Media-Bodies: what Kim Kardashian’s vulva can teach us about contemporary life
This CISC Seminar explores the notion of ‘media-bodies’ and shows how Kim Kardashian-West’s vulva discursively and corporally demonstrates a cultural compulsion wherein skin must ‘speak’ its owner’s beauty, and where the appearances of bodies on screens are equally if not more important than their capacities as feeling, touching, mobile objects.