The Fast Feminist [FF] is a post
gender provocateur; not so much a gender terrorist,
as a gender risk-taker always going the distance
with her body, pushing the limits of what a body
defined as female does, a post or past female Zarathustra,
passionately engaged in an ethical nihilistic endeavor
of living … (p.1)
Grounded in the female phallus,
fast feminism is not about location [postmodern feminism,
postfeminism, third
wave feminism, queer theory, cyber feminism, hypermasculinist
speed theory]; rather, it’s about gait; it does
what Levinas says about Maurice
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Blanchot’s writing: the I in it is “identified
by gait rather location,” Blanchot’s text propels
you through locations. “Fragmentary
writing is risk, it would seem: risk itself. It is not based
on any theory[.]” Fast Feminism obviously does it
on different terrains; gaiting, or speed-walking through
locations,
morphing events, cross-breeding philosophies, interfacing
fast sex fables. Morphing events - female ejaculation,
drag
kinging, queer postporn practice, the Bosnian and Croatian
women's movements' fight against war and post war gendercide,
child pornography - with Bataille and Stelarc's excess of
risk, or risk of excess, barely held together by Levinasian
pragmatics; instructed by the beauty of Jean Francois Lyotard's
response - Postmodern Fables - to the postmodern
philosophy he was so instrumental in defining. Lyotard
summarizes
the postmodern plight in three short sentences: "Today,
life is fast. It vaporizes morals ... But that doesn't keep
us from asking questions: how to live and why?" Lyotard's
response: ethical fables premised on living and in his living
and telling a doing of Levinasian pragmatics.
Fast Feminism is a doing of philosophy
with the intensity of speed and the nihlism of not caring
that the sites don't mesh; speed morphing is alchemical. “Asking questions
seems to preface giving an answer. In the realm of fast feminism
the speed of questioning erases the necessity of answering.
FF has too many places to go and not time to stop and answer.
A question is a mode of accelerated thought. An answer collapses
into stasis. Excess is speedy acquisition. Indifference is
bracketed not in the nexus of nihilism [as it was in world
that was not indifferent], but in the aura of annihilation.”(Stelarc,
2002, email communication)
FF has the female phallus – her own territory; thus
any territory she enters is FF territory. FF’s bearing
is pornosophical, a state of existence that has evaporated
both pornography and philosophy beyond alchemical mix; her
nihilism, thought and enacted nihilistically, annihilates
held distinctions. FF prefers lethal to toxic. (p.19)
Contents
| Chapter 1. |
The Fast Feminist and Fast Feminism
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| Chapter 2. |
The Female Phallus – ‘Something to See’ |
37 |
| Chapter 3. |
The Perverse Aesthetic of an Infamous Child Pornographer:
Robin Sharpe |
140 |
| Chapter 4. |
The Will to Laughter. A Fast Feminist Bataillean
Narration |
237 |
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Portal 1. Paying for Eternity: Time with Mistress
Patricia |
259 |
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Portal 2. Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia: A Field
Excursion |
263 |
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Portal 3. Pussy Palace Raid |
281 |
| Chapter 5. |
Post-Porn/Post-Anti-Porn: Queer Cyber Gender Fuckers |
286 |
| Chapter 6. |
Un-concluding, Unknowing, Enacting |
316 |
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