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Sexual violence challenges the representational clichés while calling for more nuanced artistic strategies as a communicative vehicle with a recognition of the non-representational aspects of trauma. In that sense, this dissertation proposes a paradigm shift from representation to affective mediation as a possible move. As a creative and productive assemblage of media studies, non-representational theory, affect theory, film phenomenology, new materialism, and Chinese philosophical thought, affective mediation attempts to establish a media-theoretical framework with which to consider sexual violence, calling for a serious consideration of lived sensation, embodied experience, and materiality as the exploration of seeking what remains unknown after the linguistic turn. Using affective mediation as a conceptual framework, I examine a group of artistic practices across different media forms as both objects for analysis as well as thought experiments in their own right, bridging different academic fields and cultural systems into a novel conversation. By focusing on how the traumatic experience of rape is expressed, experienced, translated and transformed by, through, and with different types of media, I maintain that media can be an active body in presenting the unspeakable outside the normative language while enabling the circulation of affects within multiple bodies, be they human or non-human. My own creative project, a series of multi-media artworks named Shi-Rou continues the dialogue with the question of how the artistic usage of media can complicate the discourse of sexual violence by inventing new concepts. Fungi in Chinese mythology is called Shi-Rou, namely, “the seeing flesh.” Inspired by the formal structure of the fungal system, I believe that Shi-Rou best embodies the notion of affective mediation – a seemingly singular entity with multi-layered interactions and connections to the living world. With a renewed understanding of media as affective mediation, my Shi-Rou project attempts to induce a new model of criticism as well as a non-Western perspective in the seemingly well-explored discourse of sexual violence."]},{"key":"dc:format","label":"Dc Format","values":["application/pdf"]},{"key":"dc:title","label":"Title","values":["Shi-Rou, or the Seeing Flesh: The Discourse of Sexual Violence from the Framework of Affective Mediation"]}]}],"canonical_facts":{"dc:contributor":["Anstey, Josephine","Media Study"],"dc:creator":["Shi, Hanwei; 0000-0002-2636-0835"],"dc:date":["2019-07-30T15:11:31Z","2019","2019-05-16 13:19:09"],"dc:description":["Ph.D.","This dissertation asserts itself as a timely response to the theoretical impasse in film and media criticism concerning sexual violence. 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