This Wunder Kammer
Saturday, March 16th, 2013
The modern museum is a direct descendant of the Victorian ‘cabinet of curiosities.’ In that era, the worldly, the wealthy and the wise make an art of collecting and ordering tchotchkes and artifacts from all across the heathen kingdoms of botany, biology, and colony. Within the wunderkammers, the perverse, the shocking, and the odd were […]
This Wunder Kammer
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CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
We are in the age of exhibitionism! Sex is an exciting product. It has market value! Who needs prostitution when you have the Internet? I found the cyber exhibit extremely entertaining. We are under the complete illusion that we can keep our sexual discourse somewhat private online. Even those amateur porn stars have this illusion […]
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
Tags: Chobits, Museum of Sex
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Sexual Darwinism
Wednesday, March 13th, 2013
Walking trough the animal sex exhibit in MoSex, I noticed one wall close to the entrance dedicated to Charles Darwin. This was, aside from the artist’s statement, the only purely conceptual panel in the exhibit. Darwin, who lived during the Victorian era, is widely credited as the founder of the theory of evolution through natural […]
Sexual Darwinism
Tags: Darwin, Evolution, Foucault, MoSex, Museums, Natural Selection
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Silicone Genitalia
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
There was something too flash about my visit to the Museum of Sex today. Perhaps I’m still exhausted from midterms, but I was unnerved by the awkward reactions people had–myself included. I walked by three women who were fascinated by the human models we could touch. One asks the other two, “You’d this would be […]
Silicone Genitalia
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My Encounters in the Museum of Sex
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
The disconcerting fact, or perhaps, the charm of the Museum of Sex, is the constant zigzag of the exhibits from the realms of pornography to education. Needless to say, the experience is entirely subjective, as is the visit itself. What I took away today in an instructional setting was, I imagine, entirely different from the […]
My Encounters in the Museum of Sex
Tags: Behavior, Michel Foucault, Museum of Sex
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MoSex
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
Although I enjoyed my first visit to the Museum of Sex, I wasn’t all that impressed by its curation. There were exciting, educational elements for sure, but I at times I had difficulty navigating the exhibitions. For example, the installation that was located in the hallway between the “Universe of Desire” room and the Permanent […]
MoSex
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MoSex 3/12/13
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
I appreciated the frankness of everything. It was interesting, and kind of fun, to look at pornographic images in a public space, with people all around contemplating, giggling, and saying funny things. I’d like to stand next to those rubber bodies that you’re allowed to touch for an entire day and watch how each visitor […]
MoSex 3/12/13
Tags: Age, Animal Sexuality, Internet, MoSex, Museum of Sex, porn, Youth
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