Terrors of the Flesh - The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film

In Terrors of the Flesh: The Philosophy of Body Horror in Film, David Huckvale traces body horror in cinema back to the writings of the Marquis de Sade, who states that a human takes pleasure and suffers pain only by means of the senses or the organs of the body (p. 1). Such a corporeal philosophy, Huckvale continues, strongly anticipates Friedrich Nietzsche, who was eager to have a positive attitude towards life despite its horrors. This book, then, aims to explore the profound anxieties we ...

a white leather sofa (poetry) by lostcauser - Everything2.com

The Sycamore Tree is the 'symbol of life' ? Investigate that. -zas Jun 2022 a white leather sofa (poetry) See all of a white leather sofa, no other writeups in this node. (poetry) by lostcauser (2 hr) Rep: 5 ( +5 / -0 ) (Rep Graph) (+) Thu Jun 09 2022 at 17:42:45 he walks away sits down on the sofa the white leather sofa I never wanted to buy I go outside and I don’t slam the door I stand in the yard under the sycamore the symbol of life he was a senior and I was a sophomore...

Crimes Of The Future Review - David Cronenberg’s Unfinished Business With The Flesh Is Booming

David Cronenberg has unfinished business with the future, which is tricky, seeing as it already constitutes a significant slice of his past. His new film — titled "Crimes of the Future," as in committed by rather than during that span of time — finds the master on the other side of his extended sojourn in high-minded literary adaptation, biopic quasi-prestige, and Tinseltown satire, back to playing the body-horror hits on which he made his name. He’s resumed pondering the permeability of fles...

Life Peeled of its Skin and The Rape of the Narrator

notice the footnote that says rape of the narrator because it's an awful lot reminiscent of The Death of the Author by Roland Barthes

Strange Hotel - Life Peeled of its skin

Book

Book see Flower see Pig That the word ‘‘book’’ occurs over a hundred times in the Old Testament is not surprising given the importance of sacred books to the Hebrews. Books were far less important to the Greeks, who tended to rely more on oral tradition; for all the care given to editing him even ‘‘Homer’’ was never a holy text. Various particular books are named in the Old Testament, some of them otherwise unknown to us, but when the Lord tells Joshua that ‘‘This book of the law shall not...