Producing Desire
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Author |
: Dror Ze’evi |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2006-10-16 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780520938984 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0520938984 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis Producing Desire by : Dror Ze’evi
This highly original book brings into focus the sexual discourses manifest in a wealth of little-studied source material—medical texts, legal documents, religious literature, dream interpretation manuals, shadow theater, and travelogues—in a nuanced, wide-ranging, and powerfully analytic exploration of Ottoman sexual thought and practices from the heyday of the Ottoman Empire in the sixteenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. Following on the work of Foucault, Gagnon, Laqueur, and others, the premise of the book is that people shape their ideas of what is permissible, define boundaries of right and wrong, and imagine their sexual worlds through the set of discourses available to them. Dror Ze’evi finds that while some of these discourses were restrictive and others more permissive, all treated sex in its many manifestations as a natural human pursuit. And, he further argues that all these discourses were transformed and finally silenced in the last century, leaving very little to inform Middle Eastern societies in sexual matters. With its innovative approach toward the history of sexuality in the Middle East, Producing Desire sheds new light on the history of the Ottoman Empire, on the history of sexuality and gender, and on the Islamic Middle East today.
Author |
: Dror Zeʼevi |
Publisher |
: Univ of California Press |
Total Pages |
: 254 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0520245644 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780520245648 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Producing Desire by : Dror Zeʼevi
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Author |
: Aurora Donzelli |
Publisher |
: University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2019-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780824880477 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0824880471 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (77 Downloads) |
Synopsis Methods of Desire by : Aurora Donzelli
Since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s, Indonesia has undergone a radical program of administrative decentralization and neoliberal reforms. In Methods of Desire, author Aurora Donzelli explores these changes through an innovative perspective—one that locates the production of neoliberalism in novel patterns of language use and new styles of affect display. Building on almost two decades of fieldwork, Donzelli describes how the growing influence of transnational lending agencies is transforming the ways in which people desire and voice their expectations, intentions, and entitlements within the emergent participatory democracy and restructuring of Indonesia’s political economy. She argues that a largely overlooked aspect of the Era Reformasi concerns the transition from a moral regime centered on the expectation that desires should remain hidden to a new emphasis on the public expression of individuals’ aspirations. The book examines how the large-scale institutional transformations that followed the collapse of the Suharto regime have impacted people’s lives and imaginations in the relatively remote and primarily rural Toraja highlands of Sulawesi. A novel concept of the individual as a bundle of audible and measurable desires has emerged, one that contrasts with the deep-rooted reticence toward the expression of personal preferences. The spreading of foreign discursive genres such as customer satisfaction surveys, training sessions, electoral mission statements, and fundraising auctions, and the diffusion of new textual artifacts such as checklists, flowcharts, and workflow diagrams are producing forms of citizenship, political participation, and moral agency that contrast with the longstanding epistemologies of secrecy typical of local styles of knowledge and power. Donzelli’s long-term ethnographic study examines how these foreign protocols are being received, absorbed, and readapted in a peripheral community of the Indonesian archipelago. Combining a telescopic perspective on our contemporary moment with a microscopic analysis of conversational practices, the author argues that the managerial forms of political rationality and the entrepreneurial morality underwriting neoliberal apparatuses proliferate through the working of small cogs, that is, acts of speech. By examining these concrete communicative exchanges, she sheds light on both the coherence and inconsistency underlying the worldwide diffusion of market logic to all domains of life.
Author |
: Michael Pollan |
Publisher |
: Random House Trade Paperbacks |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2002-05-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780375760396 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0375760393 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Botany of Desire by : Michael Pollan
“Pollan shines a light on our own nature as well as on our implication in the natural world.” —The New York Times “A wry, informed pastoral.” —The New Yorker The book that helped make Michael Pollan, the New York Times bestselling author of How to Change Your Mind, Cooked and The Omnivore’s Dilemma, one of the most trusted food experts in America Every schoolchild learns about the mutually beneficial dance of honeybees and flowers: The bee collects nectar and pollen to make honey and, in the process, spreads the flowers’ genes far and wide. In The Botany of Desire, Michael Pollan ingeniously demonstrates how people and domesticated plants have formed a similarly reciprocal relationship. He masterfully links four fundamental human desires—sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control—with the plants that satisfy them: the apple, the tulip, marijuana, and the potato. In telling the stories of four familiar species, Pollan illustrates how the plants have evolved to satisfy humankind’s most basic yearnings. And just as we’ve benefited from these plants, we have also done well by them. So who is really domesticating whom?
