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Monday, August 7, 2023

Consensual Twilight

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 11:24 am

The previous post (on "Come Swim") suggests a Sunset Boulevard review —

From a search in this journal for "consensual" —

"Yet if this Denkraum ,  this 'twilight region,'  is where the artist and
emblem-maker invent, then, as Gombrich well knew, Warburg also
constantly regrets the 'loss' of this 'thought-space,' which he also
dubs the Zwischenraum  and Wunschraum ."

— Memory, Metaphor, and Aby Warburg's Atlas of Images ,
     Christopher D. Johnson, Cornell University Press, 2012, p. 56

Tuesday, August 11, 2020

Here’s to Consensual Objectification

Filed under: General — Tags: , — m759 @ 4:52 pm
New Woke Stance

“The new Playboy claims to have moved away from the male gaze, but no matter how tasteful it may be, it is still relying on nudity.

‘We talk a lot about when something is objectification versus when it is consensual objectification versus when it is art,’ Singh said. ‘I think objectification removes the agency of the subject.

‘Consensual objectification is the idea of someone feeling good about themselves and wanting someone to look at them. Art means, O.K., we can hang this on a wall. And if it’s both, for us, that’s the major win.’ ”

— Erica Tempesta for DailyMail.com, 2 Aug. 2019

Sunday, August 16, 2020

Through a Lens, Darkly

Filed under: General — Tags: — m759 @ 12:57 pm

Consensual Objectification continues.

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