Theories of Representation and Difference

The Domain-Matrix

Performing Lesbian at the End of Print Culture

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"This book demonstrates Case's continued dominance of the field of lesbian performance studies. . . . Case's dense, rich, and complex work very likely will be a central text for anyone interested in debating the changing theoretical landscape for performance studies and queer theory. All readers interested in what the future might hold for scholarship in the humanities should study Case's thought-provoking work, which is an essential addition to any college or university's collection." ―Choice". . . this is a book that is enormously provocative, that will make you think and feel connected with the latest speculation on the implications of the electronic age we inhabit." ―Lesbian Review of Books". . . definitely required reading for any future-thinking lesbian." ―Lambda Book ReportThe Domain-Matrix is about the passage from print culture to electronic screen culture and how this passage affects the reader or computer user. Sections are organized to emulate, in a printed book, the reader's experience of computer windows. Case traces the portrait of virtual identities within queer and lesbian critical practice and virtual technologies.

THE DOMAIN-MATRIX: CRUISING SURFING THE MATRIX
I. Re-Charging Essentialism A. Queer Performativity B. Burying the Live Body C. Performing Reading D. The End of Print Culture
II. Toward a Politics of Space A. Semio-Space B. Cyberspace C. Getting the Point D. Voudou E. Lesbian, Siamesian Space Cadets
III. First Contact: Murderous Heavenly Creatures A. Matricide Engenders Nation B. Rope-ing in the Virtual C. Swoon-ing into Cyberspace D. The Prison of PrintOs Return
IV. The Computer Cometh A. A Revision of the Gaze B. Out of Focus C. Blanking Out D. Playing the Cyberstreet: Hamlet Reversed E. Turbo-Lesbo F. The Hot Rod Bodies of Cybersex G. Driving My Mouse H. Tripping into Cyber-Revolution
V. Body as Flesh Zone A. The Body Acts B. The Transsexual Body C. Screenic Interrupt D. The Romance of the Knife E. Performing the Cut: Orlan and Kate Bornstein F. Screen/Skin/Utopia: The Lesbian Society
CASE STUDIES: PERFORMANCE AND THE SCREEN BRINGING HOME THE MEAT: MATERIALIST SPATIAL DESIGNS OF NATION AND STAGE LOS ANGELES: A TOPOGRAPHY OF SCREENIC PROPERTIES THE BOTTOM SOURCES INDEX