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New Books Network
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 43:22


The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence. The book argues that the act of reading induces a representational instability that causes the referential function of language to collapse. This breakdown releases a type of "linguistic pain" (Scarry; Butler; Hamacher) that indicates a constitutive wounding of the reading body. The wound of language marks a rupture between linguistic reality and the phenomenal world. Exploring this rupture in various ways, the book brings together texts and genres from diverse traditions and offers close examinations of the rhetoric of masochism (Sacher-Masoch; Deleuze), the relation between reading and abuse (Nietzsche; Proust; Jelinek), the sublime experience of reading (Kant; Kafka; de Man), the "novel of the institution" (Musil; Campe), and literary suicide (Bachmann; Berryman; Okkervil River). Dominik Zechner is currently an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Caleb Zakarin is editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

New Books in Literary Studies
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

New Books in Literary Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 43:22


The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence. The book argues that the act of reading induces a representational instability that causes the referential function of language to collapse. This breakdown releases a type of "linguistic pain" (Scarry; Butler; Hamacher) that indicates a constitutive wounding of the reading body. The wound of language marks a rupture between linguistic reality and the phenomenal world. Exploring this rupture in various ways, the book brings together texts and genres from diverse traditions and offers close examinations of the rhetoric of masochism (Sacher-Masoch; Deleuze), the relation between reading and abuse (Nietzsche; Proust; Jelinek), the sublime experience of reading (Kant; Kafka; de Man), the "novel of the institution" (Musil; Campe), and literary suicide (Bachmann; Berryman; Okkervil River). Dominik Zechner is currently an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Caleb Zakarin is editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

New Books in German Studies
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

New Books in German Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 43:22


The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence. The book argues that the act of reading induces a representational instability that causes the referential function of language to collapse. This breakdown releases a type of "linguistic pain" (Scarry; Butler; Hamacher) that indicates a constitutive wounding of the reading body. The wound of language marks a rupture between linguistic reality and the phenomenal world. Exploring this rupture in various ways, the book brings together texts and genres from diverse traditions and offers close examinations of the rhetoric of masochism (Sacher-Masoch; Deleuze), the relation between reading and abuse (Nietzsche; Proust; Jelinek), the sublime experience of reading (Kant; Kafka; de Man), the "novel of the institution" (Musil; Campe), and literary suicide (Bachmann; Berryman; Okkervil River). Dominik Zechner is currently an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Caleb Zakarin is editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/german-studies

New Books in Critical Theory
Dominik Zechner, "The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024)

New Books in Critical Theory

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 20, 2025 43:22


The Violence of Reading: Literature and Philosophy at the Threshold of Pain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2024) expounds the scene of reading as one that produces an overwhelmed body exposed to uncontainable forms of violence. The book argues that the act of reading induces a representational instability that causes the referential function of language to collapse. This breakdown releases a type of "linguistic pain" (Scarry; Butler; Hamacher) that indicates a constitutive wounding of the reading body. The wound of language marks a rupture between linguistic reality and the phenomenal world. Exploring this rupture in various ways, the book brings together texts and genres from diverse traditions and offers close examinations of the rhetoric of masochism (Sacher-Masoch; Deleuze), the relation between reading and abuse (Nietzsche; Proust; Jelinek), the sublime experience of reading (Kant; Kafka; de Man), the "novel of the institution" (Musil; Campe), and literary suicide (Bachmann; Berryman; Okkervil River). Dominik Zechner is currently an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. Caleb Zakarin is editor of the New Books Network. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Invité culture
Catherine Sauvat écrit «Ils sont elles»: des autrices au pseudo masculin pour exister

Invité culture

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 3:37


De Madame de Lafayette, autrice de La Princesse de Clèves, à George Sand, à l'œuvre prolixe, en passant par les sœurs Brontë, autant de femmes qui ont dû se faire passer pour des hommes pour publier leurs écrits en échappant aux préjugés contre « la littérature de femmes ». Ces parcours d'autrices, près d'une quarantaine, sont retracés dans l'ouvrage de Catherine Sauvat : Ils sont elles, paru aux éditions Flammarion. À lire aussiLéopold von Sacher-Masoch, un homme attachant

Invité Culture
Catherine Sauvat écrit «Ils sont elles»: des autrices au pseudo masculin pour exister

Invité Culture

Play Episode Listen Later Aug 28, 2024 3:37


De Madame de Lafayette, autrice de La Princesse de Clèves, à George Sand, à l'œuvre prolixe, en passant par les sœurs Brontë, autant de femmes qui ont dû se faire passer pour des hommes pour publier leurs écrits en échappant aux préjugés contre « la littérature de femmes ». Ces parcours d'autrices, près d'une quarantaine, sont retracés dans l'ouvrage de Catherine Sauvat : Ils sont elles, paru aux éditions Flammarion. À lire aussiLéopold von Sacher-Masoch, un homme attachant

Acid Horizon
Gilles Deleuze and Saidiya Hartman: Race, Masochism, and Contract Theory with Taija Mars McDougall

