UNIVERSITY of CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE Collaborative
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA RIVERSIDE Collaborative Aesthetics and the Politics of Trans-Subjectivity A Dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Comparative Literature by April Louise Durham August 2013 Dissertation Committee: Dr. James S. Tobias, Co-Chairperson Dr. Marguerite Waller, Co-Chairperson Dr. Sabine Doran Dr. Jeffrey Sacks Copyright by April Louise Durham 2013 The Dissertation of April Louise Durham is approved: Committee Co-Chairperson Committee Co-Chairperson University of California, Riverside Acknowledgments In a project on collaboration, there are necessarily many, many people who inspire, contribute, and commingle and whose contributions are felt on every page of this long consideration. I list a few of them here: Damien Airault, Patrick Bernier, Juliet Conlon, Dessislava Dimova, Nico Dockx, Christie Frields, Christine Laquet, Olive Martin, Michelle Naismith, Douglas Park, Merryn Singer, Sharon Suhovy. These artists and curators and writers and organizers have all interrupted a confined sense of myself that I held dear at some point or other. The disruptions have been beautiful, terrifying, and ultimately transformational. I have had so many lovely, engaging, and rigorous conversations with my academic colleagues at UCR including Tanya Rawal with her conviction that she needs to change the world, and Kimberly Hall whose graciousness and unflagging energy have inspired me again and again. Others include Michael Podolny, Edward Troy, Richard Hunt, and Regina Yung-Lee. In addition to long-term and short-term commitments to shared creative and scholarly practice, some others have willingly stepped into the void, repeatedly, with me. Linda Parnell has shared her strange and persistent curiosity and wandered in the desert with me for these many years, even when our paths were slightly different.
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