Micha Cárdenas

Publications by Micha Cárdenas:

• Trans Desire/Affective Cyborgs

  by Barbara Fornssler, Micha Cárdenas

  

  2010

  Paperback, 150 pages

  ISBN 0982530994

  Trans Desire explores the ramifications of using desire as the basis for contemporary political movements rooted in a struggle for autonomy, from the perspective of a transgender person about to begin hormone replacement therapy. It examines the affinities between psychoanalytic theories of desire, queer theory and biopolitics,...

  Publication Program: Think Media: EGS Media Philosophy Series 

  Keywords:  transgender, autonomy, bdsm, biopolitics, cyborg

• The Transreal Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities

  by Micha Cárdenas, Elle Mehrmand, Amy Sara Carroll

  

  2012

  Paperback, 206 pages

  ISBN 0983915245

  The Transreal: Political Aesthetics of Crossing Realities explores the use of multiple simultaneous realities as a medium in contemporary art, including mixed reality, augmented reality and alternate reality approaches. Building on the notion of "trans" from transgender, signifying the crossing of boundaries, the book proposes that transrea...