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Catttt Posted 6 years ago
Grammar

Re-working

1. Does "re-working" in the provided context mean "redefining" or "reviving"?


2. Does "through desire" mean "not through repression but through desire and pleasure"? The main source of this part is:

(source: https://books.google.de/books?id=WfU753omq8YC&printsec=frontcover&hl=de&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)


3. Does "re-epidermalisation" somehow imply "revision in the way the black body is viewed and understood"?


4. Does "black body as a ‘light sensitive “frame” or “screen”" mean "black body as a context and basis like canvas for a painting"?


Context:

Hall describes 1990s black art as a ‘re-working of the abjected black body through desire’. This black narcissus would produce new corporeal schemas which rewrite the self using the black body as a ‘light sensitive “frame” or “screen”’ for a re-epidermalisation. Already in this description there is a hint of the importance of photography to this politics of representation – in the sense that, as the technique of analogue photography positivises the negative, so too would these new images of the black body. A key exhibition in London’s ICA in 1997, Mirage, extended the notion of what this re-epidermalisation might mean, not simply as political correctness, but as an interrogation of the internalised fantasies of blackness that circulate in both white and black culture as a result of incorporating the oppressor’s gaze (Art and Psychoanalysis by Maria Walsh).?

  

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Sorry, but I can't answer any of this. It is in almost pure jargon and presupposes a reality I am unfamiliar with.

  • Sorry, but I can't answer any of this.
  • It is in almost pure jargon and presupposes a reality I am unfamiliar with.
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Sorry, but I can't answer any of this. It is in almost pure jargon and presupposes a reality I am unfamiliar with.

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