Resisting Nudities
Author | : Florence Dee Boodakian |
Publisher | : Peter Lang |
Total Pages | : 118 |
Release | : 2008 |
ISBN-10 | : 1433104156 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781433104152 |
Rating | : 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: 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.