Download or read book Absolute Erotic Absolute Grotesque written by Mark W. Driscoll and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanese women, and Korean tenant farmers supplied the vital energy that drove Japan's empire. He identifies three phases of Japan's capitalist expansion, each powered by distinct modes of capturing and expropriating life and labor: biopolitics (1895–1914), neuropolitics (1920–32), and necropolitics (1935-45). During the first phase, Japanese elites harnessed the labor of marginalized subjects as Japan colonized Taiwan, Korea, and south Manchuria, and sent hustlers and sex workers into China to expand its market hegemony. Linking the deformed bodies laboring in the peripheries with the "erotic-grotesque" media in the metropole, Driscoll centers the second phase on commercial sexology, pornography, and detective stories in Tokyo to argue that by 1930, capitalism had colonized all aspects of human life: not just labor practices but also consumers’ attention and leisure time. Focusing on Japan's Manchukuo colony in the third phase, he shows what happens to the central figures of biopolitics as they are subsumed under necropolitical capitalism: coolies become forced laborers, pimps turn into state officials and authorized narcotraffickers, and sex workers become "comfort women". Driscoll concludes by discussing Chinese fiction written inside Manchukuo, describing the everyday violence unleashed by necropolitics.
Download or read book Absolute Erotica written by Elizabeth Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the definitive collection of erotic short stories that will satisfy all lovers of the sexual art. It is passionate and sexually fulfilling, a book for everyone, whether you are lithe bodied twenty year olds or the more mature passionate and romantic lover, with a fuller figure and in your comfort years. If body and spirit are willing, then this is the book for you. The sexual electricity is so vividly conveyed that you feel as though you are watching from a few inches away and the graphic descriptions make you feel like you are part of the scene, making love and being made love to. Although a highly explicit and sexually charged book, it always treats the subject and the characters with great respect and compassion. It is a must have, for all lovers of erotica. And for those of you who like a little Bondage, S& M, or just pure old fashioned romantic fantasy, you won't be disappointed.
Download or read book Absolute Erotica written by Elizabeth Chamberlain and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Kannani and Document of Flames written by Katsuei Yuasa and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2005-06-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes available for the first time in English two of the most important novels of Japanese colonialism: Yuasa Katsuei’s Kannani and Document of Flames. Born in Japan in 1910 and raised in Korea, Yuasa was an eyewitness to the ravages of the Japanese occupation. In both of the novels presented here, he is clearly critical of Japanese imperialism. Kannani (1934) stands alone within Japanese literature in its graphic depictions of the racism and poverty endured by the colonized Koreans. Document of Flames (1935) brings issues of class and gender into sharp focus. It tells the story of Tokiko, a divorced woman displaced from her Japanese home who finds herself forced to work as a prostitute in Korea to support herself and her child. Tokiko eventually becomes a landowner and oppressor of the Koreans she lives amongst, a transformation suggesting that the struggle against oppression often ends up replicating the structure of domination. In his introduction, Mark Driscoll provides a nuanced and engaging discussion of Yuasa’s life and work and of the cultural politics of Japanese colonialism. He describes Yuasa’s sharp turn, in the years following the publication of Kannani and Document of Flames, toward support for Japanese nationalism and the assimilation of Koreans into Japanese culture. This abrupt ideological reversal has made Yuasa’s early writing—initially censored for its anticolonialism—all the more controversial. In a masterful concluding essay, Driscoll connects these novels to larger theoretical issues, demonstrating how a deep understanding of Japanese imperialism challenges prevailing accounts of postcolonialism.
Download or read book Hitchcock as Philosopher of the Erotic written by Richard Gilmore and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-06-07 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reads Alfred Hitchcock as a philosopher of what constitutes the erotic. The author argues that Hitchcock is doing a post-Nietzschean, postmodern kind of philosophy in which he is exploring and creating possibilities of what the erotic can feel like and how the erotic can be expressed. The erotic is a pervasive phenomenon in Hitchcock’s films. It involves irony, play, and sophistication, and there can be erotic failures as well as erotic successes. The erotic is most complexly explored by Hitchcock in his two masterpieces from the 1950s: Vertigo (1958), a story of the failure of the erotic, and North by Northwest (1959), in which the erotic is consummated in marriage. The author argues that Hitchcock has a philosophical theory about what makes the difference. It is a version of existential philosophy that understands what a person is to be based on what they make of themselves through their choices. The author argues that the erotic for Hitchcock is a process of mutual, reciprocal creation of the personality of the other person. This process is complicated by the fact that as one attempts to create the person one desires, one is simultaneously being created by that other person, and so what one desires is also in a process of being recreated in the mutual reciprocal dance of the erotic entanglement. There is a moral dimension to this because erotic failure is, in a way, a failure of the human, not in the sense of a human essence, but in the sense of realizing human possibilities that can make our lives more satisfying, complete, and full. Hitchcock as Philosopher of the Erotic will appeal to scholars and advanced students working on philosophy of film, film studies, and philosophy of love and sex.