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2024 67:32


Buy 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Buy 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Head to CRIT DRIP: https://www.etsy.com/shop/critdripTaija: @amalgam_screamsTaija Mars McDougall joins Acid Horizon to discuss her research on the applications of theories of masochism and the social contract as they relate to the obfuscation or misapprehension of forces at work under racial capitalism in the West. Figures in the discussion include Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Gilles Deleuze, Saidiya Hartman, Gary Fisher, Anthony Farley, and Frantz Fanon.Support the showSupport the podcast:https://www.acidhorizonpodcast.com/Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'Anti-Oculus: A Philosophy of Escape': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/anti-oculus-a-philosophy-of-escape/Order 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/

Literatur Radio Hörbahn
" Die Freude meines Lebens" – Gunna Wendt spricht mit Uwe Kullnick - Hörbahn on Stage

Literatur Radio Hörbahn

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 24, 2024 82:28


"Die Freude meines Lebens" – Gunna Wendt spricht mit Uwe Kullnick - Hörbahn on Stage Gunna Wendt Lesung (Hördauer ca. 28 min) Uwe Kullnick spricht mit Gunna Wendt (Hördauer ca. 56 min) Von Müttern und TöchternBeste Freundin oder Konkurrentin? Vertraute oder Fremde? Die Beziehung zwischen Müttern und Töchtern lässt sich nicht in einem Wort beschreiben. Gunna Wendt hat in diesem Buch die bewegendsten und schönsten Mutter-Tochter-Beziehungen zusammengestellt. Mit dabei sind u. a. Maria Callas und ihre überehrgeizige Mutter Evangelia, das bunte Dreiergespann Eva-Maria, Nina und Cosma Shiva Hagen und die tragisch kurze Beziehung zwischen Romy Schneider und Sarah Biasini. Ein Lesebuch über Liebe, Schmerz, Enttäuschung und große Hoffnungen – über mehrere Jahrhunderte hinweg bis heute. Ein ganz besonderes Geschenk für Mütter und Töchter: zum Muttertag, zu Weihnachten, für die beste Freundin oder für sich selbst.Mit Porträts vonEvangelia & Maria Callas + Emilie & Franziska zu Reventlow + Katia & Erika Mann + Eva-Maria, Nina & Cosma Shiva Hagen + Kathrin Ackermann & Maria Furtwängler + Gracia Patricia, Caroline & Stephanie + Romy Schneider & Sarah Biasini + Judy Garland & Liza Minnelli + Jane Birkin & Charlotte Gainsbourg + Liv & Linn Ullmann + Eva von Sacher-Masoch & Marianne Faithfull + Ingrid Bergman & Isabella Rossellini + Adele & Johanna Schopenhauer + Mary Wollstonecraft & Mary Shelley + Maria Theresia & Marie Antoinette Gunna Wendt: Geschichte trifft Literatur und Kunst: Die deutsche Schriftstellerin und Ausstellungsmacherin Gunna Wendt wurde 1953 in Jeinsen, Hannover geboren. Nach ihrem Soziologie- und Psychologie Studium in Hannover entschloss sie sich dazu Biographien zu schreiben, die sie immer in den historischen Kontext stellt. Sie hat außerdem als Regieassistentin und Dramaturgin in Theaterproduktionen gearbeitet. Zudem war sie Kuratorin sowie Publizistin und war im Rundfunk tätig. Gunna Wendt lebt seit 1981 in München. seit 1981 freie Schriftstellerin, Publizistin und Kuratorin in München.Lesungen, Vorträge und Moderationen zu kulturellen Themen, u.a. in München,Berlin, Bremen, Hamburg, Hannover, Leipzig, Bern, Wien, Zürich Wenn Ihnen dieser Beitrag gefallen hat, hören Sie doch auch einmal hier hinein oder vielleicht in diese Sendung Kommen Sie doch auch einfach mal zu unseren Live-Aufzeichnungen in Pixel  (Gasteig München) Redaktion und Realisation Uwe Kullnick --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hoerbahn/message

Letras en el tiempo
Los epónimos en la literatura

Letras en el tiempo

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 38:42


‘Los epónimos en la literatura'. Especial de Patricia del Río sobre aquellos personajes cuyos nombres quedaron inmortalizados en el lenguaje cotidiano como referentes por su forma de ver la vida. Por ejemplo, kafkiano deriva de Kafka y quiere decir insólito, extraño; maquiavélico de Maquiavelo y significa astuto, engañoso; sádico, del Marqués de Sade y designa al que disfruta del dolor ajeno. Revive este especial donde también conoceremos las historias de los médicos Georgius Papanicolaou y Gabriel Falopio, del empresario King Camp Gillette, del escritor Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, del irlandés Charles Cunningham Boycott, y Enola Gay, entre otros. La entrevista de la semana es a la escritora Julia Wong Kcomt, quien utilizando diversas técnicas narrativas presenta ‘11 palabras' (Cocodrilo Ediciones, 2023), libro de cuentos que reflexiona sobre la enfermedad. Las canciones elegidas son: ‘Libertango', Astor Piazzola ‘José Antonio', Jean Pierre Magnet ‘Óleo de mujer con sombrero', Silvio Rodríguez ‘Enola gay', Orchesral Manoeuvres in the dark ‘As tears go by', Marianne Faithfull ‘Poder', Papawa ‘Symphaty for the devil', The Rolling Stone

