Reader on Fetishism (Value, Flesh, Real, Referent)
Cassandra Press
A compilation of texts including:
-John Ruskin's lecture 'traffic', the goddess of getting on
--Vincent Woodard- the delectable negro- excerpt from Sex, Honor, and Human Consumption
--Baudrillard, critique of political Economy of the sign
--Hortense Spillers, keynote lecture for The Flesh of the Matter: A Hortense Spillers Symposium Full lecture on video
--Scratching the Lotus Blossom Itch SanSan Kwan
--Beyond Thinking: Black Flesh as Meat Patties and The End of eating Everything, Theodora Danylevich
--Denise Ferreira da Silva - Hacking the Subject: Black Feminism, Refusal, and the Limits of Critique Full lecture on video
--Radio Nights: Evita Out of the Waves Klaus Theweleit, Laurence A. Rickels
--Rob Baum- Aphra Behn’s Black Body: Sex, Lies & Narrativity in Oroonoko
--In Love's shadow Reflections on the Night of Philosophy-- Rossen Ventzislavov
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