Godina izdanja: 2008
ISBN: 8073082918
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Louis Armand, Jane Lewty, Andrew Mitchell - Pornotopias; Image, Apocalypse, Desire
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická Fakulta / Litteraria Pragensia, Praha, 2008
272 str.
mehka vezava
stanje: zelo dobro

Bodily existence is an existence lived in constant fascination with a world beyond one`s reach. Embodiment, desire, metaphor. To exist on the verge of nonexistence. In the headlong pursuit of the real, of the other. Of the base materiality of the world, of religious hypothesis, of absolute relativity. Every utopia is a pornography, a recrudescence and pathological disillusionment, a lure into the vortex--paradoxical annulment of pure reason, compulsion, repetition, consumption. A fact of bodily existence is to know that the body is our most complex and multi-faceted machine in a world of incessant technological progress. The body is a marvel of engineering; it is the outward face of primal nature; it is a disgusting vessel in which to house the soul; it is a primitive device, fragile and disposable. Bodies are re-produced, experimented upon to the limits of their tolerance, dissected and debated to every last cell, mended, prosthetically enhanced, moralised, abused and adored. The interface with the world we live in means that the body is always laid open to scrutiny without ever simply constituting some thing within our grasp: it is the site where violence and metaphysics interchange, technicity and catatonia, the sublime and the grotesque. The body cannot be neutral or indifferent. Its design is such that it must respond to both exterior challenge and interior impulse. Our means of survival, the sex act, galvanizes the body into a unique state of existence, which, though transient, becomes the essence of being; the concentration of an idea, the heightening of sense, the ultimate dissolution. Contributors include Georges Bataille, Johannes Birringer, Karmen MacKendrick, Benjamin H. Bratton, Lara Portela, Louis Armand, Stewart Home, Jane Lewty, Thierry Tillier, Ruark Lewis, Malwina Zaremba, Darren Tofts, Bonita Rhoads, Stuart Kendall, Ian Haig, Jena Jolissaint, Pierre Daguin, Vadim Erent, Florian Cramer, Beth Lazroe, Andar Nunes.

Contents:
Interiors / Daren Tofts
Sound, mind, body / Stuart Kendall
(((Disparition Programmé,,, / Thierry Tillier
After bacon / Johannes Birringer
Figures of destructuration / Benjamin H. Bratton
Banalities / Ruark Lewis
Pornographic coding / Florian Cramer and Stewart Home
Bluejack, datajack / Jane Lewty
The medium is the fetish / Louis Armand
Humiliated subjects / Karmen MacKendrick
Six femmes / Pierre Daguin
Eroticism / Georges Bataille
Replaying Fort/Da / Vadim Erent and Bonita Rhoads
Futurotic / Ian Haig
Pirates, priestesses and porne pillage the panopticon / Jena Jolissaint
Incorporating objects / Lara Portela
Naked truth / Malwina Zaremba
Visual assualt / Beth Lazroe
Autoerotic / Andar Nunes


Nonfiction, 8073082918