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Shedding Light For The Matter
Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
DOI: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2000.tb00323.x
2000 by Hypatia, Inc.
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Hypatia
Special Issue: Going Australian: Reconfiguring Feminism and Philosophy
Volume 15, Issue 2, pages 202–216, May 2000
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Bolt, B. (2000), Shedding Light For The Matter. Hypatia, 15: 202–216. doi: 10.1111/j.1527-2001.2000.tb00323.x
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- Issue published online: 9 JAN 2009
- Article first published online: 9 JAN 2009
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This paper critiques enlightenment notions of representation and rehearses an alternative model of mapping that is grounded in performance. Working from her own practice as a landscape painter, Bolt argues that the particular experience of the “glare” of Australian light fractures the nexus between light, form, knowledge, and subjectivity. This rupture prompts a move from shedding light ON the matter to shedding light FOR the matter and suggests an emergent rather than a representational practice.