Thresholds, 29: Inversions (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Thresholds, 29: Inversions

This issue of Thresholds takes as its starting point the fundamental ambiguity of what it means to invert something. Although at it most literal level, to invert is to turn inside - out or upside-down, or to reverse the position, order, or condition of,1 one often encounters much hazier interpretations, whereby anything which deviates from the norm is considered to constitute an inversion of that norm. This implied equality between the concepts of inversion, transgression, and disruption led me to inquire: What is the relationship between a literal inversion and its associated meanings? And why and has this term inversion become ubiquitous to the point of lending itself to such broad - and often vague - interpretations?

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