Tuesday, September 18, 2007

Apaglia pro homen, or Camille gives the girls a hard time

Camille Paglia, on men and sperm, here.

Best paragraph:

Aydemir belongs to the school of criticism that views everything in art, history, or culture as a "text," a slippery narrative that can be read like a book. The problems with this language-based style of analysis are, first, that its conclusions are already tediously contained in its premises and, second, that it makes a poor fit with subjects, such as sex, that overlap the physical world of concrete action. Predictably, ejaculation as Aydemir treats it accomplishes or supplies nothing but a descent into the murky waters of infinite subjectivity.

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