Tag Archives: Lillian Russell

fashionable bodies: an enduring pursuit

Posted on March 10, 2013 by Dave

Venus de Milo: 37-26-38…Brigitte Bardot: 36-22-36…Twiggy: 30 1/2-24-33…no bodily alteration has been too excruciating… …Without going into the deeper motives of why certain human forms give us pleasure and others do not, Charles Darwin scoffed at Western man’s conceits. “If … Continue reading →

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shapes of things: comes a time

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Dave

Mythic shapes of things to come: circular and linear… Two equally grandiose, though radically contrary , visions of destiny and the future of humankind have in the past inspired, shaped, and controlled human life and thought. The older of the … Continue reading →

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PORTION GENEROSO: ORAL DESIRE A LA CARTE

Posted on September 21, 2010 by Dave

“Researching one of the seven deadly sins, gluttony, although food implies a consistent research into the bodily (taboos). To Nietzsche, largely responsible for rehabilitating the body in later humanistic thought, sinning is not a basic state of humanity, but merely … Continue reading →