Matrixial Subjectivity, Aesthetics, Ethics, Volume 1, 19902000: Volume 1 19902000 (Studies in the Psychosocial),Used

Product Description This book is the first of two volumes that, together, present for the first time a comprehensive collection of three decades of the theoretical writings of artist and theorist Bracha L Ettinger. Edited and introduced by Griselda Pollock they provide a systematic anthology of Ettingers pathbreaking and influential concept of Matrixial subjectivityasencounter and jointnessindifference, and chart her radical intervention in aesthetics, ethics and theories of subjectivity far beyond classical feminist and current gender/queer theory.This first volume includes the writings in which Ettinger elaborates her original concepts of Matrixial spacetime and metramorphosis, fascinance, wit(h)nessing, resonance, transcryptum, compassion, selffragilization and resistance, coemergence and copoiesis transform theories of the subject, Eros, alliance and love, sexual difference, alterity, relationality, trauma and violence. Her critical dialogue with theorists including Levinas, Lacan, Lyotard and Deleuze & Guattari, Butler, Cavarero and Irigaray is evident here.A leading authority on Matrixial theory, Griselda Pollock provides explanatory prefaces to each chapter and a lengthy introduction that situates Ettingers work in relation to sociopsychoanalytical theory and practice and current social and philosophical debates. Ettingers interlacing of psychoanalysis, ethics, and aesthetics can be seen here to address some of the deepest challenges of our social, cultural and political existence today. From the Back Cover This book is the first of two volumes that, together, present for the first time a comprehensive collection of three decades of the theoretical writings of artist and theorist Bracha L Ettinger. Edited and introduced by Griselda Pollock they provide a systematic anthology of Ettingers pathbreaking and influential concept of Matrixial subjectivityasencounter and jointnessindifference, and chart her radical intervention in aesthetics, ethics and theories of subjectivity far beyond classical feminist and current gender/queer theory.This first volume includes the writings in which Ettinger elaborates her original concepts of Matrixial spacetime and metramorphosis, fascinance, wit(h)nessing, resonance, transcryptum, compassion, selffragilization and resistance, coemergence and copoiesis transform theories of the subject, Eros, alliance and love, sexual difference, alterity, relationality, trauma and violence. Her critical dialogue with theorists including Levinas, Lacan, Lyotard and Deleuze & Guattari, Butler, Cavarero and Irigaray is evident here.A leading authority on Matrixial theory, Griselda Pollock provides explanatory prefaces to each chapter and a lengthy introduction that situates Ettingers work in relation to sociopsychoanalytical theory and practice and current social and philosophical debates. Ettingers interlacing of psychoanalysis, ethics, and aesthetics can be seen here to address some of the deepest challenges of our social, cultural and political existence today.Bracha L Ettinger is an international contemporary visual artist, theorist and psychoanalyst whose wideranging artworking, theoretical writings and teaching have influenced art theory, feminism, philosophy and psychoanalysis. She is Marcel Duchamp Chair and Professor of Psychoanalysis and Art at European Graduate School, Switzerland and Distinguished Professor at The Global Center for Advanced Studies, USA.Editor:Griselda Pollock is Professor of Social and Critical Histories of Art at the University of Leeds, UK. She is an art historian, cultural analyst and critical theorist working on violence, trauma and aesthetic transformation. About the Author Bracha L Ettinger is an international contemporary visual artist, theorist and psychoanalyst whose wideranging artworking, theoretical writings and teaching have influenced art theory, femin