Elliott Antokoletz
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- May 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780195365825
- eISBN:
- 9780199868865
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195365825.003.0007
- Subject:
- Music, Opera
This chapter first looks at Act IV, Scene 1, a room in the castle. This scene anticipates Pelléas's fate as foreseen by his father. It then next looks at Act IV, Scene 2, which presents Mélisande as ...
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This chapter first looks at Act IV, Scene 1, a room in the castle. This scene anticipates Pelléas's fate as foreseen by his father. It then next looks at Act IV, Scene 2, which presents Mélisande as symbol of resurrection as foreseen by Arkel, while Golaud's vengeance and Mélisande's hair are presented as a symbol of the Crucifixion. Next the chapter turns to Act IV, Scene 3 — a well in the park — which provides a symbol of the sacrificial lamb. Scene 4 is based on the love duet and the death of Pelléas. Finally, the chapter looks at Act IV, Scene 4, which addresses structure and proportion in the service of musico-dramatic development and emotional climax. This scene presents the “Shadows” motif and “Ecstasy” motif. The fusion of light and dark is represented by octatonic fusion of pentatonic and whole-tone sets. The scene culminates with Golaud's vengeance and the fulfillment of fate.Less
This chapter first looks at Act IV, Scene 1, a room in the castle. This scene anticipates Pelléas's fate as foreseen by his father. It then next looks at Act IV, Scene 2, which presents Mélisande as symbol of resurrection as foreseen by Arkel, while Golaud's vengeance and Mélisande's hair are presented as a symbol of the Crucifixion. Next the chapter turns to Act IV, Scene 3 — a well in the park — which provides a symbol of the sacrificial lamb. Scene 4 is based on the love duet and the death of Pelléas. Finally, the chapter looks at Act IV, Scene 4, which addresses structure and proportion in the service of musico-dramatic development and emotional climax. This scene presents the “Shadows” motif and “Ecstasy” motif. The fusion of light and dark is represented by octatonic fusion of pentatonic and whole-tone sets. The scene culminates with Golaud's vengeance and the fulfillment of fate.
Frida Beckman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748642618
- eISBN:
- 9780748671755
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642618.001.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
For Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained in specific forms while at the same time they retain revolutionary potential. ...
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For Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained in specific forms while at the same time they retain revolutionary potential. There is immense power in the thousand sexes of desiring-machines, and sexuality is seen as a source of becoming. This book gathers prominent Deleuze scholars to explore the restricting and liberating forces of sexuality in relation to a spread of central themes in Deleuze's philosophy, including politics, psychoanalysis and friendship as well as specific topics such as the body-machine, disability, feminism and erotics.Less
For Deleuze, sexuality is a force that can capture as well as liberate life. Its flows tend to be repressed and contained in specific forms while at the same time they retain revolutionary potential. There is immense power in the thousand sexes of desiring-machines, and sexuality is seen as a source of becoming. This book gathers prominent Deleuze scholars to explore the restricting and liberating forces of sexuality in relation to a spread of central themes in Deleuze's philosophy, including politics, psychoanalysis and friendship as well as specific topics such as the body-machine, disability, feminism and erotics.
Jeremy Biles and Kent Brintnall (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823265190
- eISBN:
- 9780823266890
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265190.001.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, ...
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Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of religious studies and theology, forging links with feminist and queer theory, economics, secularism, psychoanalysis, fat studies, and ethics. As these essays demonstrate, Bataille’s work bears significance to contemporary questions in the academy and vital issues in the world. We continue to ignore him at our peril.Less
Despite Georges Bataille’s acknowledged influence on major poststructuralist thinkers—including Foucault, Derrida, Kristeva, Lacan, Baudrillard, and Barthes—and his prominence in literary, cultural, and social theory, rarely has he been taken up by scholars of religion, even as issues of the sacred were central to his thinking. Bringing together established scholars and emerging voices, Negative Ecstasies engages Bataille from the perspective of religious studies and theology, forging links with feminist and queer theory, economics, secularism, psychoanalysis, fat studies, and ethics. As these essays demonstrate, Bataille’s work bears significance to contemporary questions in the academy and vital issues in the world. We continue to ignore him at our peril.
