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An individual psychological attempt to resist one’s own instincts of pleasure, by repelling or denying our lustful impulses is known as repression. It is this notion of repression by which we subdue, quieten, hold back or control in our... more
An individual psychological attempt to resist one’s own instincts of pleasure, by repelling or denying our lustful impulses is known as repression. It is this notion of repression by which we subdue, quieten, hold back or control in our subconscious, desires ostracized from our conscious. In Michel Foucault’s book The History of Sexuality he addresses the idea that our view of sex in Western society has altered, that is to say, it has changed quite dramatically over recent epochs.

Our epoch, the technological age, is one where sex, gender and sexuality are so ingrained in Western culture that most of it goes unnoticed. That which would’ve been considered shocking in the past is now perfectly normal or at least to some extent, tolerated. Human beings haven’t suddenly discovered same sex relationships, they existed in the past but they are now widely and openly accepted in a way that they were not previously.
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According to Bauman, the anxieties which present themselves as being of the utmost conspicuousness are those which have themselves evolved from eradicated security. In Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies, Bauman proposes the... more
According to Bauman, the anxieties which present themselves as being of the utmost conspicuousness are those which have themselves evolved from eradicated security. In Mortality, Immortality, and Other Life Strategies, Bauman proposes the differing responses modern and post-modern society face when confronted with the concept of immortality and mortality. In order to discuss either of these concepts one must first consider the idea of death.

Death is that which affects all of us individually but inevitably approaches us all, regardless of our ability to ignore or acknowledge it. It is a notion we are both consciously and subconsciously aware of. Bauman attributes postmodernity as liquid modernity, as represented by the deterioration of man’s immortality through the disintegration of order and authoritarian ambitions. Authority is not specified pragmatically under the postmodern condition.
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The abstruse and visionary delineation of how a public sphere formulates itself and its subjects across social variety, despite the evident possibility of this gendered and hierarchical concern, has of course become rather standardised.... more
The abstruse and visionary delineation of how a public sphere formulates itself and its subjects across social variety, despite the evident possibility of this gendered and hierarchical concern, has of course become rather standardised. “The idea of the public sphere in Habermas’s sense is a conceptual resource that designates a theatre in modern societies in which political participation is enacted through the medium of talk.” (Fraser, 1990) What if rather than a conceptual resource, the notion was given physical space. As an artspace attempts to get us to feel for or engage in site specific works (whether within a museum or elsewhere), its primary usage is that of discussion, of the removal of socio-economical boundaries and restraints, of free speech, for all, often curated and dominated by a predefined issue; artspace as public sphere.
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