Episode 5: Intercourse by Andrea Dworkin
Kink does not exist in a vacuum. In Deviations, hosted by Karada House, Apikoros and Barkas will discuss historical and contemporary texts that have shaped kink, sexuality, and our understandings of ourselves.
Each episode consists of a 120 minute unscripted conversation that is unscripted. It is not expected that the audience will have read the texts in advance. Each session is designed to summarize as well as discuss.
Apikoros and Barkas will be joined by Addie who will serve as moderators and direct questions from the audience.
Reading/viewing list:
Andrea Dworkin’s writings/works that were quoted:
My Life as a Writer
Woman Hating
Last Days of Hot Slit
Right Wing Woman
Quote from Dworkin’s Testimony before Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography, she argued that “”the Justice Department instruct law-enforcement agencies to keep records of the use of pornography in violent crimes” and impose “a ban on the possession and distribution of pornography in prisons”.
Article in The Guardian: Havanna Marking
Carol Pateman – The Sexual Contract
Contract and Contagion (AK Press – Author??)
Up next: Sexual Hegemony
Supreme Court Case: Affirms due process and right to privacy. Gideon v Wainwright 1963
Magnus Hirschfeld: sexuality and privacy (right to sexuality centred around a right to privacy) – divide between the rich and those without means to ‘own’ privacy
Stefan Zweig Die Welt von gestern
Robert Frost – The scholar lays our a grid and mows the field, and the poet runs through the field and lets things stick/grow
Entire comment here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrea_Dworkin#/media/File:Dworkin_on_After_Dark.JPG (This is one of the most famous images of Dworkin. The choice of what was circulated about her was super busted)
On the binary of consent:
Angela Mitropoulos
Joseph Fischell – Screw Consent
Contract and Contagion – author?
Douglas Rushkoff – Program or be Programmed
“The digital realm is biased toward choice, because everything must be expressed in the terms of a discrete yes-or-no, symbolic language. We must come to recognise the increased number of choices in our lives as largely a side effect of the digital; we always have the choice of making no choice at all.”
Reminds me of the kinds of sex scenes that Lydia Yuknavitch writes in Chronology of water (TW for sexual abuse)
Cruel Optimism – Lauren Berlant
dukeupress.edu/cruel-optimism
I haven’t read the Dworkin yet but from the sound of CH2, I would love to see an intellectual lovechild between her concepts there and Karen Barad’s views on touch: youtube.com/watch?v=u7LvXswjEBY&list=WL&index=75&t=925s
Jose Ortega y Gasset
