Angela Mitropoulos Read Bio Collapse
Angela Mitropoulos is a theorist and academic based in Sydney, Australia, Among other writings which track shifting boundaries and movements in the history of philosophy, science,aesthetics, politics and economics, She is the author of Contract & Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2014), and numerous other essays. Her current projects include a forthcoming book on infrastructures of un/common forms, and another on post-Fordist fascism.
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The Serpentine Dance hinted at an exoticism, but was often read as sublimation in the chemical sense: a phase transition between a solid body and a gaseous apparition, without quite passing through a liquid state. If the Serpentine Dance emerged in the turbulence of transatlantic crossings and the ports of empire, its characterization as a rapid circuit from a fixed body to air would treat liquescence as an inclination or step toward the figural, a referential tendency toward the affirmation of ideal forms rather than delight in afformation.
Jaroslava Tomanova