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 […]
What is most compelling about these readings is that they take us through a morphing of sexuality. I keep coming back to the timeline we drew in class and applying the Foucauldian progression of sexuality to the American sexual identity that has its origins in Europe. Going back to Part Five in History of Sexuality […]
The most extravagant shift in Hawthorne’s novel is one mobilized by a light that can come only after an extreme darkness: Hester and Dimmesdale’s meeting in the forest is traced by their mutual illuminations on personal truth in contrast to the “human law” and the “higher truth” that govern their fellow townsfolk (217). Their revelations […]
This evening, Beyonce and her intense thigh action ruined my efforts to finish my submission in time, but it provided me with fantastic context for understanding Foucault’s repressive hypothesis and his epistemology on human sexuality. As I saw America’s Sweetheart gyrate relentlessly amid the backdrop of captivating pyrotechnics, dazzling projection screens and an army of […]
