Currency

By Dana Teen Lomax and Cleo Qian

Poetry. "Dana Teen Lomax's work navigates the vexed relations of life behind the bars of the $$, where gender, race, and class are not merely "discourses" but lived vectors of experience, and where the logic of exchange value mediates that experience to the point where "the $u$pen$e i$ in the death toll$." CURRENCY is nothing less than an oppositional archeology of consumer culture as it reproduces its logics on and in our bodies--both personal and body-political--against a field of possibilities increasingly threatened by the privatization and colonization of the life-world. Writing a radical biopolitics--a "biopoethics"--would be that practice that articulates itself in resistant song, and, that in Lomax's expanded field, of necessity also dances, in paroxysms full of both rage and desire"--David Buuck.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0974318175
• ISBN13: 9780974318172
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Palm Press
• Length: 96 Pages