Letras en el tiempo
Los epónimos en la literatura

Letras en el tiempo

Play Episode Listen Later Oct 5, 2023 38:42


‘Los epónimos en la literatura'. Especial de Patricia del Río sobre aquellos personajes cuyos nombres quedaron inmortalizados en el lenguaje cotidiano como referentes por su forma de ver la vida. Por ejemplo, kafkiano deriva de Kafka y quiere decir insólito, extraño; maquiavélico de Maquiavelo y significa astuto, engañoso; sádico, del Marqués de Sade y designa al que disfruta del dolor ajeno. Revive este especial donde también conoceremos las historias de los médicos Georgius Papanicolaou y Gabriel Falopio, del empresario King Camp Gillette, del escritor Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, del irlandés Charles Cunningham Boycott, y Enola Gay, entre otros. La entrevista de la semana es a la escritora Julia Wong Kcomt, quien utilizando diversas técnicas narrativas presenta ‘11 palabras' (Cocodrilo Ediciones, 2023), libro de cuentos que reflexiona sobre la enfermedad. Las canciones elegidas son: ‘Libertango', Astor Piazzola ‘José Antonio', Jean Pierre Magnet ‘Óleo de mujer con sombrero', Silvio Rodríguez ‘Enola gay', Orchesral Manoeuvres in the dark ‘As tears go by', Marianne Faithfull ‘Poder', Papawa ‘Symphaty for the devil', The Rolling Stone

Psykoterapeuter pratar på
#28: Sadomasochism - mycket mer än sex

Psykoterapeuter pratar på

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 15, 2023 47:49


Vi har alla sadistiska och masochistiska sidor i vår personlighet. Vi pratar om vilka uttryck detta kan ta sig i både yttre och inre värld. Uppläsning: Jan Coster Inspelning, mix och vinjett av Anders Augustsson. Musik: Dom andra med Kent och Lift me up med Rihanna Bild: Bilder av Markis de Sade och Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

The Orgasmic Lifestyle Podcast by Venus O'Hara
Wild Monogamy. Cultivating erotic intimacy to keep passion and desire alive with Mali Apple and Joe Dunn.

The Orgasmic Lifestyle Podcast by Venus O'Hara

Play Episode Listen Later Jun 4, 2023 76:06


In this Strawberry Moon episode, we'll be discussing love and monogamy. I'll be interviewing Mali Apple and Joe Dunn, authors of ‘Wild Monogamy. Cultivating erotic intimacy to keep passion and desire alive.' We also review the book ‘Venus in Furs,' by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. The episode ends with a guided meditation with affirmations for love.

Acid Horizon
Bataille Contra Deleuze: Sadism and Masochism with Tiger Liu

Acid Horizon

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 21, 2023 68:45


"A sadist and a masochist walk into a podcast, the masochist says 'hurt me', the sadist says 'no'" Our laughter at such a scene conveys our habitual association between violence and possession, De Sade and Sacher-Masoch, or to take them in their 20th century philosophical champions: Georges Bataille and Gilles Deleuze. How are Sadism and Masochism problems not only of psychology, but logical problems of philosophy and the limits of reason? How does the economy of each relation to one's self and the other pose not only ethical, but political and ecological problems for thought today? Adam, Craig, and Noah are joined by researcher Tiger Liu, who recently finished a graduate dissertation on Masochism, psychoanalysis,  and General Economy to discuss the legacies of this conjecture, and the new lines of flight that can be revealed in light of Sacher-Masoch and his legacy.Support the podcast:Linktree: https://linktr.ee/acidhorizonAcid Horizon on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/acidhorizonpodcastZer0 Books and Repeater Media Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/zer0repeaterMerch: http://www.crit-drip.comOrder 'The Philosopher's Tarot': https://repeaterbooks.com/product/the-philosophers-tarot/Subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts: https://tinyurl.com/169wvvhiHappy Hour at Hippel's (Adam's blog): https://happyhourathippels.wordpress.com​Revolting Bodies (Will's Blog): https://revoltingbodies.com​Split Infinities (Craig's Substack): https://splitinfinities.substack.com/​Music: https://sereptie.bandcamp.com/ and https://thecominginsurrection.bandcamp.com/Support the show

Autant en emporte l'histoire
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, l'écrivain devenu symptôme

Autant en emporte l'histoire

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 15, 2023 55:52


durée : 00:55:52 - Autant en emporte l'Histoire - par : Stéphanie DUNCAN - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, un étonnant destin ! Cet écrivain autrichien de la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle fut célèbre de son vivant pour des contes et des pièces de théâtre plutôt sages. Avant que son nom, pour son plus grand malheur, ne se résume à celui d'une pratique sexuelle.

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection
Venus in Furs by Ritter von Leopold Sacher-Masoch

The Project Gutenberg Open Audiobook Collection

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2023 499:09


Venus in Furs

A History Of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs
Episode 164: “White Light/White Heat” by the Velvet Underground

