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Invading Ancestral Spaces ...

This paper examined, from a cyberfeminist, queer, postmodern and poststructural perspective, a virtual subject called Rosalind Brodsky (RB), the heteronym/alter ego of Australian/UK based digital artist Suzanne Treister. Her cd-rom, No Other Symptoms: Time Travelling with Rosalind Brodsky, creates a space which negotiates issues of fetishism and sexuality, subjectivity and technology in relation to personal histories/fictions, and histories of the twentieth century. Brodsky travels in time to undergo analysis with Freud, Jung, Klein, Lacan, and Kristeva, as well as to conduct various research trips in film, music, the Russian Revolution, the 60s, and more. These trips are financed through the sale of Brodsky’s unique line of luxury feature vibrators. The complexity of RB’s sexed and cultural subjectivity is explored through the political and historical metaphors within which she is located, and the hypertextual narrativity and baroque digital art environment within which her identity and mobility are structured.