Open AccessDisarticulating Bellies: A Reproductive Glance
Author(s) -
Lisa McDonald
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
cultural studies review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.116
H-Index - 2
eISSN - 1837-8692
pISSN - 1446-8123
DOI - 10.5130/csr.v13i1.2163
Subject(s) - publishing , epistemology , sociology , art history , philosophy , art , literature
Medical imaging/imagining of the unborn, it is thought, constitutes, and is constituted, within geographies and effects of inscription, forcing us to contemplate the tensions between biology and text. In this article, dialogue between the mysteries of difference, ‘of différance’ and the partiality of critique is used to deploy a digressive optic through which to imagine possibilities for a logic of sight. The author asks: ‘What might a ‘fetus’ hear from wor[l]ds well placed to deselect?