Bad Girls and Sick Boys: Fantasies in Contemporary Art and Culture

Linda S. Kauffman turns the pornography debate on its head with this audacious analysis of recent taboo—shattering fiction, film, and performance art. Investigating the role of fantasy in art, politics, and popular culture, she shows how technological advances in medicine and science (magnetic resonance imaging, computers, and telecommunications) have profoundly altered our concepts of the human body. Cyberspace is producing new forms of identity and subjectivity. The novelists, filmmakers,...