Friday, August 20, 2010

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Lugar: Grafógrafo: Libros y Café.

Día: Sábado 21 de agosto.

Hora: 19:30 hrs.

Dirección: Pasaje Rodríguez, en Av. Revolución entre calles 3ra y 4ta. Tijuana, Mexico.



Janice Lee. Escritora, artista, curadora y editora cuyos principales intereses se encuentran en las relaciones entre la metáfora de consciencia y la teoría neurocientífica.
Parte de su trabajo puede encontrarse en las revistas Big Toe Review, Zafusy, Antennae, Sidebrow, Action, Yes, Joyland, Luvina y Black Warrior Review. Fungió como editora asociada de Les Figues Press y fue co-directora de la hoy extinta publicación de literatura experimental, “Pulp”. Su primer libro, Kerotakis (Dog Horn Publishing, 2010), es una exploración multidisciplinaria que aborda ciborgs, neuronas y cortes de consciencia. Obtuvo la maestría en Escritura Creativa en CalArts y actualmente vive en Los Ángeles en donde es co-curadora de la serie de lecturas feministas, “Mommy, mommy!”, co-editora de la publicación online [out of nothing] y co-fundadora de la organización de artes interdisciplinarias, “Strophe”.

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WHY ‘FEMINISTS’ NEED TO READ JANICE LEE’S ‘TEXT’

BY MAXI KIM

When Janice Lee asked me to write something about her new book KEROTAKIS (2010 Dog Horn Publishing) my first instinct was to say no. Because quite frankly, I thought, Janice’s brilliant book spoke for itself. But after reading some of the reviews and high praise for KEROTAKIS, I feel compelled to add something to the discussion that might otherwise be lost. In “The Android and The Human,” an essay that Philip K. Dick wrote at the time of his research into “mind-in-becoming”, he remarks: “Cybernetics, a valuable recent scientific discipline, articulated by Norbert Wiener, saw valid comparisons between the behavior of machines and humans – with the view that a study of machines would yield valuable insights into the nature of our own behavior. . . .But suppose the use of this analogy is turned the other way. Suppose – and I don’t believe Wiener anticipated this – suppose a study of ourselves, our own nature, enables us to gain insight into the now extraordinary complex functioning and malfunctioning of mechanical and electronic constructs? . . . Rather than learning about ourselves by studying our constructs, perhaps we should make the attempt to comprehend what our constructs are up to by looking into what we ourselves are up to.” It is precisely against this background that I’d claim that future, yet-to-be becoming feminists... [leer más]