----------empyre- soft-skinned space---------------------- Just to reply to myself, I was thinking I don't think we have discussed anticipation yet. I think anticipation gets the heart of this idea of grounding arousal / pleasure / fantasy in the norm. Perhaps this is the root of the boringness of a porn film: a banality that cues the potential of a future pleasure. This seems congruent with the banality of the narrative of a horror film that cues the potential for fright.
B. On 15-05-12 10:30 AM, B. Bogart wrote: > Pleasure is a positive arousal, and thus requires a ground of boredom to > occur. For the same reason, fear as a negative arousal requires a > baseline of boredom. _______________________________________________ empyre forum empyre@lists.artdesign.unsw.edu.au http://empyre.library.cornell.edu
