Rethinking Borders [Paperback]

The condition of borders has been crucial to many recent exhibitions, conferences and publications. But there does not yet exist a convincing critical frame for the discussion of border discourses. Rethinking Borders offers just such an introduction. It develops important contexts in art and architectural theory, contemporary film-making, criticism and cultural politics, for the proliferation of 'border theories' and 'border practices' that have marked a new stage in the debates over postmodernism, cultural studies and postcolonialism.List of Illustrations - Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction - A Matter of Tuning; T.T. Minh-ha - The Bleed: Body Meets Image; Brian Massumi - Response from P. Patton - Battle Lines; B.Colomina - Response from S.Best - The Cultural Periphery and Postmodern Decentering: Latin America's Reconversion of Borders; N.Richard - Sub-cultural Cross-dressing; C.Olalquiaga - Displacement in the Public Sphere; C.Merewether - Metramorphic Borderlinks and Matrixial Borderspace in Subjectivity as Encounter; B.Lichtenberg-Ettinger - The Philosophical Brothel; J.C.Welchman - Response from D.Avalos - Index