On 26 August 2012 23:19, Halvard Johnson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What's a "begged question"?
>
A poor return for a philosophy
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> Mastering this universe one Higgs boson at a time.
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> On Sun, Aug 26, 2012 at 5:09 PM, David Bircumshaw <
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> > 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
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> > > 11m41s of it
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> > > alerted to this by
> > >
> > >
> >
> http://www.salon.com/2012/08/24/turning_orgasm_into_art/?source=newsletter
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