The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of Int... - 9781501392139

The Maternal, Digital Subjectivity, and the Aesthetics of InterruptionAuthor(s): EL Putnam\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781501392139, 978-1501392139\nSynopsis\nBringing together philosophies of the maternal with digital technology may appear to be an arbitrary pairing. However, reading them intertextually through select creative practices reveals how both encompass an aesthetics of interruption that becomes a novel means of understanding subjectivity.\nEL Putnam investigates how the digital performances of certain artists, creators, and technologists rupture existing representations of the maternal, taking advantage of the formal properties of digital media. What results are interruptions of visual and aural constructions through an immanent merging of the performing body with digital technologies.\nPutnam bases her analysis on close examinations of the way certain makers use the formal properties of .