Download or read book Absolute Erotic Absolute Grotesque written by Mark W. Driscoll and published by Duke University Press Books. This book was released on 2010-08-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this major reassessment of Japanese imperialism in Asia, Mark Driscoll foregrounds the role of human life and labor. Drawing on subaltern postcolonial studies and Marxism, he directs critical attention to the peripheries, where figures including Chinese coolies, Japanese pimps, trafficked Japanese women, and Korean tenant farmers supplied the vital energy that drove Japan's empire. He identifies three phases of Japan's capitalist expansion, each powered by distinct modes of capturing and expropriating life and labor: biopolitics (1895–1914), neuropolitics (1920–32), and necropolitics (1935-45). During the first phase, Japanese elites harnessed the labor of marginalized subjects as Japan colonized Taiwan, Korea, and south Manchuria, and sent hustlers and sex workers into China to expand its market hegemony. Linking the deformed bodies laboring in the peripheries with the "erotic-grotesque" media in the metropole, Driscoll centers the second phase on commercial sexology, pornography, and detective stories in Tokyo to argue that by 1930, capitalism had colonized all aspects of human life: not just labor practices but also consumers’ attention and leisure time. Focusing on Japan's Manchukuo colony in the third phase, he shows what happens to the central figures of biopolitics as they are subsumed under necropolitical capitalism: coolies become forced laborers, pimps turn into state officials and authorized narcotraffickers, and sex workers become "comfort women". Driscoll concludes by discussing Chinese fiction written inside Manchukuo, describing the everyday violence unleashed by necropolitics.
Download or read book Absolute Submission written by M. Rennie and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All new elegant erotica from M. J. Rennie! ABSOLUTE SBMISSION is the story of a man driven to infidelity because his wife is no longer interested in sex. Rennie's newest offering explores the powerful emotions that underlie loyalty and love, infidelity and betrayal, dominance and submission. Exquisitely explicit scenes with witty, intelligent dialogue take center stage in this torrid romance. Although desperately unhappy with the arid relationship he endures with his wife Crystal, Martin James becomes increasingly resigned to a life of sexual denial. When random chance brings him together with his former lover Veronica, fires that have smoldered for years suddenly re-ignite. In the midst of their steamy reunion, Martin and Veronica discover that the passions that engaged them so long ago have never been extinguished. Even more to Martin's liking, he learns that Veronica has developed a taste for sexual behaviors that are far outside the mainstream, and she wants nothing more than for her rediscovered lover to share her dark, deviant desires. Once he is fully in her thrall, Veronica embarks on a scheme to dispense with the last of Martin's inhibitions, engineering a final, freakish surprise. ABSOLUTE SUBMISSION is a richly sensual masterpiece that raises the erotic genre to a whole new level of literary distinction.
Download or read book Absolute Sweden written by Benno Thoma and published by Bruno Gmuender Gmbh. This book was released on 2001-01 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 96 pages of full colour and duo-tone photographs.
Download or read book The Absolute written by Daniel Guebel and published by Seven Stories Press. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner.... Premio Municipal de la Novela 2021 Premio Nacional de Literatura Argentina 2018 Premio Literario de la Academia Argentina de Letras 2017 Best Novel Award by La Nación 2016 A provocative multigenerational exploration of creative genius, madness, and family relationships. With the ambition and density of style of Vladimir Nabokov or Olga Tokarczuk, this is a story both profound and handled with a light touch. The Absolute is a sprawling historical novel about the Deliuskin-Scriabin family, made up of six generations of geniuses and madmen. Beginning in the mid-18th century in Russia, across Europe and ending in late 20th-century Argentina, the characters’ lives play out in different branches of art, politics and science in such radical ways that they transform the world and its reality. The narrator’s ancestor, Frantisek Deliuskin, invents a new form of music in the 18th century; his son, Andrei Deliuskin, makes some marginal annotations to the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola that are later interpreted by Lenin as an instruction manual to carry out the Russian Revolution of 1917; Esau Deliuskin, following the course of his father, creates a socialist utopian society; and down through the generations to the narrator, whose creation takes him back in time and space to the moment of the Big Bang. The Absolute is a monumental work about the creation of art and about family, about spiritual traditions and about throwing oneself into the world not to capture life but to create it, in and through words. “This is a masterpiece at a time when masterpieces seem impossible and at the same time challenges the very idea of a masterpiece. … It’s the novel one should read if they want to know what an artist is.” —La Nación
Download or read book Resurrecting Erotic Transgression written by Anita Monro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Resurrecting Erotic Transgression' presents a feminist theological methodology based on the work of Julia Kristeva. This methodology provides the means for 'subjecting ambiguity', bringing to theology a recognition of the multiplicity of language and identity. A method of 'poetic reading' is proposed with a three stage process: articulation of the dualities present in and around a focal discourse; subversion of these dualities through a range of strategies; and the re-presentation of the discourse emphasising its ambiguous nature. The hermeneutical method of 'poetic reading' is explored in relation to three biblical texts and an image of the 'otherness' of God as whore.
