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26 Jun 2022

Jeff Koons: Apollo (The Golden Boy of American Art Meets the Golden God of the Greeks)

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Jeff Koons: Apollo Kithara (2019-22) [1]   Jeff Koons on Instagram I.    Apollo is the golden boy of ancient Greek mythology: the god of su...
17 Mar 2022

I Still Dream of Orgonon: Notes on the Strange Life and Times of Wilhelm Reich (Part 2: The American Years)

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Wilhelm Reich (1890-1957)   Folge der Stimme deines Herzens, auch wenn  sie dich vom Pfad schüchterner Seelen abführt [1]     III. The Amer...
14 Apr 2020

Vampiric Lesbianism 2: Dracula's Cinematic Daughters

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Gloria Holden as as Countess Marya Zaleska in Dracula's Daughter (1936) Ingrid Pitt as Mircalla Karnstein (aka Carmilla) in The ...
5 Apr 2019

A Vagina Monologue

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Poster for the film Chatterbox starring Candice Rialson  (dir. Tom DeSimone, 1977) I. Many people are familiar with Eve Ens...
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3 Jun 2018

Notes on Castration Anxiety with Reference to the Case of Oliver Mellors

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Walk-Marcus: 04 Castration Anxiety deviantart.com I. Kastrationsangst Castration anxiety is one of Freud's earliest psyc...
29 Dec 2017

Le Visqueux: Notes on Existential Slime and Ontological Sexism

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I've never been a great fan of Jean-Paul Sartre and fully endorse Heidegger's repudiation of the Frenchman's attempt to c...
8 Oct 2017

Black Wonder Women 2: Raje

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Renee Cox: Chillin' with Liberty  (1998) reneecox.org   In her 1998 photomontage series, Renee Cox created an Amazonian alt...

Black Wonder Women 1: Nubia

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  Wonder Women  (detail) by Marcus Williams (2017)  marcusthevisual.com Due to the huge commercial and critical succe...
14 Sept 2017

Roethke and the Bat Boy (A Post on American Poetry and Popular Culture)

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And when he appears upon a TV screen, We're afraid of what our eyes have seen. The highly-regarded American poet, Theodore R...
27 Aug 2017

On the Joy of Metaphysical Conceit (With Reference to John Donne's 'The Flea')

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John Donne (1572-1631): The Flea   (First published posthumously in 1633)   Whilst it's true that I don't like conceite...
9 Aug 2017

On Lunacy

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The Moon: lovely to look at but ineffective Still, today - even in Parliament - there are people who subscribe in all seriousness ...
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5 Aug 2017

Bootylicious

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Oh my gosh! Look at her butt! Nicki Minaj sleeve photo for her smash hit single ' Anaconda '  taken from the album The ...
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30 Jul 2017

On Dirty Dancing and the Virtue of Female Narcissism 2: The Case of Anna Brangwen

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Drawing by Alice Stanley of a pregnant  Anna Brangwen  dancing  in  the firelight, whilst her husband Will  watches from the shad...
25 Jul 2017

In Praise of the Stiletto Heel

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The Dioressence stiletto Photo: Marton Perlaki for Dior According to Camille Paglia, the stiletto heel is "modern woman...