Sarah Kember defines a figuration as
an alternative verbal or visual image which embodies a
transformation in the terms of knowledge, power and subjectivity. It strategically
resists and competes with the structures of Patriarchy and the Enlightenment
- specifically a gendered and hierarchical dualism which privileges culture
over nature, mind over body, male over female. Its usual mode of operation
is parody.
(Kember, Sarah, handout given at the conference "Wired Women: Virtual
Worlds/Real Lives", University of Portsmouth, 8/3/1997)
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