Bad Object-Choices (eds.): How Do I Look? Queer Film And Video (1991)
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“The papers and discussions published here comprise the proceedings of a conference held at Anthology Film Archives in New York City, October 1989, organized by Bad Object-Choices, a reading group formed in the spring of 1987 to address questions of gay and lesbian theory. The proceedings were edited by the following group members: Terri Cafaro, Jean Carlomusto, Douglas Crimp, Martha Gever, Tom Kalin, and Jeff Nunokawa.” (from the Preface)
The publication was prepared as a special issue of October journal, but ultimately rejected by the editors; and further delayed as more than twenty printers refused to print the book–at issue were images in the Patton, Mercer, and Fung essays. It was eventually printed in Germany. (see interview with Douglas Crimp and p. 10)
With essays by Cindy Patton, Stuart Marshall, Judith Mayne, Richard Fung, Kobena Mercer, and Teresa de Laurentis.
Publisher Bay Press, Seattle, WA, 1991
ISBN 0941920208
295 pages
Reviews: Jennifer A. Machiorlatti (Journal of Film and Video, 1993), Thomas Dukes (Journal of the History of Sexuality, 1994), Lauri Mullens (Int’l Gay & Lesbian Review).
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Comment (0)Kathy Acker: Empire of the Senseless. A Novel (1988)
Filed under fiction | Tags: · appropriation, body, cyborg, gender, science fiction, sexuality
“Set in the near future, in a Paris devastated by revolution and disease, Empire of the Senseless is narrated by two terrorists and occasional lovers, Thivai, a pirate, and Abhor, part robot and part human. Together and apart, the two undertake an odyssey of carnage, a holocaust of the erotic. ‘An elegy for the world of our fathers,’ as Kathy Acker calls it, where the terrorists and the wretched of the earth are in command, marching down a road charted by Genet to a Marseillaise composed by Sade.” (from the back cover)
Publisher Grove Press, New York, 1988
ISBN 0802110797
227 pages
Commentary: Peter Wollen (London Review of Books, 1998).
PDF (18 MB, no OCR)
Comment (0)Madonna: Sex (1992)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · body, nudity, photography, popular culture, sex, sexuality
One of the most controversial books of the 1990s, now long out of print. Wikipedia has an extensive article about its production, reception and legacy. See also a recent, critical comment on the book by Isabella Rossellini.
Photographed by Steven Meisel
Art directed by Fabien Baron
Edited by Glenn O’Brien
Produced by Callaway
Publisher Warner Books, New York, October 1992
ISBN 0446517321
128 pages
PDF (10 MB)
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