In The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic, Mario Perniola puts forth the radical argument that we are shifting away from organic sexuality, based on desire and pleasure, and moving towards a more neutral inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available but indifferent to beauty, age or form. Perniola takes the reader on a tour of Western philosophy, from Descartes, Kant and Hegel to Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Sartre, to reframe our understanding of personal experience and the aesthetic world around us. In order to realize the sex appeal of the inorganic Perniola argues that we must become ‘things that feel’, we must think ourselves closer to the inorganic, creating an alliance between senses and things. Examples from contemporary culture that, for Perniola, are emblems of the sex appeal of the inorganic, include progressive rock music, fashion, deconstructive architecture and the novels of Georges Perec.
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1. Senses and Things 2. Sex Plateaux 3. God, Animal, Thing 4. Descartes and the Thing that Feels 5. Becoming Extraneous Clothing 6. Exemplary Addictions 7. Kant and the Spouse as Thing 8. Sadism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 9. Philosophical Cybersex 10. Kant and the Feeling of the Thing in itself 11. Masochism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 12. Bodies and Clothes 13. Hegel and the Thing as ‘not this’ 14. Fetishism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 15. Hardcore Sonority 16. Hegel and the Thing as ‘also’ 17. Vampirism and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 18. Plastic Landscapes 19. Hegel and the Thing ‘all of one piece’ 20. Desire and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 21. Overflowing Installations 22. Heidegger and the Thing as Reliability 23. Division and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 24. Inclusive Metawritings 25. Wittgenstein and the Feeling of ‘this thing’ 26. Pleasure and Sex Appeal of the Inorganic 27. Perverse Performance Notes Index of Names
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A radical philosophy of sexuality from a major Italian philosopher.
A classic and provocative text from a major Italian thinker
Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury Academic's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Carol Adams, Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ronald Dworkin, Constantin Stanislavski, Susan Strange and Gilles Deleuze, this is an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world.
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ISBN
9781350018150
Publisert
2017-02-23
Utgiver
Vendor
Bloomsbury Academic
Vekt
181 gr
Høyde
216 mm
Bredde
138 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
152

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Mario Perniola is Professor of Aesthetics at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy. His books in English include Art and Its Shadow (2004) and 20th Century Aesthetics (2012) among many others.