Scream at Life: The Self as Erotic Figure

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The Self as Erotic Figure

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Pages:: 325–360

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004549388_012

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In the Logic of Sensation, Gilles Deleuze applies his philosophy on aesthetics to the painted figures of the artist Francis Bacon, with particular focus on the sensation of “the scream”: a human cry embodied as a fall, where people “find themselves,” even when selfhood dissolves for a moment. This chapter uses the concepts, percepts and affects of a Deleuzian scream to study three heterogeneous aesthetic experiences. First, Danko Stante’s film Consequences, a pioneer LGBTQI+ movie from Slovenia, is discussed highlighting the logics of powers exerted on an individual, ultimately resulting in a cinematic expression of a scream. Next, the short film pros-thesis, directed by Lawrence Buttigieg, is explored seeking how a scream gets encoded into moving images from the perspective of a painter. Lastly, the sensation of a scream is applied to explore masochistic experiences founded on the social media website of financial domination (#Findom). In this way, the chapter is constructed as a triptych, indicating the trajectory of the erotic in contemporary societies. Today, new forms of scream are experienced after the COVID-19 pandemic. Tracing the signs of the times, this research reveals a “new normal” of artistic expression in the 21st century: the self as erotic figure.

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Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World

Beyond the Biopolitics of the New Normal

Series: Critical Studies Online, Volume: 42 and Critical Studies, Volume: 42

Cover Sexuality and Eroticism in a Post-pandemic World

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004549388

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 11 Sep 2023

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Part 1 Beyond Repression: Defying the Moral Codes of 21st Century Authoritarianism

Part 2 Beyond Sex: Embodying Pleasure and Sexuality in Times of Social Distancing

Part 3 Beyond Gender: Challenging Patriarchal and Heteronormative Sex Education through Alternative Pornography

Part 4 Beyond the Senses: Immersing into Self-Exploration through Visual and Plastic Arts

Part 5 Beyond the Ego: Embracing the Spiritual Possibilities of Desire

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