Terre Thaemlitz
Nuisance
Writings on identity jamming & digital audio production
Softcover
386 pages
ISBN 978-3-902902-39-9
EUR 19,95 (incl. VAT)
challenge GENDER – Volume 5
Series edited by the Gender Research
Office at the University of Vienna
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1 : a thing, person or situation that is annoying, inconvenient, or causes trouble or problems;
2 : behavior which is harmful, offensive or annoying to the public or a member of it and that a court of law can order the person to stop.
This book compiles articles, essays, lecture transcripts, album annotations and other texts written by queer audio producer and writer Terre Thaemlitz between 1996 and 2015.
The overall theme uniting the texts is a defense of pessimism and a critical rejection of the incessant optimism lurking at the core of virtually all media – even in the “critical fields” themselves, where it reflects our conformity to those First World humanist and capitalist practices we wish to critique.
Additional new commentary notes by Terre Thaemlitz explain why the texts sometimes still fraudulently use positive terminology, and break up the linearity of the reading process – thus incorporating the theme of “nuisance” throughout the book.
Terre Thaemlitz (1968) is an award winning multi-media producer, writer, public speaker, educator, audio remixer, DJ and owner of the Comatonse Recordings record label. Her work combines a critical look at identity politics – including gender, sexuality, class, linguistics, ethnicity and race – with an ongoing analysis of the socio-economics
of commercial media production. His writings on culture and music have been published internationally in a number of books, academic journals and magazines. As a speaker and educator on issues of non-essentialist Transgenderism and Queerness, Thaemlitz has lectured and participated in panel discussions throughout Europe and Japan. As of January, 2001, he resides in Kawasaki, Japan.
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