A History Of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2023


Episode 164 of A History of Rock Music in Five Hundred Songs looks at "White Light/White Heat" and the career of the Velvet Underground. This is a long one, lasting three hours and twenty minutes. Click the full post to read liner notes, links to more information, and a transcript of the episode. Patreon backers also have a twenty-three minute bonus episode available, on "Why Don't You Smile Now?" by the Downliners Sect. Tilt Araiza has assisted invaluably by doing a first-pass edit, and will hopefully be doing so from now on. Check out Tilt's irregular podcasts at http://www.podnose.com/jaffa-cakes-for-proust and http://sitcomclub.com/ Errata I say the Velvet Underground didn't play New York for the rest of the sixties after 1966. They played at least one gig there in 1967, but did generally avoid the city. Also, I refer to Cale and Conrad as the other surviving members of the Theater of Eternal Music. Sadly Conrad died in 2016. Resources No Mixcloud this week, as there are too many songs by the Velvet Underground, and some of the avant-garde pieces excerpted run to six hours or more. I used a lot of resources for this one. Up-Tight: The Velvet Underground Story by Victor Bockris and Gerard Malanga is the best book on the group as a group. I also used Joe Harvard's 33 1/3 book on The Velvet Underground and Nico. Bockris also wrote one of the two biographies of Reed I referred to, Transformer. The other was Lou Reed by Anthony DeCurtis. Information on Cale mostly came from Sedition and Alchemy by Tim Mitchell. Information on Nico came from Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon by Richard Witts. I used Draw a Straight Line and Follow it by Jeremy Grimshaw as my main source for La Monte Young, The Roaring Silence by David Revill for John Cage, and Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik for Warhol. I also referred to the Criterion Collection Blu-Ray of the 2021 documentary The Velvet Underground.  The definitive collection of the Velvet Underground's music is the sadly out-of-print box set Peel Slowly and See, which contains the four albums the group made with Reed in full, plus demos, outtakes, and live recordings. Note that the digital version of the album as sold by Amazon for some reason doesn't include the last disc -- if you want the full box set you have to buy a physical copy. All four studio albums have also been released and rereleased many times over in different configurations with different numbers of CDs at different price points -- I have used the "45th Anniversary Super-Deluxe" versions for this episode, but for most people the standard CD versions will be fine. Sadly there are no good shorter compilation overviews of the group -- they tend to emphasise either the group's "pop" mode or its "avant-garde" mode to the exclusion of the other. Patreon This podcast is brought to you by the generosity of my backers on Patreon. Why not join them? Transcript Before I begin this episode, there are a few things to say. This introductory section is going to be longer than normal because, as you will hear, this episode is also going to be longer than normal. Firstly, I try to warn people about potentially upsetting material in these episodes. But this is the first episode for 1968, and as you will see there is a *profound* increase in the amount of upsetting and disturbing material covered as we go through 1968 and 1969. The story is going to be in a much darker place for the next twenty or thirty episodes. And this episode is no exception. As always, I try to deal with everything as sensitively as possible, but you should be aware that the list of warnings for this one is so long I am very likely to have missed some. Among the topics touched on in this episode are mental illness, drug addiction, gun violence, racism, societal and medical homophobia, medical mistreatment of mental illness, domestic abuse, rape, and more. If you find discussion of any of those subjects upsetting, you might want to read the transcript. Also, I use the term "queer" freely in this episode. In the past I have received some pushback for this, because of a belief among some that "queer" is a slur. The following explanation will seem redundant to many of my listeners, but as with many of the things I discuss in the podcast I am dealing with multiple different audiences with different levels of awareness and understanding of issues, so I'd like to beg those people's indulgence a moment. The term "queer" has certainly been used as a slur in the past, but so have terms like "lesbian", "gay", "homosexual" and others. In all those cases, the term has gone from a term used as a self-identifier, to a slur, to a reclaimed slur, and back again many times. The reason for using that word, specifically, here is because the vast majority of people in this story have sexualities or genders that don't match the societal norms of their times, but used labels for themselves that have shifted in meaning over the years. There are at least two men in the story, for example, who are now dead and referred to themselves as "homosexual", but were in multiple long-term sexually-active relationships with women. Would those men now refer to themselves as "bisexual" or "pansexual" -- terms not in widespread use at the time -- or would they, in the relatively more tolerant society we live in now, only have been in same-gender relationships? We can't know. But in our current context using the word "homosexual" for those men would lead to incorrect assumptions about their behaviour. The labels people use change over time, and the definitions of them blur and shift. I have discussed this issue with many, many, friends who fall under the queer umbrella, and while not all of them are comfortable with "queer" as a personal label because of how it's been used against them in the past, there is near-unanimity from them that it's the correct word to use in this situation. Anyway, now that that rather lengthy set of disclaimers is over, let's get into the story proper, as we look at "White Light, White Heat" by the Velvet Underground: [Excerpt: The Velvet Underground, "White Light, White Heat"] And that look will start with... a disclaimer about length. This episode is going to be a long one. Not as long as episode one hundred and fifty, but almost certainly the longest episode I'll do this year, by some way. And there's a reason for that. One of the questions I've been asked repeatedly over the years about the podcast is why almost all the acts I've covered have been extremely commercially successful ones. "Where are the underground bands? The alternative bands? The little niche acts?" The answer to that is simple. Until the mid-sixties, the idea of an underground or alternative band made no sense at all in rock, pop, rock and roll, R&B, or soul. The idea would have been completely counterintuitive to the vast majority of