Includes bibliographical references (p. [213]-224) and index.
1.Binary terror and the body made explicit --Re-vamping the ghosts of modernism --Beside herself: postmodern artists and modern whores --Eye/Body: Carolee Schneemann beside herself --2.Logic of the twister, eye of the storm --Impasse: unnatural acts --Twister: looking into looking out --3.Permission to see --Gender in perspective: have we really gone beyond? --Refusal to vanish --Castration anxiety in perspective --Ghostly horrors: looking at the past, seeing through the body --4.secret's eye --No accident: commodity bodies --Embodying disembodiment --Radical sex activism, satiability, and the commodity --Two-way streetwalkers --Explosive literality --Literal shrouds and dreamscape re-interments --5.After us the savage goddess --Seeing back through --Primitive techniques --Dark continence: reading the thrall and the threat --Dark incontinence: Ubu Roi and savage primitivism --Dada's big drum: primitivism and the performative --Hard primitivism, base matter, and the blindspot --Literal primitives --6.Seeing the big show --First, a story about doubt that includes a reverberation --White nostalgia, authenticity, and the split subject --Spiderwoman: the early days --Vigilant repetitions, the comic turn, and counter-mimicry --irruption of "real stuff" and the politic of sacrality --irruption of grandmothers and the reality of dreams.Epilog: returning from the dead.