Self-Identity is a Bad Visual System Self–identity is a bad visual system. Theory is passionate fiction. These are two statements that, even or just because of their isolation from their original context, are both open enough to let loose our thoughts, and precise enough to become sharp tools of criticism. The first one is from Donna Haraway’s seminal essay “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective” (1988), and the second one is by Teresa de Lauretis in The Practice of Love: Lesbian Sexuality and Perverse Desire (1994)… Susanne von Falkenhausen, “Art”, August 21st 2015 http://supercommunity.e-flux.com/texts/self-identity-is-a-bad-visual-system/
