The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic: Philosophies of Desire in the Modern WorldA&C Black, 26 de març 2004 - 147 pàgines We live in a world where the one-time opposition between things and humans has been transformed, where the center of contemporary sensibility is the encounter between philosophy and sexuality, where sex extends well beyond both the act and the body. We live in a world where to be sexy is to ignore the distinctions between animate and inanimate objects of desire, where the aesthetics of sex are being revolutionized. An organic sexuality, based on sex difference and driven by desire and pleasure, is being replaced by a neutral, inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available but indifferent to beauty, age or form, a sexuality freed by thought from nature. The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic takes the reader on a radical, new tour of Western philosophy—from Descartes, Kant and Hegel to Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Sartre—to reframe our understanding of personal experience and the aesthetic, to examine how, if we are to remember how to feel, we must become a thing who feels, we must think ourselves closer to the inorganic world and move further from our bodies. |
Continguts
Senses and Things | 1 |
Sex Plateaux | 2 |
God Animal Thing | 4 |
Descartes and the Thing that Feels | 7 |
Becoming Extraneous Clothing | 10 |
Exemplary Addictions | 14 |
Kant and the Spouse as Thing | 18 |
Sadism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | 21 |
Vampirism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | 76 |
Plastic Landscapes | 83 |
Hegel and the Thing all of one piece | 92 |
Desire and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | 96 |
Overflowing Installations | 102 |
Heidegger and the Thing as Reliability | 108 |
Division and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | 114 |
Inclusive Metawritings | 121 |
Philosophical Cybersex | 28 |
Kant and the Feeling of the Thing in itself | 37 |
Masochism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | 41 |
Bodies as Clothing | 45 |
Hegel and the Thing as not this | 50 |
Fetishism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | 53 |
Hardcore Sonority 65 S N 1 2 2 | 71 |
Wittgenstein and the Feeling of this thing | 127 |
Pleasure and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic | 132 |
Perverse Performance | 142 |
Notes | 145 |
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Non-representational Theory: Space, Politics, Affect N. J. Thrift Previsualització no disponible - 2008 |