Other than identity : the subject, politics and art

We are witnessing a Europe in turmoil, tormented by the violence of ethnic and nationalist struggles which legitimate themselves in the name of identity. This anthology explores the assumptions of identity by disassembling old myths and fictions of unity in relation to the subject, politics and art. Other than identity offers the possibility of rethinking the concept and introducing instead notions of self and other, identity politics and aesthetics.

Pt. 1. Refiguring identity in the subject. -- Figuring self-idenity: Blanchot's Bataille / Andrew Benjamin. -- Composite: I to 9 / Alan Curry. -- Fernando Pessoa: missing person / Richard Appignanesi. -- British, Muslim, writer / Ziauddin Sardar. -- Severed tales; or, Stories of art and excess in Nietzsche and Géricault. -- Pt. 2. Refiguring identity in politics. -- The ecstatic solace of culture: self, not-self and other; a psychoanalytic view / Claire Pajaczkowska. -- Nine out of many / Marysia Lewandowska. -- Xenophobia, fantasy and the nation: the logic of ethnic violence in former Yugoslavia / Glenn Bowman. -- The German handshake / Howard Caygill. -- Bad girls? Feminist identity politics in the 1990s / Katy Deepwell. -- Pt. 3 Refiguring identity in art. -- More and less than objects: unapproachable alterity and the work of Jana Sterbak and Rosemarie Trockel / Lewis Johnson. -- Unfold: imprecations of obscenity in the fold / Joan Key. -- Beyond identity? The beyond in Beyond Japan / John Gange. -- Painting another: other-than-painting / Juliet Steyn. -- Disappearing acts: an impossibility of identity / Janet Hand.