the people we've discussed in the podcast. Those musics were commercial musics, made by people who wanted to make money and to  get the largest audiences possible. That doesn't mean that they had no artistic merit, or that there was no artistic intent behind them, but the artists making that music were *commercial* artists. They knew if they wanted to make another record, they had to sell enough copies of the last record for the record company to make another, and that if they wanted to keep eating, they had to draw enough of an audience to their gigs for promoters to keep booking them. There was no space in this worldview for what we might think of as cult success. If your record only sold a thousand copies, then you had failed in your goal, even if the thousand people who bought your record really loved it. Even less commercially successful artists we've covered to this point, like the Mothers of Invention or Love, were *trying* for commercial success, even if they made the decision not to compromise as much as others do. This started to change a tiny bit in the mid-sixties as the influence of jazz and folk in the US, and the British blues scene, started to be felt in rock music. But this influence, at first, was a one-way thing -- people who had been in the folk and jazz worlds deciding to modify their music to be more commercial. And that was followed by already massively commercial musicians, like the Beatles, taking on some of those influences and bringing their audience with them. But that started to change around the time that "rock" started to differentiate itself from "rock and roll" and "pop", in mid 1967. So in this episode and the next, we're going to look at two bands who in different ways provided a model for how to be an alternative band. Both of them still *wanted* commercial success, but neither achieved it, at least not at first and not in the conventional way. And both, when they started out, went by the name The Warlocks. But we have to take a rather circuitous route to get to this week's band, because we're now properly introducing a strand of music that has been there in the background for a while -- avant-garde art music. So before we go any further, let's have a listen to a thirty-second clip of the most famous piece of avant-garde music ever, and I'll be performing it myself: [Excerpt, Andrew Hickey "4'33 (Cage)"] Obviously that won't give the full effect, you have to listen to the whole piece to get that. That is of course a section of "4'33" by John Cage, a piece of music that is often incorrectly described as being four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence. As I've mentioned before, though, in the episode on "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag", it isn't that at all. The whole point of the piece is that there is no such thing as silence, and it's intended to make the listener appreciate all the normal ambient sounds as music, every bit as much as any piece by Bach or Beethoven. John Cage, the composer of "4'33", is possibly the single most influential avant-garde artist of the mid twentieth century, so as we're properly introducing the ideas of avant-garde music into the story here, we need to talk about him a little. Cage was, from an early age, torn between three great vocations, all of which in some fashion would shape his work for decades to come. One of these was architecture, and for a time he intended to become an architect. Another was the religious ministry, and he very seriously considered becoming a minister as a young man, and religion -- though not the religious faith of his youth -- was to be a massive factor in his work as he grew older. He started studying music from an early age, though he never had any facility as a performer -- though he did, when he discovered the work of Grieg, think that might change. He later said “For a while I played nothing else. I even imagined devoting my life to the performance of his works alone, for they did not seem to me to be too difficult, and I loved them.” [Excerpt: Grieg piano concerto in A minor] But he soon realised that he didn't have some of the basic skills that would be required to be a performer -- he never actually thought of himself as very musical -- and so he decided to move into composition, and he later talked about putting his musical limits to good use in being more inventive. From his very first pieces, Cage was trying to expand the definition of what a performance of a piece of music actually was. One of his friends, Harry Hay, who took part in the first documented performance of a piece by Cage, described how Cage's father, an inventor, had "devised a fluorescent light source over which Sample" -- Don Sample, Cage's boyfriend at the time -- "laid a piece of vellum painted with designs in oils. The blankets I was wearing were white, and a sort of lampshade shone coloured patterns onto me. It looked very good. The thing got so hot the designs began to run, but that only made it better.” Apparently the audience for this light show -- one that predated the light shows used by rock bands by a good thirty years -- were not impressed, though that may be more because the Santa Monica Women's Club in the early 1930s was not the vanguard of the avant-garde. Or maybe it was. Certainly the housewives of Santa Monica seemed more willing than one might expect to sign up for another of Cage's ideas. In 1933 he went door to door asking women if they would be interested in signing up to a lecture course from him on modern art and music. He told them that if they signed up for $2.50, he would give them ten lectures, and somewhere between twenty and forty of them signed up, even though, as he said later, “I explained to the housewives that I didn't know anything about either subject but that I was enthusiastic about both of them. I promised to learn faithfully enough about each subject so as to be able to give a talk an hour long each week.” And he did just that, going to the library every day and spending all week preparing an hour-long talk for them. History does not relate whether he ended these lectures by telling the housewives to tell just one friend about them. He said later “I came out of these lectures, with a devotion to the painting of Mondrian, on the one hand, and the music of Schoenberg on the other.” [Excerpt: Schoenberg, "Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte"] Schoenberg was one of the two most widely-respected composers in the world at that point, the other being Stravinsky, but the two had very different attitudes to composition. Schoenberg's great innovation was the creation and popularisation of the twelve-tone technique, and I should probably explain that a little before I go any further. Most Western music is based on an eight-note scale -- do, re, mi, fa, so, la, ti, do -- with the eighth note being an octave up from the first. So in the key of C major that would be C, D, E, F, G, A, B, C: [demonstrates] And