Download or read book The Erotic Contemplative written by Michael Bernard Kelly and published by Clouds of Magellan. This book was released on 2021-11-29 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1994, Michael Bernard Kelly recorded six video lectures for the Erospirit Research Institute. The Erotic Contemplative charted a spirituality for gay and lesbian Christians grounded in the contemplative, mystical traditions of the church. Dr Joseph Kramer, who commissioned the lectures, writes: "His powerful words ... seemed to come straight from his heart and right into mine. I told Michael that he was offering transformative guidance, like Joseph Campbell did in his Hero's Journey. 'You have described the Mystic's Journey for Gay and Lesbian Christians.' " The lectures, originally released in 1995, were digitised and re-released in 2020. Now this transcription of all the lectures is published for the first time, and includes a study guide to the series prepared by Michael Kelly. "The Erotic Contemplative" is the most powerful and insightful study of Gay Spirituality that I know of. I have watched 'The Road from Emmaus' lecture three times, and still find new riches!" - John J. McNeill, PhD. Author of The Church and the Homosexual.
Download or read book Best Fetish Erotica written by Cara Bruce and published by Cleis Press Start. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this reissued version of Cara Bruce’s popular anthology explore the irresistible lure of the sexual fetish, from leather and lingerie to shoes and shaving accessories. Nearly two dozen of today’s top erotica authors feature characters getting in and out of corsets and girdles, cross-dressing, giving or enduring spankings, playing with knives and rubber balls, and engaging in a host of other taboo yet tantalizing activities. Authors include Susie Bright, Alison Tyler, Marcy Sheiner, Thomas Roche, Greg Wharton, Rachel Resnick, and others.
Download or read book Mistress Absolute written by Alex Jordaine and published by Xcite Book. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert's life changes forever when he allows himself to get drawn into the deviant world of sexually dominant Tessa and her best friend Hannah, a powerful dominatrix. In the dark, erotic games the two women play with Robert they demonstrate how deliciously seductive and cruel they can be. They take him on a journey of sexual awakening and Robert is forced to come to terms with himself as the profoundly submissive person he has always been deep inside. But what had started as a partnership between Tessa and Hannah becomes a fierce competition when both decide that they want him exclusively as their personal slave. The one who must decide which of them is to be his 'Mistress Absolute' is Robert himself. And it is an agonisingly difficult choice for him to have to make. Praise for Alex Jordaine titles: 'Multiple O's rating. A real BDSM lover's dream.' Romance Reviews Today 'Compelling and arousing - a sure-fire winner.' Forum Magazine 'Brilliantly written.' Midnight Boudoir 'Great Femdom erotica.' Cara Sutra
Download or read book Perplexity and Ultimacy written by William Desmond and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1995-08-17 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desmond explores perplexity regarding ultimacy--the metaphysical perplexity that precedes and exceeds scientific and commonsense curiosity.
Download or read book Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography Erotica and antisocial behavior written by United States. Commission on Obscenity and Pornography and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plato s Erotic World written by Jill Gordon and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-13 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the fundamental importance of eros in Plato's writing, which views the human soul as primordially erotic. Challenging the traditional designation of specific dialogues as the "erotic dialogues," Jill Gordon argues that eros permeates Plato's fictive world, including the metaphysical, epistemological, and cosmological conversations in Timaeus, Cratylus, Parmenides, Theaetetus, and Phaedo.
Download or read book Sensual Erotica written by Molly Reynolds and published by PaperGram LLC. This book was released on 2023-01-24 with total page 1819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of 120 erotic short stories is sure to tantalize and excite readers with its wide range of steamy tales. From the passionate and romantic to the daring and wild, this book has something for everyone.
