7. The Vice of the Virtual Witness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Fetish and the Gaze 1
5. I. Introducing Lacan
6. 1. The Song Not the Singer: Signifier, Objet a, Fetish 15
7. 2. Body and Text: The Roots of the Unconscious 33
8. II. Fetish
9. 3. A Slave to Desire: Defetishizing the Colonial Subject 45
10. 4. Fetish and the Native Subject 57
11. III. Socializing The Psychic: From Interpellation To Gaze
12. 5. Interpellation, Antagonism, Repetition 73
13. 6. The Ambassador's Body: Unscreening the Gaze 97
14. 7. The Vice of the Virtual Witness 119
15. 8. Seeing Texts 133
16. IV. Interpassivity And The Postmodern
17. 9. Interpassivity and the Knowing Wink: Mystery Science Theater 3000 153
18. 10. Crash and Subversion 171
19. Appendix: The Oedipus Connection 185
20. Bibliography 193
21. Index 197