Shannon Bell

Bell is researching extreme science and art for her book entitled Fast Bodies; this research is funded by Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC). Bell's most recent on-going research project Shooting Theory (2007–20) brings together digital video technology and print textual philosophy/theory through imaging philosophical/theoretical concepts. Bell's research also includes: applying continental and post-structural theory to bio, techno and performance artists’ artwork and thinkers’ body of work; aspects of sexuality; and, General Semantics.

Books

• Bell, Shannon (1994). Reading, writing, and rewriting the prostitute body. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. ISBN 9780585000992.
• Bell, Shannon (1995). Whore carnival. Brooklyn, NY: Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570270222.
• Bell, Shannon; Cossman, Brenda; Gotell, Lise, eds. (1997). Bad attitude/s on trial: pornography, feminism, and the Butler decision. Toronto Buffalo: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781282045750.
• Bell, Shannon; Albritton, Robert; Bell, John R.; Westra, Richard, eds. (2004). New socialisms futures beyond globalization. London New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780203390894.
• Bell, Shannon (2010). Fast feminism. New York: Autonomedia. ISBN 9781570271892.
• Bell, Shannon; Kulchyski, Peter K., eds. (2013). Subversive itinerary: the thought of Gad Horowitz. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 9781442645325.
• Gad Horowitz and Shannon Bell, eds (2016). The Book of Radical General Semantics (Delhi: Pencraft International) ISBN 9789382178170.

Co-authored Book

Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki Ross (2017) Bad Attitude\s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) [Republished in The Canadian 150 Collection].

Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, Lise Gotell, Becki Ross (1997) Bad Attitude\s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism and the Butler Decision (Toronto: University of Toronto Press).

Chapters in books

Bell, Shannon (2018) “The Ugly Gaze,” On the Politics of Ugliness, eds. Ela Przybylo and Sara Rodrigues (New York: Palgrave Macmillan), 411-26.

Bell, Shannon (2018) “Stelarc: HyperObject,” Stelarc. Stretched Skin—Obsolete, Uncertain and Indifferent Body, ed. Håvve Fjell (Oslo, Norway: PS Media) 235-9.

Bell, Shannon (2018) “Fluid Truth,” Solitary Pleasures, ed. Marquard Smith (London: Live Art Development Agency), 42-63. (Excerpted reprint of 2014 “Fluid Truth,” InterAlia. A Journal of Queer Studies special issue Bodily Fluids).

Bell, Shannon (2018) “‘Dialectics at a Standstill’ – CONSTELACIONES in the Atacama Desert,” Return Atacama Digital Book, eds. Roewan Crowe and Helene Vosters (New York: Hemi Press), October. https://returnatacama.tome.press/chapter/dialectics-at-a-standstill-constelaciones-in-the-atacama-desert/

Bell, Shannon (2018) “Fouring in Echoes,” Return Atacama Digital Book, eds. Roewan Crowe and Helene Vosters (New York: Hemi Press 2018), October. https://returnatacama.tome.press/chapter/echoes-northnorth/

Bell, Shannon (2017) “Kira O’Reilly: Techné of Anxiety,” Kira O’Reilly: Untitled (Bodies), eds. Harriet Curtis & Martin Hargreaves (London and Bristol: Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books), 114-135.

Bell, Shannon (2016) “Facing the Elemental: Amanda Boetzkes, Emmanuel Levinas and Shooting Theory,” Blue Plastic Marble. Catalyst: Amanda Boetzkes, ed. Ted Hiebert (Victoria and Seattle: Noxious Sector Press), 125-39.

Bell, Shannon (2016) “Philosophizing with a Scalpel. From Nietzsche to Nina Arsenault,” The Digital Dionysus: Nietzsche & the Network-Centric Condition, eds. Dan Mellamphy and Nandita Biswas Mellamphy (Brooklyn: Punctum), 236-248.

Bell, Shannon (2015) "Guy Ben-Ary, The Work of Accelerated Fastness" Nervoplastica: Guy Ben-Ary. Bio-Robotic Art and Its Cultural Contexts ed. Ryszard Kluszczynski (Gdansk: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art), [English and Polish pp. 98–135]

Bell, Shannon (2013) Chapter 8. “Gad ben Rachel ve Aharon: Parrhesiastes,” Subversive Itinerary: The Thought of Gad Horowitz, ed. Shannon Bell and Peter Kulchyski (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), [pp. 133–155].

Bell, Shannon (2013) “The Accident of Art,” The Virilio Dictionary, ed. John Armitage (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press) [pp. 19–22, 1000 words].

Bell, Shannon (2013) “Fast Feminism,” The Virilio Dictionary, ed. John Armitage (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press), [pp. 83–85, 1000 words].

Bell, Shannon (2012)“Nina Arsenault: Fast Feminist Object a,” TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault: An Unreasonable Body of Work, ed. Judith Rudakoff (UK: Intellect Books) [pp. 93–108].

Bell, Shannon (2010) Chapter Seven. “The Fungi Dress - A Living Garment, Interview with Donna Franklin,” Fashion Statements, On Style, Appearance and Reality, eds. Ron Scapp & Brian Seitz (New York:Palgrave McMillan) [pp. 49–55].

Bell, Shannon (2010) Chapter Eight. “Victimless Leather - A Prototype of Stitch-less Jacket grown in a Technoscientific ‘Body’,” Fashion Statements, On Style, Appearance and Reality, eds. Ron Scapp & Brian Seitz (New York:Palgrave McMillan) [pp.57-67].