when you hear notes from that scale, if your ears are accustomed to basically any Western music written before about 1920, or any Western popular music written since then, you expect the melody to lead back to C, and you know to expect that because it only uses those notes -- there are differing intervals between them, some having a tone between them and some having a semitone, and you recognise the pattern. But of course there are other notes between the notes of that scale. There are actually an infinite number of these, but in conventional Western music we only look at a few more -- C# (or D flat), D# (or E flat), F# (or G flat), G# (or A flat) and A# (or B flat). If you add in all those notes you get this: [demonstrates] There's no clear beginning or end, no do for it to come back to. And Schoenberg's great innovation, which he was only starting to promote widely around this time, was to insist that all twelve notes should be equal -- his melodies would use all twelve of the notes the exact same number of times, and so if he used say a B flat, he would have to use all eleven other notes before he used B flat again in the piece. This was a radical new idea, but Schoenberg had only started advancing it after first winning great acclaim for earlier pieces, like his "Three Pieces for Piano", a work which wasn't properly twelve-tone, but did try to do without the idea of having any one note be more important than any other: [Excerpt: Schoenberg, "Three Pieces for Piano"] At this point, that work had only been performed in the US by one performer, Richard Buhlig, and hadn't been released as a recording yet. Cage was so eager to hear it that he'd found Buhlig's phone number and called him, asking him to play the piece, but Buhlig put the phone down on him. Now he was doing these lectures, though, he had to do one on Schoenberg, and he wasn't a competent enough pianist to play Schoenberg's pieces himself, and there were still no recordings of them. Cage hitch-hiked from Santa Monica to LA, where Buhlig lived, to try to get him to come and visit his class and play some of Schoenberg's pieces for them. Buhlig wasn't in, and Cage hung around in his garden hoping for him to come back -- he pulled the leaves off a bough from one of Buhlig's trees, going "He'll come back, he won't come back, he'll come back..." and the leaves said he'd be back. Buhlig arrived back at midnight, and quite understandably told the strange twenty-one-year-old who'd spent twelve hours in his garden pulling the leaves off his trees that no, he would not come to Santa Monica and give a free performance. But he did agree that if Cage brought some of his own compositions he'd give them a look over. Buhlig started giving Cage some proper lessons in composition, although he stressed that he was a performer, not a composer. Around this time Cage wrote his Sonata for Clarinet: [Excerpt: John Cage, "Sonata For Clarinet"] Buhlig suggested that Cage send that to Henry Cowell, the composer we heard about in the episode on "Good Vibrations" who was friends with Lev Termen and who created music by playing the strings inside a piano: [Excerpt: Henry Cowell, "Aeolian Harp and Sinister Resonance"] Cowell offered to take Cage on as an assistant, in return for which Cowell would teach him for a semester, as would Adolph Weiss, a pupil of Schoenberg's. But the goal, which Cowell suggested, was always to have Cage study with Schoenberg himself. Schoenberg at first refused, saying that Cage couldn't afford his price, but eventually took Cage on as a student having been assured that he would devote his entire life to music -- a promise Cage kept. Cage started writing pieces for percussion, something that had been very rare up to that point -- only a handful of composers, most notably Edgard Varese, had written pieces for percussion alone, but Cage was: [Excerpt: John Cage, "Trio"] This is often portrayed as a break from the ideals of his teacher Schoenberg, but in fact there's a clear continuity there, once you see what Cage was taking from Schoenberg. Schoenberg's work is, in some senses, about equality, about all notes being equal. Or to put it another way, it's about fairness. About erasing arbitrary distinctions. What Cage was doing was erasing the arbitrary distinction between the more and less prominent instruments. Why should there be pieces for solo violin or string quartet, but not for multiple percussion players? That said, Schoenberg was not exactly the most encouraging of teachers. When Cage invited Schoenberg to go to a concert of Cage's percussion work, Schoenberg told him he was busy that night. When Cage offered to arrange another concert for a date Schoenberg wasn't busy, the reply came "No, I will not be free at any time". Despite this, Cage later said “Schoenberg was a magnificent teacher, who always gave the impression that he was putting us in touch with musical principles,” and said "I literally worshipped him" -- a strong statement from someone who took religious matters as seriously as Cage. Cage was so devoted to Schoenberg's music that when a concert of music by Stravinsky was promoted as "music of the world's greatest living composer", Cage stormed into the promoter's office angrily, confronting the promoter and making it very clear that such things should not be said in the city where Schoenberg lived. Schoenberg clearly didn't think much of Cage's attempts at composition, thinking -- correctly -- that Cage had no ear for harmony. And his reportedly aggressive and confrontational teaching style didn't sit well with Cage -- though it seems very similar to a lot of the teaching techniques of the Zen masters he would later go on to respect. The two eventually parted ways, although Cage always spoke highly of Schoenberg. Schoenberg later gave Cage a compliment of sorts, when asked if any of his students had gone on to do anything interesting. At first he replied that none had, but then he mentioned Cage and said “Of course he's not a composer, but an inventor—of genius.” Cage was at this point very worried if there was any point to being a composer at all. He said later “I'd read Cowell's New Musical Resources and . . . The Theory of Rhythm. I had also read Chavez's Towards a New Music. Both works gave me the feeling that everything that was possible in music had already happened. So I thought I could never compose socially important music. Only if I could invent something new, then would I be useful to society. But that seemed unlikely then.” [Excerpt: John Cage, "Totem Ancestor"] Part of the solution came when he was asked to compose music for an abstract animation by the filmmaker Oskar Fischinger, and also to work as Fischinger's assistant when making the film. He was fascinated by the stop-motion process, and by the results of the film, which he described as "a beautiful film in which these squares, triangles and circles and other things moved and changed colour.” But more than that he was overwhelmed by a comment by Fischinger, who told him “Everything in the world has its own spirit, and this spirit becomes audible by setting it into vibration.” Cage later said “That set me on fire. He started me on a path of exploration of the world around me which has never stopped—of hitting and stretching and scraping and rubbing everything.” Cage now took his ideas further. His compositions for percussion had been about, if you like, giving the underdog a chance -- percussion was always in the background, why should it not be in the spotlight? Now he realised that there were other things getting excluded in conventional music -- the sounds that we characterise as noise. Why should composers work to exclude those sounds, but work to *include* other sounds? Surely that was... well, a little unfair? Eventually this would lead to pieces like his 1952 piece "Water Music", later expanded and retitled "Water Walk", which can be heard here in his 1959 appearance on the TV show "I've Got a Secret".  