Sex Drives

[Dave Monroe]

On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 8:21 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 10:17 AM, Dave Monroe
> <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> SEX DRIVES
>> Fantasies of Fascism in Literary Modernism
>> Laura Frost
>>
>> http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=3715
>>
>> Table of Contents
>>
>> http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/toc/Frost.sex.toc.pdf
>
> "Introduction: 'Fascinating Fascism'" (pp. 1-15)
>
>   "Second, the depictions of fascism in most of these texts function
> according to the logic of fetishism.... thsese authors suggest they
> know very well facsism's murderous history, but they still imagine
> fascism as erotic.  Third and  most important, the fantasies in these
> fictions are sadomasochistic.  The represnetatioon of dsadomasochism,
> however, is quite different from how sadomasichsim is commonly
> understood, as a pathology conflated with fascism." (p. 12)

To continue ...

"...  most important, the fantasies in these fictions are
sadomasochistic.  The representation of sadomasochism however, is
quite different from how sadomasochism is commonly understood, as a
pathology conflated with fascism.  Most centrally, in these texts,
erotic sadomasochism is distinguished from fascist violence.  In terms
of the model of fantasy outlined above, the historical refernt
'fascism' is characterized as violent and dengerous, but the erotic
sadomasochistic action of the fantasy is distinguished from fascist
violence." (pp. 12-13)

... sorry, coffee shop closed up early last night, passed out hours
later @ home catching up on 30 Rock on Hulu, so ...



 (p. 12)