LESLIE IVERSEN
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780198530909
- eISBN:
- 9780191689802
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198530909.001.0001
- Subject:
- Neuroscience, Behavioral Neuroscience
Amphetamines have had a relatively short, though chequered history. From their use in wartime, their abuse by the beat generation, up to the popularity of Ecstasy in the ...
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Amphetamines have had a relatively short, though chequered history. From their use in wartime, their abuse by the beat generation, up to the popularity of Ecstasy in the late 20th century, many have found amphetamines an enjoyable, though unpredictable, stimulant. More than that though, amphetamine-based treatments have been found to have beneficial effects for those suffering from attention-deficit disorders, and are now widely prescribed in the US and elsewhere as a treatment for children and adults. What is the truth behind these medical claims? What are the real effects of stimulants like Ecstasy? Just how harmful are amphetamines? This book explores the uses and abuses of amphetamines. Starting with a look at the origins of amphetamines, their use in wartime and by poets, musicians — and even a President of the US — it presents an account of amphetamine use. It examines the evidence for the claims that drugs like Ecstasy kill, and considers the widespread use of amphetamines for ADHD, presenting an account based on science and fact, rather than dogma.Less
Amphetamines have had a relatively short, though chequered history. From their use in wartime, their abuse by the beat generation, up to the popularity of Ecstasy in the late 20th century, many have found amphetamines an enjoyable, though unpredictable, stimulant. More than that though, amphetamine-based treatments have been found to have beneficial effects for those suffering from attention-deficit disorders, and are now widely prescribed in the US and elsewhere as a treatment for children and adults. What is the truth behind these medical claims? What are the real effects of stimulants like Ecstasy? Just how harmful are amphetamines? This book explores the uses and abuses of amphetamines. Starting with a look at the origins of amphetamines, their use in wartime and by poets, musicians — and even a President of the US — it presents an account of amphetamine use. It examines the evidence for the claims that drugs like Ecstasy kill, and considers the widespread use of amphetamines for ADHD, presenting an account based on science and fact, rather than dogma.
Patricia MacCormack
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780748642618
- eISBN:
- 9780748671755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Edinburgh University Press
- DOI:
- 10.3366/edinburgh/9780748642618.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Political Philosophy
‘How’, this chapter asks, ‘can we think a sexuality which is larval potentiality, non-volitional or authorised by self or regimes of signification, which has no before and after but is always and ...
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‘How’, this chapter asks, ‘can we think a sexuality which is larval potentiality, non-volitional or authorised by self or regimes of signification, which has no before and after but is always and infinite, and which is loss of self without nihilism, an imperceptible sexuality?’ Weighing masochism against ecstasy, MacCormack shows that while the more frequently noted subject of masochism in Deleuze's philosophy has limitations with regard to becoming-imperceptible, the underexplored theme of ecstasy harbours a great potential for escaping signification. If masochism in Deleuze emerges through a web of temporal and contractual conditions, ecstasy is outside time. It introduces the unexpected and the unknown, it is an intensity that cannot under any circumstances be reduced to subjectivity and signification. If masochism is human, ecstasy is non-human. Paying attention to mysticism, the demonic and the angelical, and focusing particularly on the ecstatic experiences of Saint Teresa of Avila, MacCormack explores the functions of pain, flesh and the body in making unnatural connections and becomings.Less
‘How’, this chapter asks, ‘can we think a sexuality which is larval potentiality, non-volitional or authorised by self or regimes of signification, which has no before and after but is always and infinite, and which is loss of self without nihilism, an imperceptible sexuality?’ Weighing masochism against ecstasy, MacCormack shows that while the more frequently noted subject of masochism in Deleuze's philosophy has limitations with regard to becoming-imperceptible, the underexplored theme of ecstasy harbours a great potential for escaping signification. If masochism in Deleuze emerges through a web of temporal and contractual conditions, ecstasy is outside time. It introduces the unexpected and the unknown, it is an intensity that cannot under any circumstances be reduced to subjectivity and signification. If masochism is human, ecstasy is non-human. Paying attention to mysticism, the demonic and the angelical, and focusing particularly on the ecstatic experiences of Saint Teresa of Avila, MacCormack explores the functions of pain, flesh and the body in making unnatural connections and becomings.
