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redsageWe got food, and fabulous company, so we missed Thomas Edlinger's presentation on Porn and Art. Sad, but I think the break was worthwhile. Simiiarly, we arrived in the middle of Katherina's presentation on cultural genitals.
Here's one of her papers: http://www.peripherie3000.de/projects/colloquium-contributions/peripher_paper.doc/view
She is proposing extending Haraway's theories of the cyborg onto the genitals and gender in general.
Calling the body a function of the genitals (Freudian thoughts) is to call the line between production and reproduction into question - similarly sex and gender, body and sex. The fixation on genitals is a cultural issue.
To be in heaven is perfect lust, so the question of genitals in the afterlife is still interesting when we are not able to reproduce. St. Augustine apparently thought on this topic, and decided that we will in fact have genitals, but they will just be ornaments.
The American fixation on size is a type of animorphosis, an obsession with swelling and erecting more than the body itself. Interestingly, the commodification of the female genitals stays focused on the breasts, not so much on the vagina or vulva. There is no desire without an object, but the object is not alone - it stays involved in a game of relations and touching. Hitchcock said he could not make a porn film until they invent a new genital.
One of the modes of the cultural genitals is to invest the hands with this.
Here's one of her papers: http://www.peripherie3000.de/projects/colloquium-contributions/peripher_paper.doc/view
She is proposing extending Haraway's theories of the cyborg onto the genitals and gender in general.
Calling the body a function of the genitals (Freudian thoughts) is to call the line between production and reproduction into question - similarly sex and gender, body and sex. The fixation on genitals is a cultural issue.
To be in heaven is perfect lust, so the question of genitals in the afterlife is still interesting when we are not able to reproduce. St. Augustine apparently thought on this topic, and decided that we will in fact have genitals, but they will just be ornaments.
The American fixation on size is a type of animorphosis, an obsession with swelling and erecting more than the body itself. Interestingly, the commodification of the female genitals stays focused on the breasts, not so much on the vagina or vulva. There is no desire without an object, but the object is not alone - it stays involved in a game of relations and touching. Hitchcock said he could not make a porn film until they invent a new genital.
One of the modes of the cultural genitals is to invest the hands with this.
