On Queer Neutrality: Disaffection in the Fashion Photo Story “Paradise Lost”

Filippello, Roberto

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“…The geographical inflection to this argument is that concealment, projection and resignation provide a spatiotemporal understanding of anaesthesia. Drawing inspiration from Filippello's (2019) description that unfeeling is a form of dwelling that does not dovetail with the feel of "being here", anaesthesia invites consideration of spatially and temporally complex forms of dwelling where we are involved in a practice, but we are feeling it differently because we are also elsewhere. Contrasting with Chen and Sun's (2020:1575) assertion that flexible workers are forced to focus on the "here-and-now", concealment, projection and resignation constitute a lateral movement of stepping outside a situation in space and time which subsequently changes one's capacity to be affected by that situation.…”

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The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour

Bissell

2021

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Building on critical geographic research on the embodied politics of labour that has explored how different forms of work transform bodily capacities for action, this paper argues that a body's capacity to be affected is an overlooked aspect of a labouring body's power. In response, the paper develops the concept of anaesthesia in relation to work by explaining how a reduced capacity to be affected can be both politically constraining and enabling for the bodies involved. Through qualitative fieldwork with digital platform workers, the paper presents three narratives that express the embodied complexities of this insecure work. Concealment, projection and resignation are explored as anaesthetic bodily tactics that constitute a refusal to inhabit certain depleting experiences. By drawing attention to such survival strategies, the paper highlights how workers' changing capacities for feeling are just as significant for understanding worker agency as their changing capacities for action.

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The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour

Bissell

2021

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Negative urbanism: unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in the platform city

Bissell¹

2022

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“White Trash”: Gestures and Profanations in the Visual Economy of Fashion

Filippello

2021

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture

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In this article, a photo story depicting "white trash" subjects in the act of defying middle-class proprieties of dress and manners serves as a case study for a critical exploration of the performative registers through which working-class bodies figure as agents of social sedition in the visual economy of fashion. The unglamorous and confrontational bodies in Memory-shot by Alexei Hay and Justine Parsons for Dutch in 2000-enact a parody of professional fashion models by exhibiting an exuberant, uncontained sexuality that cuts against the codes of "good taste" and decorum. The photo spread epitomizes how the vernacular aesthetic of "white trash" has been embraced by independent fashion magazines in order to unsettle the normative aesthetics associated with high fashion imagery and, more broadly, mainstream visual culture. Engaging with Giorgio Agamben's reflections on gesture and profanation, the article discusses the political effect of an overperformance of corporeality through prosaic, bawdy gestures and argues that the unboundedness of the bodies in the photo spread represents an affront to the capitalist regime of productivity from which these bodies are excluded. Finally, it highlights the contribution of the aesthetic category of "white trash" to the troubling of the representational conventions within the genre of editorial fashion photography and calls for a politically committed rethinking of the aesthetic consumption of fashion images.

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On Queer Neutrality: Disaffection in the Fashion Photo Story “Paradise Lost”

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour

The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour

Negative urbanism: unknowability, illegibility and ambivalence in the platform city

“White Trash”: Gestures and Profanations in the Visual Economy of Fashion

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