Erotics
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A series of five mysterious, portraitlike images produced by Sandro Botticelli's workshop in the late fifteenth century shows the same female sitter, bust length, in profile, with an extremely ornate hairstyle. These images are difficult... more
W niniejszej pracy autor referuje pokrótce swoją interpretację poematu prozą Stanisława Przybyszewskiego Androgyne. Motywem przewodnim jest ukuty przez autora termin oniryzmu erotycznego. Autor wskazuje na jego słownikową etymologię oraz... more
Una de las características fundamentales de la cultura griega clásica es la ausencia raigal de parámetros. En lo que respecta al comportamiento sexual, no existía un código consolidado que lo rija (Dover, 1978; Foucault, 1984). Según... more
This paper focuses on the tendency of eroticising the body of the dying or dead Christ, evident in Renaissance and Baroque art, but also in religious poetry. It also discusses how these artistic works construct an erotic relationship... more
An essay accompanying artist Tommy Bruce's exhibition "Real Problems" (2020), at the AC[2]: Albuquerque Contemporary Art Center in New Mexico. The essay discusses the role of gender, sexuality, race and violence in the artist's work and... more
I attempt to locate the "stutter of form" as described in Craig Dworkin's essay of that title in the realm of contemporary classical music. Lachenmann's piece Pression serves as a starting point which leads me toward Sept Papillons, a... more
This essay examines how capitalism and colonialism collude to produce a high value on the “end” of the erotic—the orgasm—and rather proposes an end to the hierarchical valuing of orgasmic pleasure. Through an analysis of film, literature,... more
Design research can include a range of actions but has gradually become assimilated into the production of theory. The making of theory in design has been widely discussed (Redström, 2017), but the kinds of cognitive operations that it... more
Mystery, seduction, and ecstatic charge are the place where the erotology and the ontology of small things (a pearl, a grain, a bubble, a shell) touch, whose eruptive potential becomes the backbone of the erotological complex of... more
This chapter explores the complex interplay of meanings and the discursive practices of race inherent in the erotics of Olitz - a hashtag that largely promoted or 'shipped' the televisual pairing of Olivia Pope and Fitz Williams in the TV... more
A study of Artaud’s 1947–1948 writings (including To Have Done with the Judgment of God and The Theatre of Cruelty) in the light of Spinoza’s materialism and Nietzsche’s take on the death of God in The Gay Science, but also of Lacan’s... more