Erotics of Deconstruction

Lynn Turner is a Reader in Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. She is the author of Poetics of Deconstruction: on the threshold of differences (Bloomsbury, 2020), co-editor, with Undine Sellbach and Ron Broglio, of The Edinburgh Companion to Animal Studies (EUP, 2018), editor of The Animal Question in Deconstruction (EUP, 2013) and co-author, with Astrid Schmetterling, of Visual Cultures As… Recollection (Sternberg, 2013).

I have never been so moved by a book about Derrida, or about sex. It moves, you could say. It dazzles and moves. It moves animal or biological, dorsal, secret, violent, bloody, nonbinary, masturbatory, vocal or spoken in tongues, historical, artistic, maternal, decomposing, technological and more. Just brilliant.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsAcknowledgementsLapping It Up: An Introduction for these Erotics of Deconstruction (Lynn Turner)Part I: Procreativity1. Derrida’s Tongues (Elissa Marder)2. Spoonful: The Dorsal Deconstruction of Eroticism (David Wills)3. Two Pirouettes: The Politics of Spoiling (for) Fun in Preciado’s Revolutionary Vitalism and Derrida’s Death Drive (Eszter Timár)4. Double Blind Date (Naomi Waltham-Smith)5. Postscript: Deconstruction and Love (Nicholas Royle)Part II: Vulnerability6. Sanguine Resistance: Dreaming of a Future for Blood (Lynn Turner)7. Touch, Flesh, Wound and the Caress of the Screen (Elizabeth Wijaya)8. No Deconstruction Without Pleasure: Openings, Tunnels and Holes (Quinn Eades)9. Bodies in E-motion: Kofman and Cixous Encountering Rembrandt (Lenka Vráblíková)10. Voice and Sextuality (Anne Emmanuelle Berger)Part III: Panthropology11. The Masturbating Animal: The Auto-hetero-affection of the Living (Nicole Anderson)12. Playing the Field: Non-non-binary Promiscuity (Vicki Kirby)13. ‘Gene for Gene’: Cloning, ‘Sexiness’ and the (Post)Maternal in Carola Dibbell’s The Only Ones (Naomi Morgenstern)14. Erotics of Decomposition: Cells and their Oceans (Elina Staikou)Index