Julia Kristeva 1966–96: Aesthetics politics ethics (Parallax, Issue 8 July–September 1998)

Book Cover......Page 1
Half-Title......Page 2
Copyright......Page 3
Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
Notes......Page 11
Dialogue with Julia Kristeva......Page 12
Introduction......Page 24
Note......Page 25
L’insoutenable et le mystère......Page 26
Sensible versus signifiant. L’étrangeté du phallus. L’illusoire......Page 29
Œdipe Bis......Page 31
Notes......Page 34
Mystery And The Unbearable......Page 36
The sensible versus the signifier. The extraneousness of the phallus. The illusory.......Page 39
The Girl’s Twofold Oedipus Complex......Page 41
Notes......Page 44
Temper Temper......Page 50
Wai guo ren, wai guo ren......Page 52
The Open Session......Page 59
Notes......Page 63
Three Images for Kristeva: From Bellini to Proust......Page 68
I......Page 69
II......Page 74
III......Page 75
Notes......Page 77
Preface......Page 82
Part I......Page 83
Lacan’s Sublimation......Page 85
Part II Vermeer’s Sublimity......Page 87
The Solace of Repetition......Page 88
Reading Vermeer......Page 91
Part III A Turn to the Feminine: Kristeva’s ‘Heresy’......Page 94
Feminism’s Exile......Page 98
Feminism, Signifying Practices and the History of the Avant-Garde......Page 99
Femininity and Alterity......Page 104
A Sublimation from the Feminine: A Matrixial Shift......Page 106
Notes......Page 111
The Ghost of the Father, the Society of the Spectacle—Death of the Mother......Page 114
Narcissus—Fixated Narcissus......Page 116
The Essential (and the) Imaginary......Page 118
The Transcendental Ego......Page 119
The Epoché and the Semiotic......Page 121
The Infinite as the Transcendental Aspect of the Imaginary......Page 122
The Infinite as the Basis of Poetic Language......Page 123
A Transcendent Imaginary?......Page 124
Notes......Page 125
Julia Kristeva and her histories......Page 128
Note......Page 133
Book Reviews......Page 134
Donna Landry and Gerald Maclean (eds.) The Spivak Reader (London and New York: Routledge, 1996)......Page 136
Notes......Page 139
Judith Butler Excitable Speech (London: Routledge 1997)......Page 140
Notes......Page 142
Pathologising Gone Awry Christina Mazzoni Saint Hysteria: Neurosis, Mysticism, and Gender in European Culture (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1996)......Page 144
Adrian Piper Out of Order, Out of Sight Volume I: Selected Writings in Meta-Art 1968-1992, and Volume II: Selected Writings in Art Criricism 1967-1992 (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, 1996).......Page 148
Hush and Hemiola: 2700 m2 of hope shelter and home Francesca Hughes (ed.) The Architect: Reconstructing Her Practice (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997)......Page 152
Nadir Lahiji and D.S.Friedman Plumbing: Sounding Modern Architecture (London: Princeton Architectural Press, 1997)......Page 156
Keith Ansell Pearson Viroid Life: Perspectives on Nietzsche and the Transhuman Condition (London: Routledge, 1997)......Page 160
Conference Report......Page 164
Polotics, Friendship and 'democracy to come': Jacques Derrida's Politics of Friendship Conference organised in association with Chantal Mouffe and Ernesto Laclau (Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, 29-30th November 1997).......Page 166
Notes......Page 169
parallax  Issue 9 October–December 1998 neo-pragmatisms & new romanticisms......Page 178