Bare interior. Grey light. Lego.
Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, as seen on 3 Quarks Daily.
Sticky Tunnel Vision
Apparently, all men fear women’s periods, we are disgusted by them, we treat the vagina as a wound. Breillat argues that man has inscribed onto woman a disgust of and for her own body. Touching her own genitals, or inserting objects into her vagina, is somehow anathema to our (man’s) ideas of the feminine, and so the tampon and its application creates a false impression (for men) of virginity. A cursory scan of certain adult websites will unveil pictures and videos of women masturbating and inserting bottles, courgettes, and baseball bats into their vaginas. False impressions? You can’t have it both ways. Well, you can, but to know what I mean, you’d have to spend more time on the aforementioned websites.
Steve Finbow reviews Catherine Breillat‘s Pornocracy.
The Sleep of Reason
“Well, I dislike Surrealism – I think it’s a form of psychiatric policing; they promote the idea that the unconscious is a friend to us; it’s not – it’s an animal … But look at TV adverts today, a mere 60 years after Hoffman synthesised LSD. Consider how readily we accept the manipulation of hallucinations, […]