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On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, David Bircumshaw <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:
> Yes, however the quote: "But frankly, they could read their grocery lists
> and I’d still hang on their every word, every breath, every squirming
> movement during their vulnerable, resistant build to orgasm." opens the
> begged question - it doesn't matter what they're reading. Although if some
> content were chosen it certainly would - can you imagine say poetry from
> the trenches of world war one being treated like that? or say passages from
> the Diary of Anne Frank or the Gulag archipelago? I use those as obvious
> examples tied to historical atrocities. If it were related to specific
> texts with cause it be one thing (and the Whitman could be a candidate) but
> as the aim is so apparently generalised the effect is just that of very
> soft porn.
> Of course, if poetry is a cultural consumable commodity only then very soft
> porn is possibly an apt description of the art. How about Celan's
> 'Todesfugue' being given the treatment? For myself, at least, I recommend
> the right of refusal, like breath.
>
>
> On 25 August 2012 22:04, Max Richards <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHt4IEyYuyQ
> >
> > 11m41s of it
> >
> > alerted to this by
> >
> >
> http://www.salon.com/2012/08/24/turning_orgasm_into_art/?source=newsletter
> >
>
>
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