In a message dated 06/27/2000 10:30:46 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< << Kathy Acker's treatments of obscenity might interest you; they hold
more
> interest
> for me than the rather stale patriarchal guilt/desire of, say, Miller.
> >>
>
> I think it was Foucault who pointed out that pornography arises with along
> with sexual repression. Before that you get eroticism. How can we reclaim
the
> erotic?
Interesting you should say that--Acker was interesting for me in her moment
because she claimed the right for women to be obscene, but unfortunately that
right isn't very enjoyable. And yes, I think that eroticism--that is, fun
sex w/o
punishment and guilt--is highly revolutionary, and probably always will be as
long as property and the selling of one's time for money alienates people
from
their own bodies and those of the people they love.
>>
I was thinking of Foucault in relation to the Henry Miller thing. I like
Acker okay, not my fave writer, but when she first came out I dug her a lot.
Barg
