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Jane Caputi

ph.d.

bio

Jane Caputi is Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Florida Atlantic University.  She has written many articles and authored three books, including Goddesses and Monsters: Women, Myth, Power and Popular Culture.  She also has made two educational documentaries, The Pornography of Everyday Life (distributed by Berkeley Media) and Feed the Green: Feminist Voices for the Earth (distributed by Women Make Movies). 

title

"'Color Nature Gone'? Shiny Whiteness in Posthuman iconography"

abstract

In popular iconography (film and TV, advertising, poster art) , the posthuman regularly is signified by shiny whiteness, indoor spaces, thinness and hairlessness of any human-like figures (e.g., the Svedka “Fembot” in the vodka ads).  Possible associations include the white lab coat – a visual metonymy for the scientific method, or futurism as in 2001 A Space Odyssey.  But whiteness also is a signpost for sterility, for a purification of all associated with fructuous and mortal nature – green plant life as well as green rot, black earth, blue sky, red fire, carnality, animality, matter, leaky, hairy, mortal bodies, the bloody maternal/feminine, the dark skin of stigmatized "others."   A colorless world –and its relation to ecocide was deplored in a 1974 song by the Native American band XIT, “Color Nature Gone.”  I illustrate this iconography and further consider the relation of symbolic whiteness to ecocide and related systems (sexism, racism, ableism, speciesism).

event

NYU Global Symposium 2016
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