It's a piece for, amongst other things, a flowerpot full of flowers, a bathtub, a watering can, a pipe, a duck call, a blender full of ice cubes, and five unplugged radios: [Excerpt: John Cage "Water Walk"] As he was now avoiding pitch and harmony as organising principles for his music, he turned to time. But note -- not to rhythm. He said “There's none of this boom, boom, boom, business in my music . . . a measure is taken as a strict measure of time—not a one two three four—which I fill with various sounds.” He came up with a system he referred to as “micro-macrocosmic rhythmic structure,” what we would now call fractals, though that word hadn't yet been invented, where the structure of the whole piece was reflected in the smallest part of it. For a time he started moving away from the term music, preferring to refer to the "art of noise" or to "organised sound" -- though he later received a telegram from Edgard Varese, one of his musical heroes and one of the few other people writing works purely for percussion, asking him not to use that phrase, which Varese used for his own work. After meeting with Varese and his wife, he later became convinced that it was Varese's wife who had initiated the telegram, as she explained to Cage's wife "we didn't want your husband's work confused with my husband's work, any more than you'd want some . . . any artist's work confused with that of a cartoonist.” While there is a humour to Cage's work, I don't really hear much qualitative difference between a Cage piece like the one we just heard and a Varese piece like Ionisation: [Excerpt: Edgard Varese, "Ionisation"] But it was in 1952, the year of "Water Music" that John Cage made his two biggest impacts on the cultural world, though the full force of those impacts wasn't felt for some years. To understand Cage's 1952 work, you first have to understand that he had become heavily influenced by Zen, which at that time was very little known in the Western world. Indeed he had studied with Daisetsu Suzuki, who is credited with introducing Zen to the West, and said later “I didn't study music with just anybody; I studied with Schoenberg, I didn't study Zen with just anybody; I studied with Suzuki. I've always gone, insofar as I could, to the president of the company.” Cage's whole worldview was profoundly affected by Zen, but he was also naturally sympathetic to it, and his work after learning about Zen is mostly a continuation of trends we can already see. In particular, he became convinced that the point of music isn't to communicate anything between two people, rather its point is merely to be experienced. I'm far from an expert on Buddhism, but one way of thinking about its central lessons is that one should experience things as they are, experiencing the thing itself rather than one's thoughts or preconceptions about it. And so at Black Mountain college came Theatre Piece Number 1: [Excerpt: Edith Piaf, "La Vie En Rose" ] In this piece, Cage had set the audience on all sides, so they'd be facing each other. He stood on a stepladder, as colleagues danced in and around the audience, another colleague played the piano, two more took turns to stand on another stepladder to recite poetry, different films and slides were projected, seemingly at random, onto the walls, and the painter Robert Rauschenberg played scratchy Edith Piaf records on a wind-up gramophone. The audience were included in the performance, and it was meant to be experienced as a gestalt, as a whole, to be what we would now call an immersive experience. One of Cage's students around this time was the artist Allan Kaprow, and he would be inspired by Theatre Piece Number 1 to put on several similar events in the late fifties. Those events he called "happenings", because the point of them was that you were meant to experience an event as it was happening rather than bring preconceptions of form and structure to them. Those happenings were the inspiration for events like The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, and the term "happening" became such an integral part of the counterculture that by 1967 there were comedy films being released about them, including one just called The Happening with a title track by the Supremes that made number one: [Excerpt: The Supremes, "The Happening"] Theatre Piece Number 1 was retrospectively considered the first happening, and as such its influence is incalculable. But one part I didn't mention about Theatre Piece Number 1 is that as well as Rauschenberg playing Edith Piaf's records, he also displayed some of his paintings. These paintings were totally white -- at a glance, they looked like blank canvases, but as one inspected them more clearly, it became apparent that Rauschenberg had painted them with white paint, with visible brushstrokes. These paintings, along with a visit to an anechoic chamber in which Cage discovered that even in total silence one can still hear one's own blood and nervous system, so will never experience total silence, were the final key to something Cage had been working towards -- if music had minimised percussion, and excluded noise, how much more had it excluded silence? As Cage said in 1958 “Curiously enough, the twelve-tone system has no zero in it.” And so came 4'33, the piece that we heard an excerpt of near the start of this episode. That piece was the something new he'd been looking for that could be useful to society. It took the sounds the audience could already hear, and without changing them even slightly gave them a new context and made the audience hear them as they were. Simply by saying "this is music", it caused the ambient noise to be perceived as music. This idea, of recontextualising existing material, was one that had already been done in the art world -- Marcel Duchamp, in 1917, had exhibited a urinal as a sculpture titled "Fountain" -- but even Duchamp had talked about his work as "everyday objects raised to the dignity of a work