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Showing posts with label simone de beauvoir. Show all posts
10 Oct 2024

And Then This: More Random Thoughts on Samuel Beckett

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Stephen Alexander: God Save Samuel Beckett (2024)  (à la Jamie Reid) [1]     There are many reasons other than his dark humour and finely...
7 Dec 2019

On Luce Irigaray's Vegetal Idealism

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Columbia University Press, 2016 Cover image: Jessica Hines I.   When Luce Irigaray first approached Michael Marder with the...
8 Jul 2018

On the Ethics of Ambiguity

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Jastrow's ambiguous figure of the duck-rabbit made famous by  Wittgenstein in his Philosophical Investigations (1953), II, §...
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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...
16 May 2018

Simone de Beauvoir: Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome (Pt. 2)

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IV. BB and the Feminine Mystique Four years after de Beauvoir published her fascinating little study of Bardot and the Lolita syn...

Simone de Beauvoir: Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome (Pt. 1)

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I. Initials BB In 1959, Brigitte Bardot - the world's most outrageously sensual film star - was the subject of a 64-page stu...
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...
21 Dec 2017

Should Sade be Saved?

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Les 120 Journées de Sodome ou l'école du libertinage  (1785)  Photo of the original manuscript: Benoit Tessier / Reuters ...
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4 Dec 2017

Lipstick Traces: Lessons for Lucia

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Lucia Pica photographed by Daniel Jackson  Vogue (Sept 2015) Like many people, when I heard a couple of years ago that Italian-b...
23 Jul 2017

On the Freedom to Hate: A Review of Camille Paglia's "Free Women, Free Men"

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If interested in seeing Ms Paglia speak about her new book and take questions  on her work, then click here to watch an event...