Video | Hortense Spillers: "To the Bone: Some Speculations on the Problem of Touch"
November 19, 2018
Hortense Spillers -- "To the Bone: Some Speculations on the Problem of Touch"
November 15, 2018 @ Northwestern University
This project takes up the question of the ambivalence of touch and what the latter might reveal about the uses of power, both as a boon to freedom in its erotic and affective register and, contrastively, the first step toward unfreedom.
Hortense Spillers is an American literary critic, Black Feminist scholar and the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor at Vanderbilt University. Introduction by Nick Davis (Associate Professor in English and Gender & Sexuality Studies).