After the Orgy: Toward a Politics of ExhaustionSUNY Press, 17. jul. 2002 - 204 strani Applying Jean Baudrillard s question What are you doing after the orgy? to the postmillennial climate that informs our contemporary cultural moment, this book argues that the imagination of apocalyptic endings has been an obsessive theme in post-Enlightenment culture. Dominic Pettman identifies and examines the dynamic tensions of various apocalyptic discourses, from the fin-de-siècle decadents of the 1890s to the fin-de-millènnium cyberpunks of the 1990s, in order to highlight the complex constellation of exhaustion, anticipation, panic, and ecstasy in contemporary culture. Through analyses of rapturous cults, cyberpunk literature, post-apocalyptic cinema, techno-paganism, death fashion, and the Y2K prophecy, After the Orgy explores why the twentieth century swung so violently between the poles of anticipation and anticlimax. In the process, the book raises pressing questions concerning the relevance of such ideas in our new millennium and points out alternatives to the monotonous horror of traditional narratives. |
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Prophecy and the Satyr | 25 |
The Goat in the Machine | 31 |
The Rapture of Rupture | 37 |
Sade and the Death of God | 40 |
Avoiding the Void | 42 |
Eroticism and the Thanatic Asymptote | 48 |
Nietzsches Dionysus | 52 |
Nihilism and the Thirst for Annihilation | 57 |
Cosmic Architects | 117 |
Immaculate Contraception | 120 |
The Frisson of Fission | 124 |
Dionysus in 69 | 130 |
The Politics of Play | 137 |
PretaMort Necrophilia and Death Fashion | 141 |
the Joachite Structure of Baudrillards Philosophy | 144 |
Temporary Autonomous Zones and the Archaic Revival | 157 |
The Virtual Apocalypse | 63 |
Virilios Accident | 67 |
Bacchanical Man and Ballards Crash | 71 |
From Autogeddon to Infocalypse | 78 |
Snow Crash and Scopophilia | 82 |
Cyborgies in the Dionysian Landscape | 88 |
Carmageddon | 97 |
Satiety and Society | 99 |
Defragging the Self | 106 |
Technologies of the Flesh | 110 |
Civilization and Its Discotheques | 162 |
After the Orgy But Before the Test Results | 168 |
The Revelation Will not be Televised | 171 |
The Owl of Minerva Versus the Millennium Falcon | 178 |
Means to an End | 180 |
Notes | 183 |
Works Cited | 187 |
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accident anticipation apocalypse Apollonian artificial Autogeddon Ballard Bataille Bataille's Baudrillard become believes body Bomb Camille Paglia Christian concept consciousness cult culture cybersex death fashion decadent Derrida desire destruction Dionysian Dionysus Eros erotic eroticism eschatology Esseintes eternal exhaustion experience fantasies fin de siècle flesh Foucault future Heaven's Gate Heaven's Gate cult human Huysmans Huysmans's ibid Internet J.G. Ballard Jean Baudrillard kind libertine libidinal millenarianism live logic London machine Maffesoli McKenna merely metaphor Metaverse millennial millennium modern moral narrative nature Nietzsche Nietzsche's nihilism Nordau notion nuclear Nuttall organic orgasm orgiastic orgy pagan panic philosophy political postmodern prophecy prophetic rave reality Rebours represents Revelation Sade Sade's Sadean seek sense sexual revolution simulation sixties Snow Crash social space symbolic Temporary Autonomous Zone thanatic asymptote Thanatos things tion transcendence transgression twentieth century utopian Vaughan Virilio virtual virus writes
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Stran 16 - Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Stran 14 - Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
Stran 15 - And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
Stran 14 - The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
Stran 15 - BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.
Navedki za to knjigo
Love and Other Technologies: Retrofitting Eros for the Information Age Dominic Pettman Predogled ni na voljo - 2006 |