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Sex, Violence, and Liberation in Narrative Traditions

My roster of classes this spring semester contains Lectures in Literature (focus on Adaptation), Readings in Contemporary Fiction (focus on post-Boom Latin American literature), Bible as Literature, and Popular Culture.  Though not typically themes I look at, it was interesting to notice that almost immediately each class’s texts (though not yet pop culture, though with [...]

The Way of What is to Come

Monday, listening to M.Pyres, dancing up and down over my copy of Jung’s “Red Book” [on his theories of interpretation] finally arriving, though won’t have time to dive into it for a couple weeks due to the increasing school work load. But soon. For the time being here’s some links that have been building up [...]

The Future of Sex

from H+ magazine [via disinformation]: “It is important to remember that sexual intercouse is a highly ancient, simplistic-at-its-core activity that we may choose to discard at some point in the future…” In “Sex and the Singularity,” futurist magazine H+ asks radical techs (including Ray Kurzweil) to describe futuristic “sex after the Singularity.” They envision “more [...]

Sex in the Library and the Eye of Eros

I am currently reading Lolita, as I haven’t touched Nabokov before and would like to get through at least his most (in)famous works before the publication of his posthumous novel The Original of Laura. While Lolita is scandalous for its content, an aged European’s ecstatic affair with a twelve-year old girl, the novel’s style is [...]

Kafka’s Porn

“A stash of explicit pornography to which Franz Kafka subscribed has emerged for the first time after being studiously ignored by scholars anxious to preserve the iconic writer’s saintly image. Having stumbled by chance across copies in the British Library in London and the Bodleian in Oxford while doing unrelated research, James Hawes, the academic [...]

Sexing the Surreal (…NSFW)

I recently read George Bataille’s “Story of the Eye” (available for download w/in link), which was hailed by Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes as a masterpiece of pornographic literature. While I don’t generally find descriptions of teenagers pissing on each other and inserting eggs and eyeballs into their various orifices all that erotic, the symbolic [...]