BONUS: Upstream Podcast - Sex, Desire, and the Neoliberal Subject
Added 2024-08-16 22:05:44 +0000 UTCNo new episode this week, but we do have a special BONUS episode from our friends at Upstream Podcast who recently covered Carlee's piece "The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire" for Lo Specchio Scuro as part of their Patreon reading series. Enjoy!
What do sex scenes in film have to do with the crushing weight of capitalism? How have our bodily desires and passions been ambushed, commodified, and exhausted by the constant, catastrophic impacts of a system that alienates as it extracts? How have we been trained to conflate consumption and activism under neoliberalism, so that the very act of consuming limits our political aspirations and actions? And why the hell are there so few sex scenes in cinema these days?
These are just some of the questions we explore in this episode as Robert reads a beautifully-written and wide-reaching piece by friend of the show Carlee Gomes (co-host of the podcast Hit Factory): “The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire.”
Further resources:
· “The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire,” by Carlee Gomes