Bell, Shannon (2008) “Istvan Kantor: Machinery Execution,” Cinematic Folds: the furling and unfurling of images, ed. Firoza Elavia Bell, (Toronto: Pleasure Dome) [pp. 109–15].

Bell, Shannon (2006) “Levinas and Alterity Politics,” Difficult Justice: Comments on Levinas and Politics, eds. Asher Horowitz and Gad Horowitz. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press) [pp. 111–26].

• Bell, Shannon (2002), "Liquid fire", in Johnson, Merri L. (ed.), Jane sexes it up: true confessions of feminist desire, New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, pp. 327–345, ISBN 9781568581804.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Bell, Shannon (2004), "Post-porn\post-anti-porn: queer socialist pornography", in Bell, Shannon; Albritton, Robert; Bell, John R.; Westra, Richard (eds.), New socialisms futures beyond globalization, London New York: Routledge, pp. 139–156, ISBN 9780203390894.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Bell, Shannon (2006), "Levinas and Alterity Politics", in Horowitz, Asher; Horowitz, Gad (eds.), Difficult justice commentaries on Levinas and politics, Toronto, Ontario: University of Toronto Press, pp. 111–126, ISBN 9780802080097.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Bell, Shannon (2008), "Istvan Kantor: machinery execution", in Elavia, Firoza (ed.), Cinematic folds: the furling and unfurling of images, Toronto: Pleasure Dome, pp. 109–115, ISBN 9780968211540.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)* Bell, Shannon (2010), "Victimless leather - a prototype of stitch-less jacket grown in a technoscientific "Body"", in Scapp, Ron; Seitz, Brian (eds.), Fashion statements: on style, appearance, and reality, New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 57–67, ISBN 9780230105423.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
• Bell, Shannon (2010), "The fungi dress - a living garment, interview with Donna Franklin", in Scapp, Ron; Seitz, Brian (eds.), Fashion statements: on style, appearance, and reality, New York, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 49–55, ISBN 9780230105423.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

See also: Hoffman, Tessa (18 November 2009). "The fungus gown that grows". Melbourne Leader (lifestyle section). News Community Media. Archived from the original on 4 December 2013. Retrieved 17 June 2013.

• Bell, Shannon (2012), "Nina Arsenault: fast feminist "object a"", in Rudakoff, Judith (ed.), Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault: an unreasonable body of work, Bristol: Intellect, ISBN 9781841505718.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

Journal articles

Bell, Shannon (2018) “In Defense of Transgression,” Red Wedge #6: In Defense of Transgression, October. (released online May 1, 2019 http://www.redwedgemagazine.com/online-issue/in-defense-of-transgression)

Bell, Shannon with Gad Horowitz (2017), “Expenditure – Mount Etna: Walking with Bataille,” Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought, No. 5, 2016–17, Spring, 95-102.

Bell, Shannon with Gad Horowitz (2016), “Salt Icon of Zero: Shooting Zero in Ancient Lands,” Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought, No. 4, 2016–17, Autumn, 45-51.

2016 “Shooting Theory – An Accident of Fast Feminism,” video and transcript of talk, Transversing Technologies, eds. Patrick Keilty and Leslie Regan Shade, The Scholar & Feminist Online Journal, Barnard Center for Research on Women, Issue 13.3 - 14.1. http://sfonline.barnard.edu/traversing-technologies/shannon-bell-shooting-theory/

2014 “Fluid Truth,” InterAlia. A Journal of Queer Studies special issue Bodily Fluids, edited by Kamillea Aghtan, Michael O’Rourke and Karin Sellberg, #9 (2014), 49-71. http://interalia.org.pl/en/artykuly/current_issue_2014_9.htm

2014 “Fragment of a Case of Posthysteria: D’or Owns the Jewel,” Hysteria Manifest: Cultural Lives of a Great Disorder, eds. Ela Przybylo and Derrit Mason, Special Issue of English Studies Canada (ESC), Vol 40.1, March, 189-210.

2014 “Shooting Theory,” Anekaant: A Journal of Polysemic Thought, No 2 (2014), 39-44.

2013 “Out of Skin,” Filozofski vestnik International, the online international edition of Filozofski vestnik http://filozofskivestnikonline.com, print Vol. XXXIII, No. 3, 2012, pp. 119–26.

2001 “Fast Feminism,” Journal of Contemporary Thought, 14 (Winter 2001), pp. 93–112.

2001 “Robin Sharpe’s Perverse Aesthetic,” Constitutional Forum, Vol. 12, No.1, pp. 30–9.

1998 “Aphrodite of the Market Place: Fetishism, Value and Sexual Pragmatism,” Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 134–40.

1995 “Performing Theory: Socrates, Sam, Kate and Scarlot,” Philosophy and Social Criticism, Vol, 21, no.3, pp. 79–92.

1995 “Pictures don’t lie. Pictures tell it all,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 284–321.

1990 “The Political-Libidinal Economy of the Socialist Female Body: Flesh and Blood, Work and Ideas,” Dialectical Anthropology, Special Issue on Women and Revolution, Vol. 15, pp. 249–58 [9 pages

• Bell, Shannon (November 1991). "Ejaculator meets slut goddess! Or, deep inside Annie Sprinkle's mind, heart and pussy". Spectator: California's Weekly Sex News and Review. Sebago, Inc. 27 (9): 16. Archived from the original on 5 April 2005.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)

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