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The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic - Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World (Paperback)
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The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic - Philosophies of Desire in the Modern World (Paperback)
Series: Bloomsbury Revelations
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In The Sex Appeal of the Inorganic, Mario Perniola puts forth the
radical argument that we are shifting away from organic sexuality,
based on desire and pleasure, and moving towards a more neutral
inorganic and artificial sexuality, a sexuality always available
but indifferent to beauty, age or form. Perniola takes the reader
on a tour of Western philosophy, from Descartes, Kant and Hegel to
Heidegger, Wittgenstein and Sartre, to reframe our understanding of
personal experience and the aesthetic world around us. In order to
realize the sex appeal of the inorganic Perniola argues that we
must become 'things that feel', we must think ourselves closer to
the inorganic, creating an alliance between senses and things.
Examples from contemporary culture that, for Perniola, are emblems
of the sex appeal of the inorganic, include progressive rock music,
fashion, deconstructive architecture and the novels of Georges
Perec.
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