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Rape Culture: Extreme Pornography / Extreme Sexuality (Part 2)
“The steak? The steak!? What about the sole?! I’ll scalp ya…” (Dennis Potter – Secret Friends)
Extreme Pornography
Pornography: the explicit description or display of sexual organs/activities, intended to stimulate sexual arousal.
Obscenity: identified in England by its capacity to ‘deprave or corrupt’ a significant number of people that come into contact with it; hence obscenity turns on the notion of a public good or Continue reading
Rape Culture: Extreme Pornography / Extreme Sexuality (Part 1)
“When the world knows beauty as beauty, ugliness arises
When it knows good as good, evil arises
Thus being and non-being produce each other” (Laozi, Tao Te Ching)
When it knows good as good, evil arises
Thus being and non-being produce each other” (Laozi, Tao Te Ching)
Today, there is much talk about ‘rape culture’: about whether or not it exists; about whether or not it elides with ‘rape fantasy’; about whether Continue reading
Reflections on a Vomiting Girl (#poetry)
The men are like insects
around a corpse,
scrutinous faces
scavenging the remnants
of her,
scavenged. Continue reading
around a corpse,
scrutinous faces
scavenging the remnants
of her,
scavenged. Continue reading
An Erotic One (#poetry)
My ideal for sex
is of bored eyes;
bored eyes
and an idle finger in her sex
then left.
is of bored eyes;
bored eyes
and an idle finger in her sex
then left.
Against Analysis
“To produce is to force what belongs to another order (that of secrecy and seduction) to materialize.” (Baudrillard, Forget Foucault, pg. 37)
Preamble
The following is a reflection on a tendency of modern, techno- informational capitalist societies: the tendency to ‘analyse’, become ‘self-conscious’, to ‘decide’ or ‘choose’. It is a tendency which is demonstrated in David Foster-Wallace’s This is Water commencement speech and its character is exampled by the following excerpt:
“’Learning how to think’ really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you think. It means being conscious and aware enough to choose what you pay attention to and to choose how you construct meaning from experience.” (David Foster-Wallace, This is Water, 8:10)
As a background, it is worth noting that Continue reading
