The Image of Empathy and Becoming in 1970s Star Trek Cosplay

Essay with found images for ELSE Journal, Issue 2, “The Imperceptible Self,” March 2017

A small subset of images from an archive of 3000+ slides shot in NYC in 1979-81 left to me by an ex boyfriend who left town found a home in this essay. The essay addresses the Star Trek cosplay in light of my understanding of the Rosi Braidotti essay “The Ethics of Becoming Imperceptible.”

Read the whole issue online here.

Thank you to Caroline Koebel, who edited this issue of ELSE Journal.