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Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Contemporary Art book cover

1st Edition

Antisemitism, Homophobia, and Contemporary Art

By Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* Copyright 2026
152 Pages 5 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

152 Pages 5 Color & 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This book analyzes synchronization as a symptom of the contemporary art world. Acting as a tool within present-day social, economic, and political systems, synchronization assigns individuals to predetermined forms of representation. At its core, this book challenges normative synchronization concepts as projections of a unity of bodies and voices, past and present, self and environment. The... Read more

1. Chapter_1                                                      

 

Synchronization as Norm - Philosophical Genealogies of De/Synchronization - Con-Temporaneity, Chronophobia, and Paranoia - The Pathology of Antisemitic Resentment - The Slave Market - Orientalism’s Double Referentiality - In the Loge - The Sale of a Child Slave - A Wish that Gay People not Exist - Claude Cahun - Orientalism and Antisemitism – Zanele Muholi – God’s Phallus

 

2. Chapter_2                                                      

 

Chronology and Anachronism - Fantasy of Redemption - Moscow in the 1980s - To Read One’s Own Desire - Time of the Other or Temporal Denial?  - Exposing the Denial of Anachronism - Unconscious Thought - Envy - Problematizing Feminist Decolonial Proposals of Making Kinship

 

3. Chapter_3                                                      

 

Guilt-free Societies of Labor - Guest labor, forced labor - The Primal Scene of Narrative - „Never forgetting.“ “Wir haben ein Recht auf Arbeit.” “I AM A MAN.” “Lezbyjka na prezydenta.” - Conditional and Unconditional/Absolute Hospitality - Ideology of Cultural Survival - Weak Messianic Force - The Ghost is the Phenomenon of the Spirit - Irresistible Irony - The Primal Scene of Slavery - I am a (WO)man

 

4. Chapter_4                                                      

 

Drama - Hegel and Haiti - Eisenstein and Pudovin: Beyond Perception as a Right to Possess - Psychoanalytical Feminists’ Proposal for a Universalist Perspective - Les Rendez-vous d’Anna - Black Motherhood - Coexistence, Chora – The Primal Scene of Lesbian Sexuality

 

 

Conclusion: From Aesthetics to Politics and Back      

Biography

Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic* is an artist, researcher, and writer working within and about contemporary art, art history, cultural studies, and critical theory

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