Sexuality and Form: Caravaggio, Marlowe, and BaconUniversity of Chicago Press, 2002 M12 15 - 219 pages This ambitious, wide-ranging study of sexuality, aesthetics, and epistemology covers everything from the aesthetics of war to the works of Caravaggio, Michaelangelo, Christopher Marlowe, and Francis Bacon, synthesizing queer theory and psychoanalysis and demonstrating the role of the body and the flesh as both a problem and a promise within the narrative arts. |
Contents
Introduction History and the Time of Sexuality | 1 |
A Poiesis of the Body | 5 |
History Theory and Sexuality | 13 |
Reading Bodies Recognition and the Violence of Form | 24 |
Posing and Judgment | 27 |
Logistics and the Fold | 40 |
History and the Flesh Caravaggios Queer Aesthetic | 63 |
Sublimation and Social Fantasy | 81 |
Sodomy and Exnomination | 112 |
On the Soul | 121 |
Sexuality at the Epochal Threshold Baconian Science and the Experience of History | 128 |
Jurisprudence Counterjurisprudence and the Baconian Body Politic | 139 |
The Body that Does Not Convert | 159 |
Conclusion Thinking Sexualities and Beyond | 169 |
Notes | 179 |
Bibliography | 203 |
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