simulation to stimulation, the book takes as an example David Cronenberg's work which deals with corporeality, aggravated biology, technology, spectacle, media, and violence.

Spectacular Optical

BAUDRILLARD, Jean

BUTLER, JUDITH

Žižek, Slavoj

ACKER, Kathy

Gangitano, Lia

Sinha, Amresh

Rimamelli, David

Passim Inc

Trans 7

Bill Arning Daniel Birnbaum Sandra Antelo-Suarez

<p>TRANS&gt;, a new multilingual journal from Latin America, chronicles contemporary art and culture from around the world. The multidisciplinary publication is divided into three sections - Project Sites, Telesymposium, and Overviews, Views and Reviews - and includes theoretical, critical, art historical and fictional texts by leading thinkers and critics. Bound into each issue is a 50-page, full-color artist's project created especially for Trans&gt;. Published three times a year. Back issues available. Volume 7 Features CD soundtrack of Sharon Lockhart's film Teatro Amazonas and Apeshit v3, a flip book by Leah Gilliam, and special projects by Gabriel Orozco, Ernesto Neto and Sharon Lockhart. Essays include Rosa Martinez on curating the 1999 Biennial Site Santa Fe. Dimension: 8 X 10 inches, 50 color and many b&amp;w images.</p>

Trans>, Arts. Cultures. Media

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Arts & Photography

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