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Cindy Sherman
Nipples, 1990/1991
C-print, 33 x 22,9 cm, ed. 100
Every technological innovation, McLuhan says, implies a radical reordering of the
human nervous system. Postmodern experience no longer conforms to the printcentered,
phallocentric paradigm of a distanced, objectifying, linear, and perspectival
vision. Now, in the age of video and computers, of genetic engineering and prosthetic
surgery, the eye touches rather than sees; it immerses itself in the photograph, to
be traversed by its erotic and emetic flows, and caressed and violated all along its
surfaces.
So this is what it means to be a woman. Femininity, we now realize, is a variable
construction, not a pre-given mythological essence. Ladies are made and not born.
It's not enough just to have a cunt, or XX chromosomes, in order to become a woman.
Genes can be spliced, and cunts, too, are prosthetically manufactured. But how,
then, are women constructed? Femininity is less an effect of language or ideology,
than it is the result of an actual labor upon the body. - Steven Shaviro, Doom Patrols
(http://www.dhalgren.com/Doom/ch07.html).
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