Presentacion basada en el capitulo del libro de Cohen, Monster culture

1. Monster culture
Seven theses

2. Thesis # 1: The monster body
 It is a cultural body
 It is born at a certain cultural moment of a time, a feeling and place
 The monster body is a construct and a projection
 Monstrous that which reveals, that which warns

3. Thesis # 2: The monster always escapes
 The monster is incorporeal
 The monster returns… in a different context to be modified by the
contemporary culture

4. Thesis # 3: The monster refuses categorization
 The monster is the harbinger of category crisis
 They reject categorization
 Hybrids
 Monsters rebuke boundaries and enclosures
 The geography of the monster is a contested cultural space

5. Thesis # 4:
The monster dwells at the gates of difference
 It is as a dialectical OTHER
 It comes from outside, from beyond
 Different from the cultural, social, racial, economic or sexual stand point
 The monster can be displaced or marginalized because its monstrosity
justifies its displacement

6. Thesis # 5: The monster polices the borders
 Curiosity is punished
 The monster delineates social spaces
 The monster prevents mobility into monstrous spaces
 Transgression can lead to becoming a moster

7. Thesis # 6 Fear & Desire
 The monster is linked to the forbidden
 The monster attracts
 The monster entices
 The monster dwells in exotic places
 It lurks in that ambiguous, primal space between fear and attraction

8. Thesis # 7: The monster stands at the threshold
of ….becoming
 Monsters always return
 They are our children
 They ask us how we perceive the world
 They ask us to re-evaluate our cultural assumptions about race, sexuality,
difference
 That´s why we have created them