Full Description
This book analyzes synchronization as a symptom of the contemporary art world.
Acting as a tool within present-day social, economic, and political systems, synchronization assigns individuals to predetermined forms of representation. At its core, this book challenges normative synchronization concepts as projections of a unity of bodies and voices, past and present, self and environment. The text offers a non-linear art historical narrative of those practices that have consistently tried to "desynchronize" from antisemitism and homophobia. Through thoughtful analysis of art practices from Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, Zanele Muholi, Anna Daučíková, Sharon Hayes, Glenn Ligon, and Chantal Akerman, the author seeks to address the current wish to create contemporaneity for all—often through violence against those perceived as not belonging to it.
This book is ideal for researchers and scholars in Art History, Philosophy, Queer Theory, Gender Studies, and Sociology.
Contents
1. Chapter_1
Synchronization as Norm - Philosophical Genealogies of De/Synchronization - Con-Temporaneity, Chronophobia, and Paranoia - The Pathology of Antisemitic Resentment - The Slave Market - Orientalism's Double Referentiality - In the Loge - The Sale of a Child Slave - A Wish that Gay People not Exist - Claude Cahun - Orientalism and Antisemitism - Zanele Muholi - God's Phallus
2. Chapter_2
Chronology and Anachronism - Fantasy of Redemption - Moscow in the 1980s - To Read One's Own Desire - Time of the Other or Temporal Denial? - Exposing the Denial of Anachronism - Unconscious Thought - Envy - Problematizing Feminist Decolonial Proposals of Making Kinship
3. Chapter_3
Guilt-free Societies of Labor - Guest labor, forced labor - The Primal Scene of Narrative - „Never forgetting." "Wir haben ein Recht auf Arbeit." "I AM A MAN." "Lezbyjka na prezydenta." - Conditional and Unconditional/Absolute Hospitality - Ideology of Cultural Survival - Weak Messianic Force - The Ghost is the Phenomenon of the Spirit - Irresistible Irony - The Primal Scene of Slavery - I am a (WO)man
4. Chapter_4
Drama - Hegel and Haiti - Eisenstein and Pudovin: Beyond Perception as a Right to Possess - Psychoanalytical Feminists' Proposal for a Universalist Perspective - Les Rendez-vous d'Anna - Black Motherhood - Coexistence, Chora - The Primal Scene of Lesbian Sexuality
Conclusion: From Aesthetics to Politics and back