Author |
: Andrew J. Owens |
Publisher |
: Indiana University Press |
Total Pages |
: 204 |
Release |
: 2021-03-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780253053848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0253053846 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desire After Dark by : Andrew J. Owens
Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality. In Desire After Dark, Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a normative world. Beginning with the global sexual revolutions of the '60s and moving decade by decade through "Euro-sleaze" cinema and theatrical hardcore pornography, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the popularity of New Age religions and witchcraft, and finally the increasingly explicit sexualization of American cable television, Owens contends that occult media has risen to prominence during the past 60 years as a way of exposing and working through cultural crises about queerness. Through the use of historiography and textual analyses of media from Bewitched to The Hunger, Owens reveals that the various players in occult media have always been well aware that non-normative sexuality constitutes the heart of horror's enduring appeal. By investigating vampirism, witchcraft, and other manifestations of the supernatural in media, Desire After Dark confirms how the queer has been integral to the evolution of the horror genre and its persistent popularity as both a subcultural and mainstream media form.
Author |
: Christine Darr |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 179 |
Release |
: 2022-12-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781978707061 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1978707061 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Production of Consumers and the Formation of Desire by : Christine Darr
We live in a society surrounded by stuff and bombarded with advertisements that try to convince us that shopping will improve our lives. Sometimes our lives do improve, yet our purchases are more often motivated by an impulse to satisfy immediate desires rather than reflective deliberation about how our purchasing choices enable us to live the lives we want. Christian moral reflection often criticizes this conundrum as “mindless consumerism,” arguing that it pulls Christians away from loving God above all things. While such critiques often encourage Christians to focus their desire on God rather than material goods, we might still wonder how we can exercise such control over our desires. By attending to desire itself ─ how it arises, how it is shaped by social context, and its role in cultivating a virtuous life ─ we can learn how to desire and then act in ways that are more consonant with our conception of what it means to live well. Within the Christian tradition, Thomas Aquinas offers a compelling model of human desire that, when juxtaposed with Pierre Bourdieu’s theory of social practices, can help us make more considered judgments about how to navigate the consumer society in which we live.
Author |
: Christopher G. Framarin |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 213 |
Release |
: 2009-03-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134043446 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134043449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Desire and Motivation in Indian Philosophy by : Christopher G. Framarin
This book advances an original interpretation of the orthodox Indian theories of motivation in light of the Indian prohibition on desire and evaluates its consequences for Indian ethics and soteriology.
Author |
: Thomas Baudinette |
Publisher |
: University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2021-11-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780472038619 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0472038613 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Regimes of Desire by : Thomas Baudinette
Explores the limitations of sexual expression in Tokyo's "safe" nightlife district and in Japanese media
Author |
: Yin-An Chen |
Publisher |
: Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages |
: 195 |
Release |
: 2022-09-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781725294929 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1725294923 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Toward a Micro-Political Theology by : Yin-An Chen
Has liberation theology reached a dead end? Has the time come to propose another strategy of political resistance, one that considers and takes account of the complexity of power relationships in daily life? How can we explore the deeper meaning of freedom and liberation? This book begins with a reflection on the "failure" of social movements and revolutions and a review of the methodologies of liberation theologies. Offering a brand-new micro-political theology, it attempts to demonstrate how Michel Foucault can help us recognize the limitations of our standard definitions of liberation. Continuing Foucault's critical engagement with desire, sexuality, and the body, this book opens a fresh dialogue between Althaus-Reid's indecent theology, Latin American liberation theology, and radical orthodoxy, leading to an exploration of how that dialogue can remind us that spirituality and the transformative practice of the self can themselves be fully political. It also urges prayer as both the radical root of political resistance and its action.
Author |
: Gabriel Tupinambá |
Publisher |
: Northwestern University Press |
Total Pages |
: 322 |
Release |
: 2021-02-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780810142831 |
ISBN-13 |
: 081014283X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Desire of Psychoanalysis by : Gabriel Tupinambá
The Desire of Psychoanalysis proposes that recognizing how certain theoretical and institutional problems in Lacanian psychoanalysis are grounded in the historical conditions of Lacan’s own thinking might allow us to overcome these impasses. In order to accomplish this, Gabriel Tupinambá analyzes the socioeconomic practices that underlie the current institutional existence of the Lacanian community—its political position as well as its institutional history—in relation to theoretical production. By focusing on the underlying dynamic that binds clinical practice, theoretical work, and institutional security in Lacanian psychoanalysis today, Tupinambá is able to locate sites for conceptual innovation that have been ignored by the discipline, such as the understanding of the role of money in clinical practice, the place of analysands in the transformation of psychoanalytic theory, and ideological dead-ends that have become common sense in the Lacanian field. The Desire of Psychoanalysis thus suggests ways of opening up psychoanalysis to new concepts and clinical practices and calls for a transformation of how psychoanalysis is understood as an institution.