Kent L. Brintnall
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226074696
- eISBN:
- 9780226074719
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226074719.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, History of Christianity
This book concludes by discussing a short pornographic novel written in the fall of 1941, which Bataille characterizes as key to understanding his theoretical text Inner Experience. Amy Hollywood, in ...
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This book concludes by discussing a short pornographic novel written in the fall of 1941, which Bataille characterizes as key to understanding his theoretical text Inner Experience. Amy Hollywood, in Sensible Ecstasy, describes the opening scene of this novel as something that “looks like a classic moment of fetishization” to bolster her contention that “for Bataille, the female sex is a wound, a terrifying and beautiful mark of castration, of the emergence of life out of laceration.” This scene is crucial to assessing Bataille's representation of women, not because, as Hollywood suggests, it looks like the fetishistic drama, but precisely because it looks quite unlike it, assigning new roles and reactions to the actors, culminating in an alternate climax.Less
This book concludes by discussing a short pornographic novel written in the fall of 1941, which Bataille characterizes as key to understanding his theoretical text Inner Experience. Amy Hollywood, in Sensible Ecstasy, describes the opening scene of this novel as something that “looks like a classic moment of fetishization” to bolster her contention that “for Bataille, the female sex is a wound, a terrifying and beautiful mark of castration, of the emergence of life out of laceration.” This scene is crucial to assessing Bataille's representation of women, not because, as Hollywood suggests, it looks like the fetishistic drama, but precisely because it looks quite unlike it, assigning new roles and reactions to the actors, culminating in an alternate climax.
Scott Kugle
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781469626772
- eISBN:
- 9781469626796
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/northcarolina/9781469626772.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Islam
This chapter explains the musical quality of Siraj Awrangabadi’s poetry. He wrote his poems to be sung in sama`, the Sufi gatherings meant for listening to devotional music. This tradition is knows ...
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This chapter explains the musical quality of Siraj Awrangabadi’s poetry. He wrote his poems to be sung in sama`, the Sufi gatherings meant for listening to devotional music. This tradition is knows as Qawwali, and is integral to the Chishti order as its spread in the Deccan. The chapter ends by discussing Siraj’s legacy as a Sufi master and how his death was memorialized in Urdu and Persian poetry.Less
This chapter explains the musical quality of Siraj Awrangabadi’s poetry. He wrote his poems to be sung in sama`, the Sufi gatherings meant for listening to devotional music. This tradition is knows as Qawwali, and is integral to the Chishti order as its spread in the Deccan. The chapter ends by discussing Siraj’s legacy as a Sufi master and how his death was memorialized in Urdu and Persian poetry.
Johan A. Lindquist
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824832018
- eISBN:
- 9780824869977
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824832018.003.0004
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Asian Cultural Anthropology
This chapter focuses on Ozon, the largest disco on Batam, and what it can reveal about processes that shape the lives of Indonesian migrants and, more generally, a particular form of transnational ...
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This chapter focuses on Ozon, the largest disco on Batam, and what it can reveal about processes that shape the lives of Indonesian migrants and, more generally, a particular form of transnational economy. In Ozon women consume Ecstasy in order to deal with feelings of malu—particularly in relation to Islamic prohibitions and the fear that family members will find out they work as prostitutes—and thus more easily engage in prostitution with Singaporean clients. Outside of Ozon relationships with boyfriends, children, and other family members are transformed, as women become the main breadwinners and men are increasingly marginalized. Through this process both female prostitutes and their male Indonesian partners come to recognize themselves as liar, outside the promises of the Indonesian nation and part of the underclass.Less
This chapter focuses on Ozon, the largest disco on Batam, and what it can reveal about processes that shape the lives of Indonesian migrants and, more generally, a particular form of transnational economy. In Ozon women consume Ecstasy in order to deal with feelings of malu—particularly in relation to Islamic prohibitions and the fear that family members will find out they work as prostitutes—and thus more easily engage in prostitution with Singaporean clients. Outside of Ozon relationships with boyfriends, children, and other family members are transformed, as women become the main breadwinners and men are increasingly marginalized. Through this process both female prostitutes and their male Indonesian partners come to recognize themselves as liar, outside the promises of the Indonesian nation and part of the underclass.
