Fwd: Re: GRGR(26) - Paranoia=Analysis?

[Thomas Colin]

>From Albert Goldbarth, *The Origin of Porno,* quoted in Linda Williams, 
chapter 2.

"1878: the Muybridge equine series
Studying the horse, we understand
How hard-core followed the invention
of photography. There's a dark compelling
muscle framed by the flanks. There's
a question, an academic question, of at
which point in a leap the female breast
is highest? In the early stopwatched studies
light sloped down the breasts like a scree. There's
a question of time, there's a sepia
exactitude. The power erupts:
in the foreground-two lovers/a basket/red wine.
In the back, a clocked thoroughbred sudses.
Is there ever a moment when all four feet leave the ground?

And so we invent pornography."

>>For those interested in a serious analysis of pornography and pornographic 
>>systems of representation, I warmly recommend *Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, 
>>and the "Frenzy of the Visible,"* by Linda Williams, published by the 
>>university of California at Berkeley press. Amazingly clever and 
>>interesting book. The first part goes back, precisely, to Muybridges's 
>>reels, as a first step towards obsessive-compulsive "frenzy" to find 
>>gratifying pleasure through Films and Stills. When i read that, i couldn't 
>>help thinking P. had this in mind, especially when drawing a parallel 
>>between pornography, calculus, and the trajectory of the rocket.
>>Tom
>>
>>
>>>From: "David Morris" ----------
>>>(567.9)  Like signals sent out for travelers, shape keep repeating for 
>>>him,
>>>Zonal shapes he will allow to enter but won't interpret, not anymore.  
>>>The
>>>most persistent of these [...] are the stairstep gables [...] like 
>>>monuments
>>>to Analysis. [...] [delta]x and [delta]y [...] film and calculus, both
>>>pornographies of flight.
>>>----------
>>>Pornography akin to that by Eadweard Muybridge?
>>>http://masters-of-photography.com/M/muybridge/muybridge_ascending_stairs_full.html
>

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