Theory, Culture & Society 32(5-6): Transdisciplinary Problematics (2015)

This special issue of the journal contributes to current debates about disciplinarity and academic disciplines.

With texts by Peter Osborne, Michel Serres (introduced by Lucie Mercier), Étienne Balibar, David Cunningham, Nina Power, Félix Guattari (introduced by Andrew Goffey), Éric Alliez, Stella Sandford, Tuija Pulkkinen, and Lisa Baraitser.

Edited by Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford and Éric Alliez
Publisher Sage, September-November 2015
ISSN 0263-2764
231 pages

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Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa (eds.): This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981–) [EN, ES]

“This book is a testimony to women of color feminism as it emerged in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Through personal essays, criticism, interviews, testimonials, poetry, and visual art, the collection explores, as co-editor Cherríe Moraga writes, “the complex confluence of identities—race, class, gender, and sexuality—systemic to women of color oppression and liberation.””

First published by Persephone Press, Watertown, MA, 1981

Second edition
Publisher Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press, New York, 1983
ISBN 091317503X, 9780913175033
xxvi+261 pages
HT Lisa Nakamura

Third edition, revised & expanded
Publisher Third Woman Press, Berkeley, CA, 2002
ISBN 0943219221, 9780943219226
lviii+370+[8] pages

Commentary: Cassius Adair & Lisa Nakamura (Am Lit, 2017).

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See also Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology (1983) and Words of Fire: An Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought (1995).

Shelley Green: Radical Juxtaposition: The Films of Yvonne Rainer (1994)

“This volume examines the work of one of the central figures of the avant-garde from her first feature-length film in 1972, Lives of Performers, through Film About a Woman Who… (1974), Kristina Talking Pictures (1976), Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980), The Man Who Envied Women (1985), to Privilege (1990). The comprehensive study surveys critical reaction and includes Rainer’s critical writings, photos, full biographical information, a complete filmography and bibliography.

The book also investigates dominant structural elements which enliven Rainer’s filmic texts: her complex and disjunctive use of language, speech, repetition, interpolated texts, fragmentation, self-conscious camera movement, autobiography and the formulation of alternative narrative codes. A focal point is the unique relationship established between the filmmaker and the spectator.

Rainer’s narrative strategies have been considered in a radical political context; the author specifically analyzes Rainer’s aggressive reexamination of form as it contributes to the politics of the personal and the political. Resonances created in complex construction of sound, image, editing, characterization, camera movement, and the obliteration and calculated reevaluation of these techniques often directly lead to a new construction of the female subject as well as the female spectator. By creating a cinema that may both construct and include its audience, Rainer’s work has vast implications. The author develops this significant aspect and addresses issues of race, age, and class, especially in later films.” (from the back cover)

Publisher Scarecrow Press, Metuchen, N.J., 1994
The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series, 41
ISBN 0810828634, 9780810828636
174 pages

Commentary: Strictly Film School (2005).

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See also Rainer’s films on UbuWeb.