Jeremy Biles
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823265190
- eISBN:
- 9780823266890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265190.003.0015
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
In light of his polemical relations with André Breton and his critiques of surrealism, Bataille is widely but mistakenly thought to have an aversion to the dream and the unconscious. Revealing ...
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In light of his polemical relations with André Breton and his critiques of surrealism, Bataille is widely but mistakenly thought to have an aversion to the dream and the unconscious. Revealing important connections between psychoanalysis and Bataille, this essay seeks to correct this misreading of Bataille, demonstrating that for Bataille, dream and the powers of the unconscious are in fact intimately related to his conception of the sacred. The essay adumbrates a Bataillean “heterological” approach to the dream and dream interpretation, arguing that for Bataille, the dream is a crucial element of ecstatic “nonknowledge” and “inner experience.”Less
In light of his polemical relations with André Breton and his critiques of surrealism, Bataille is widely but mistakenly thought to have an aversion to the dream and the unconscious. Revealing important connections between psychoanalysis and Bataille, this essay seeks to correct this misreading of Bataille, demonstrating that for Bataille, dream and the powers of the unconscious are in fact intimately related to his conception of the sacred. The essay adumbrates a Bataillean “heterological” approach to the dream and dream interpretation, arguing that for Bataille, the dream is a crucial element of ecstatic “nonknowledge” and “inner experience.”
Amy Hollywood
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780823265190
- eISBN:
- 9780823266890
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823265190.003.0016
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
Amy Hollywood discusses the experience of viewing images of torture, mutilation, and devastation. Drawing the distinction between reading descriptions of such horrors and viewing the image, she ...
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Amy Hollywood discusses the experience of viewing images of torture, mutilation, and devastation. Drawing the distinction between reading descriptions of such horrors and viewing the image, she explores the ways in which Bataille was haunted by photographs of bodily catastrophe. She enforces Bataille’s point that we should look at such photographs if we are, in fact, horrified by them. To become immune to such images, she notes, would render us past the points of ethics and sovereignty.Less
Amy Hollywood discusses the experience of viewing images of torture, mutilation, and devastation. Drawing the distinction between reading descriptions of such horrors and viewing the image, she explores the ways in which Bataille was haunted by photographs of bodily catastrophe. She enforces Bataille’s point that we should look at such photographs if we are, in fact, horrified by them. To become immune to such images, she notes, would render us past the points of ethics and sovereignty.
Eric Ames
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816677634
- eISBN:
- 9781452948140
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816677634.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
This chapter locates Herzog’s documentaries vis-à-vis the transatlantic revival of the baroque in twentieth-century culture. It argues that the baroque, which is characterized in aesthetic terms by ...
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This chapter locates Herzog’s documentaries vis-à-vis the transatlantic revival of the baroque in twentieth-century culture. It argues that the baroque, which is characterized in aesthetic terms by hyperstylization, offers both an interpretive key to Herzog’s vision of documentary cinema and an important context for his contribution to it. From The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) to Death for Five Voices (1995) to God and the Burdened (2000), Herzog’s documentaries involve various manifestations of the baroque, past and present, sacred and secular, in Europe as well as in Latin America. Understood as a transatlantic topos, the baroque gives new meaning to Herzog’s movement as a traveling director and its relationship to his documentaries in particular.Less
This chapter locates Herzog’s documentaries vis-à-vis the transatlantic revival of the baroque in twentieth-century culture. It argues that the baroque, which is characterized in aesthetic terms by hyperstylization, offers both an interpretive key to Herzog’s vision of documentary cinema and an important context for his contribution to it. From The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974) to Death for Five Voices (1995) to God and the Burdened (2000), Herzog’s documentaries involve various manifestations of the baroque, past and present, sacred and secular, in Europe as well as in Latin America. Understood as a transatlantic topos, the baroque gives new meaning to Herzog’s movement as a traveling director and its relationship to his documentaries in particular.
