Resisting Nudities

A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism

Häftad, Engelska, 2008

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This provocative book re-conceives the erotic and its imaginative manifestations as an aesthetic ultimately driven by the disruption of desire. Critical, philosophical, and erotic texts construct a framework for understanding the aesthetics of eroticism including a «resisting nude» grounded in a theory of absence and the psychosocial dynamic of physical and mental surveillance. Resisting Nudities offers a necessary link between the poetry of jouissance and the revolt of body and mind intrinsic to the erotic, at a key moment in our contemporary cultural landscape. Written through a poetic lens, it is a creative new analysis of what George Bataille called the most intense of human moments.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2008-06-30
Mått160 x 230 x 11 mm
Vikt290 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor104
Upplaga2
FörlagPeter Lang Publishing Inc
ISBN9780820486147

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«In her well documented book, both cultural and philosophical, Dr Boodakian warns us against the danger of a society of auto-surveillance, a coded society where the individual has gradually and naturally internalised rules which make freedom an illusion, depriving him/her of being a ‘subject’ in the unknown (and rich) land of eroticism. In addition, she guides us with great panache towards this no man’s land of the unconscious which separates the Erotic from Porn.» (Isabelle Pagot-Votelet, Professor at the IAV d’Orleans (Institute of Visual Arts) and at the Sefco, University of Orleans, France)