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NIKKI SULLIVAN is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University./e She has published articles on body modification, self-mutilation, and queer theory.This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and

NIKKI SULLIVAN is a lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie University./e She has published articles on body modification, self-mutilation, and queer theory.

This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives.?-Contemporary Sociology.,."Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism. This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives."-Contemporary Sociology . This is the work's greatest strenght: It provides a creative point to begin building bridges between and beyond these two perspectives."-Contemporary Sociology?Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism. "Sullivan's work will offer students of the body, identity, and subjectivity and oppurtunity to extend classic debates between modernism and postmodernism

It challenges the ways in which identity and difference are discursively produced, particularly in psychological, criminological, and counter-cultural discourses. The writings of such theorists as Foucault, Levinas, Barthes, and Lingis are scrutinized to reveal how their discourse interprets the tattooed body as simply an aberrant threat to the body or simply a positive counter-cultural challenge. Drawing on the works of a number of postmodern theorists, this study suggests that the tattooed body is symptomatic of a general process of marking and being marked and is a social production of identity and difference. These theories are supplanted with this unique approach to notions of subjectivity, textuality, ethics, and pleasure and to the relationships among them.This examination of the role of the body in social, political, and ethical relations will attract scholars from a number of disciplines, including cultural studies, gender studies, philosophy, visual arts, sociology, and English. Shifting the focus away from what the tattooed body means to what it does, this work analyzes how it functions and what effects it produces. It will also appeal to critics and practitioners in contemporary practices of body modification.

What makes Sullivan's text successful ultimately however is not the amount of material that she draws on, but the clear way in which her own path through the issues raised is clearly articulated. The tattooed body, the 'subject in/of tattooing' is the locus of Sullivan's discussion; he/she/it provides a place where the at times abstract discussions of the above themes reverberate and are made (however provisionally) concrete. Textuality is another focus of Sullivan's work: here what is meant is the discursive nature of subjectivity. Not only does Sullivan engage with 'serious' texts such as psychological studies of tattooed persons, she also utilises 'fictional' works and dramatizations of tattooed and marked bodies that make this book more relevant and affecting than it might otherwise have been.This is all rather brief and jargonistic (and quite possibly wrong, but it's a start). Already I have spoken of ethics, rather of the ethical that the book discusses. As in Levinas' work, any discussion of the ethical necessarily raises questions of subjectivity (the self's construction and maintenance in the world) and of course, vice versa. Drawing upon Levinas' metaphysics of alterity to overcome limitations in Foucault's (later) model of transformative subjectivity, but going beyond this with Barthes, Lyotard and (Alphonso) Lingis, this work covers a lot of theoretical ground. Roland Barthes' work from 1968 onwards provides for this, and for the essential

• Title : Tattooed Bodies: Subjectivity, Textuality, Ethics, and Pleasure
• Author : Nikki Sullivan
• Rating : 4.63 (267 Vote)
• Publish : 2014-4-29
• Format : Hardcover
• Pages : 216 Pages
• Asin : 0275966755
• Language : English