Sappington, Rodney and Tyler Stallings, eds.; Uncontrollable Bodies: Testimonies of Identity and Culture (1994) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “I’m sick and I don’t want a cure.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (06-10-14) Accession #: ICI-00642
Gallagher, Catherine and Thomas Whitney, eds.; The Making of the Modern Body: Sexuality and Society in the Nineteenth Century (1987) ICI Shelf: Body First Line: “Scholars have only recently discovered that the human body itself has a history.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: The Making of the Modern Body
Haraway, Donna J.; Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The reinvention of Nature (1991) ICI Shelf: New Media First Line: “The concept of the body politic is not new.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (02-25-14) Accession #: ICI-00590
Balsamo, Anne; Technologies of the Genered Body: Reading Cyborg Women (1996) ICI Shelf: Body Last Line: “The body also serves as the locus for thinking differently about both feminist histories and feminist futures, and the political aims of feminist cultural criticism more broadly.” ICI History: … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: Technologies of the Gendered Body
Kardon, Janet. Robert Mapplethorpe: The Perfect Moment (1988) ICI Shelf: Artist Monographs Last Line: “Pressed laurels upon intelligence/All with the generosity/ of a transforming /smile.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (12-15-12)
Koch, Stephen and Thomas Sokolowski. Peter Hujar (1990) ICI Shelf: Artist Mongraphs First Line: “Peter Hujar was remarkable photographer.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (12-12-12)
Owens, Craig. Beyond Recognition (1992) ICI Shelf: Philosophy First Line: “If you take a modernist and draw a line and say, I dare you to cross that line, the modernist will cross it.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (12-08-12)
Foucault, Michel. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1965) ICI Shelf: Philosophy First Line: “At the End of the Middle Ages, Leprosy disappeared from the Western world.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed (12-05-12)
Jarman, Derek Blue: Das Buch zum Film (1994) ICI Shelf: London First Line: “You say to the boy open your eyes” Last Line: “I place a delphinium, Blue, upon your grave.” ICI History: Today at the ICI — Twitter Feed: Last Line (12-03-11); First Line … Continue readingLIBRARY SHELF: BLUE
As a form of written language, the signature is, in theory, a symbolic sign. Its relationship to the person who creates it is arbitrary and based totally on convention and cultural practice. In reality, though, the signature is a very special form of written … Continue readingMax Sebald’s Signature