Introduction
Corporeal calligraphies in times of change
The long 1980s: redefining the temporality of art
From curatorial to historical revisionism
Beyond the art of post-dictatorship
From memory studies to the aesthetics of dissensus
The performative turn
The ethics of performance
Overview of chapters
Chapter 1 – Writing the Body
A precarious aesthetic
A monstrous scene
Territories of excess
Sacrificial bodies
Neonic Obscenity
A mystical occasion
Sor Teresa, la Lumpérica
A corporeal rhetoric
The implicated self
Chapter 2 – Lamentations
Prayerful acts
Sky writing and the poetics of ambiguity
The new life
Song for his/her disappeared love
The politics of lamentation
Purgatory
Neither sorrow nor fear
(Un)godly fragments
Chapter 3 – Mē mou haptou: Touch, Ethics, and History
Waiting for Ariel
A political medium?
A tortured era
A glimpse into 1960s collage
Noli me tangere
Brailles
The haptic gaze
Never Again
Scenes from inferno
Pacem in terris
Chapter 4 – Nudities
Le féminin
Christs and mannequins
Divine phobia
Intimacy reawakened
A scourge from God?
Chapter 5 – Ritual and/of Violence
Potlatch
The scene of destruction
The scene of war
Mexico’s parodic guerrilla art
The scene of ritual
Liminal personae
The scene of terror
Letter bombing
The scene of the self
Exploding time
Chapter 6 – Cybernetics and Face-off Play
The hybrid face
The interface
Facial traces
The (post-)facial matrix
Conclusion
Touched bodies
The trace
Acknowledgments
List of References
List of Figures
Index
