Jean Baudrillard: Seduction (1979-) [ES, EN, CZ, PL]

“Seduction, in French thinker Baudrillard’s apocalyptic discourse, is a power of attraction and fascination capable of subverting mechanical, orgasm-centered sexuality and reality in general. Two chief obstacles to unleashing the potentially liberating forces of seduction are the women’s movement and psychoanalysis, charges the author of America and Forget Foucault. While recognizing that seduction has a negative side–turning the seduced person away from his/her true thoughts and impulses–Baudrillard is intrigued by the seductive processes at work in the vertigo induced by games, in magic and the lottery, in the transvestite’s “total gestural, sensual and ritual” behavior. He decodes pornography as “an orgy of realism,” a hyperreality of signs. In his analysis, seduction has itself been corrupted in a world of manufactured desires and ready-made satisfactions. With seductive irony, Baudrillard storms the fragile phallic fortress of patriarchy in this heady, sometimes obscure meditation.”

Originally published in French as De la seduction by Editions Galilee, 1979
Translated to English by Brian Singer
Publisher New World Perspectives, 1991
CultureTexts series
ISBN 092039325X
182 pages
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PDF (Spanish, trans. Elena Benarroch, 1981)
PDF (English, trans. Brian Singer, 1991)
PDF (Czech, trans. Alena Dvořáčková, 1996)
PDF (Polish, trans. Janusz Margański, 2005, updated on 2016-10-28)

Lies: A Journal of Materialist Feminism, No. 1 (2012)

“LIES is a new journal spearheaded by a feminist collective based in Oakland, Baltimore, Los Angeles and New York City.

LIES is a communist journal against communists.

LIES is a platform for certain conversations and critiques that are difficult, impossible or dangerous if cis men are in the room.

LIES attacks the legacy of racism and transphobia that has plagued feminist organizing and strives to develop new ways of making autonomous feminist practices today that take pointed and militant attacks on white supremacy and transphobia as essential parts of feminist struggle.

LIES came out of our experience within struggles. It seeks to embody and develop in print the practice of autonomy that we needed to save ourselves in the midst of movements squared on patriarchy and fueled by the subordination of everyone but white cis men.

LIES draws its purpose and support from networks and circles of feminist, queer, and trans people, our friends and comrades to whom this journal is devoted.”

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial License
250 pages

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Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No. 1: Conversations Across the Field (2012)

Ada is a feminist, multimodal, peer reviewed journal that examines the intersections of gender, new media, and technology.

Ada issues will be organized around themes and will be published twice a year. Ada is an open-access peer reviewed journal. The first issue highlights contributions from the field and is an invited issue. Subsequent issues are peer reviewed using a multi-level open peer review process.

Chief Editor: Carol Stabile
Produced by Fembot Collective, November 2012
Published and preserved through the University of Oregon Libraries
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License
ISSN 2325-0496

announcement of the launch

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