Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread mpalmer
So many things to think about with this topic, but one question that comes to mind is this: When were the first images to appear in art of individuals masturbating? Or what about the first mention in a literary work? I can't think of anything from ancient Greece, nor from India, etc. but

Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
I believe there is material from ancient Egypt - a lot of things were scratched as graffiti into walls. Don't know for literary work but most likely in the Satyricon. - Alan On Sat, 7 Oct 2006, mpalmer wrote: So many things to think about with this topic, but one question that comes to mind

Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Geert Dekkers
And of course the Marquis de Sade http://www.sade-ecrivain.com/ Geert On 8/10/2006, at 8:31 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote: I believe there is material from ancient Egypt - a lot of things were scratched as graffiti into walls. Don't know for literary work but most likely in the Satyricon. -

270/365, Bobby

2006-10-08 Thread Dan Waber
Bobby looks like he could be a race car driver, but I'm not so sure most people would guess he races midget cars (and not because it's tough to picture him racing open wheel cars or on a dirt track). 40 words, 40 years 365 days, 365 people http://www.logolalia.com/40x365

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2006-10-08 Thread Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
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Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
For me the discourse is dialectical; masturbation etc. occurs among the primate and a number of other animals. So it's a question of representa- tion. So I would imagine that masturbation would be presenced everywhere - even an absent discourse would indicate a problematic around the act.

Re: nettime Gender and You (fwd)

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
-- Forwarded message -- Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 13:21:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Alan Sondheim [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Kali Tal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nettime management system nettime-l@bbs.thing.net Subject: Re: nettime Gender and You I'm not sure how much longer nettime will let me go

Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Sondheim
This is fascinating. Given the way desire operates, one might say all sex, at least possibly masculine sex, is masturbation - certainly if based on what's considered the economy of exchange. On the other hand, given such an overdetermined subject or locus, I think almost any position, any

live chat with John Cayley 10/9 (Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion)

2006-10-08 Thread Charles Baldwin
_Leonardo Electronic Almanac Discussion (LEAD): Vol 14 No 5_ :: Live chat with John Cayley about writing in immersive VR, new media poetics, and other topics. :: Chat date: Monday, October 9. :: Chat time: 11am West Coat US / 2pm East Coast US / 8pm Paris FR / 4am Melbourne AU :: LEAD is an

Re: The Lek: Sex dances for one to four people.

2006-10-08 Thread Lucio Agra
I've been amazed by the recent work of Marina Abramovic called Balkan Erotic Epic, which is in some aspects connected to this discussion. Now the exhibition arrived here in Sao Paulo but I can quote one of its shows in English: http://www.skny.com/lasso-bin/exhibition.lasso?-token.ExID=10209