abstracts from the Harper Valley PTA conference on violation

[Henry M]

As I responded before, we all have our personal filters. Looks to me 
like it's time to create another . If a creation that I filter is 
important enough, I'll hear about it. There is pain and evil, put 
there is also pleasure and decency. Humor is an excellent pole-axes 
(sic). Too bad heavy-metal whiners don't get it.

On 27 Jan 97 at 17:37, Mittelwerk at aol.com wrote:

> this is the problem with you liberalz . . . you're torn apart,
> you're investing in international mutual funds, you're squabbling
> over cultural viscera like weasels in a hole . . . 
> 
> culture, to quote brecht, smells like shit, and so doesn't like to
> be reminded of where it came from.  the picture of Wendy's spread
> sex-organs (Swank, Oct.94 ish) cancels out Remembrance of Things
> Past--in the way of a child who is able to understand algebra by
> visualizing how much he would like to get into Debbie-Lou's
> Garanimals.  High culture prides itself on how it can swerve and
> snake--the pornographies of flight, of which GR is one--to avoid
> reification, by burrowing deeper and deeper into meaning--which it
> reifies in the process.  "andrew" hit on this when he mentioned the
> 'brutality' word:  just like the Holocaust occured so that Spielberg
> could rediscover his Jewishness (from the standpoint of benevolent
> German), 'Art' is the illusory compensation you get for making the
> aesthetic realm autonymous--and allowing the erotic realm to consume
> itself in isolation.
>  What hungers for itself (the meaning of eros) more than kapital? .
>  . . . 
> 
> Pornography is sex as it exists.  Hustler is 'sex', not pornography.
>  it has every right to call itself normative cultural material.  the
> typical mating ritual--two monads drinking cosmopolitans while
> veering tighter around each other through pre-emptive
> rationalization, till they stumble the into meaning-less garden of
> 'fuck'--this 'pornographic' (in the true sense of the word) act is
> also merely Sex.  Real Sex (and you have to be naive to even say it)
> is the true Porno--the violence of realizing that sex offers no more
> than it does, that I, or you, can never exceed this repetitive act
> and pass into the otherside.  That there is nothing there underneath
> the names, and who's fault is that but mine.  
> 
> I noticed that dyb0001 shudders when she reads Henry Miller.  Of
> course.  She mistakenly thinks his vitriol is directed at her--and
> not the compulsion of sex.   Typical.  Sorry to say, but you are not
> the object of sex.  You are an object for sex, like Henry Miller. 
> the only difference between the two of you is that whereas one looks
> at objectification and finds pleasure, the other finds only
> pain--and pain is what unites the chronic wanker to the repressed
> academician of sex.
> 
> 

My mother was of the sky... -- JL
My mother is the war...
Keep cool, but care. -- TRP
Moderation in moderation. -- Husky Mariner
Not having that, which having... :-(

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