of art by the artist's act of choice". The artist was *raising* the object to art. What Cage was saying was "the object is already art". This was all massively influential to a young painter who had seen Cage give lectures many times, and while at art school had with friends prepared a piano in the same way Cage did for his own experimental compositions, dampening the strings with different objects. [Excerpt: Dana Gillespie, "Andy Warhol (live)"] Duchamp and Rauschenberg were both big influences on Andy Warhol, but he would say in the early sixties "John Cage is really so responsible for so much that's going on," and would for the rest of his life cite Cage as one of the two or three prime influences of his career. Warhol is a difficult figure to discuss, because his work is very intellectual but he was not very articulate -- which is one reason I've led up to him by discussing Cage in such detail, because Cage was always eager to talk at great length about the theoretical basis of his work, while Warhol would say very few words about anything at all. Probably the person who knew him best was his business partner and collaborator Paul Morrissey, and Morrissey's descriptions of Warhol have shaped my own view of his life, but it's very worth noting that Morrissey is an extremely right-wing moralist who wishes to see a Catholic theocracy imposed to do away with the scourges of sexual immorality, drug use, hedonism, and liberalism, so his view of Warhol, a queer drug using progressive whose worldview seems to have been totally opposed to Morrissey's in every way, might be a little distorted. Warhol came from an impoverished background, and so, as many people who grew up poor do, he was, throughout his life, very eager to make money. He studied art at university, and got decent but not exceptional grades -- he was a competent draughtsman, but not a great one, and most importantly as far as success in the art world goes he didn't have what is known as his own "line" -- with most successful artists, you can look at a handful of lines they've drawn and see something of their own personality in it. You couldn't with Warhol. His drawings looked like mediocre imitations of other people's work. Perfectly competent, but nothing that stood out. So Warhol came up with a technique to make his drawings stand out -- blotting. He would do a normal drawing, then go over it with a lot of wet ink. He'd lower a piece of paper on to the wet drawing, and the new paper would soak up the ink, and that second piece of paper would become the finished work. The lines would be fractured and smeared, broken in places where the ink didn't get picked up, and thick in others where it had pooled. With this mechanical process, Warhol had managed to create an individual style, and he became an extremely successful commercial artist. In the early 1950s photography was still seen as a somewhat low-class way of advertising things. If you wanted to sell to a rich audience, you needed to use drawings or paintings. By 1955 Warhol was making about twelve thousand dollars a year -- somewhere close to a hundred and thirty thousand a year in today's money -- drawing shoes for advertisements. He also had a sideline in doing record covers for people like Count Basie: [Excerpt: Count Basie, "Seventh Avenue Express"] For most of the 1950s he also tried to put on shows of his more serious artistic work -- often with homoerotic themes -- but to little success. The dominant art style of the time was the abstract expressionism of people like Jackson Pollock, whose art was visceral, emotional, and macho. The term "action paintings" which was coined for the work of people like Pollock, sums it up. This was manly art for manly men having manly emotions and expressing them loudly. It was very male and very straight, and even the gay artists who were prominent at the time tended to be very conformist and look down on anything they considered flamboyant or effeminate. Warhol was a rather effeminate, very reserved man, who strongly disliked showing his emotions, and whose tastes ran firmly to the camp. Camp as an aesthetic of finding joy in the flamboyant or trashy, as opposed to merely a descriptive term for men who behaved in a way considered effeminate, was only just starting to be codified at this time -- it wouldn't really become a fully-formed recognisable thing until Susan Sontag's essay "Notes on Camp" in 1964 -- but of course just because something hasn't been recognised doesn't mean it doesn't exist, and Warhol's aesthetic was always very camp, and in the 1950s in the US that was frowned upon even in gay culture, where the mainstream opinion was that the best way to acceptance was through assimilation. Abstract expressionism was all about expressing the self, and that was something Warhol never wanted to do -- in fact he made some pronouncements at times which suggested he didn't think of himself as *having* a self in the conventional sense. The combination of not wanting to express himself and of wanting to work more efficiently as a commercial artist led to some interesting results. For example, he was commissioned in 1957 to do a cover for an album by Moondog, the blind street musician whose name Alan Freed had once stolen: [Excerpt: Moondog, "Gloving It"] For that cover, Warhol got his mother, Julia Warhola, to just write out the liner notes for the album in her rather ornamental cursive script, and that became the front cover, leading to an award for graphic design going that year to "Andy Warhol's mother". (Incidentally, my copy of the current CD issue of that album, complete with Julia Warhola's cover, is put out by Pickwick Records...) But towards the end of the fifties, the work for commercial artists started to dry up. If you wanted to advertise shoes, now, you just took a photo of the shoes rather than get Andy Warhol to draw a picture of them. The money started to disappear, and Warhol started to panic. If there was no room for him in graphic design any more, he had to make his living in the fine arts, which he'd been totally unsuccessful in. But luckily for Warhol, there was a new movement that was starting to form -- Pop Art. Pop Art started in England, and had originally been intended, at least in part, as a critique of American consumerist capitalism. Pieces like "Just what is it that makes today's homes so different, so appealing?" by Richard Hamilton (who went on to design the Beatles' White Album cover) are collages of found images, almost all from American sources, recontextualised and juxtaposed in interesting ways, so a bodybuilder poses in a room that's taken from an advert in Ladies' Home Journal, while on the wall, instead of a painting, hangs a blown-up cover of a Jack Kirby romance comic. Pop Art changed slightly when it got taken up in America, and there it became something rather different, something closer to Duchamp, taking those found images and displaying them as art with no juxtaposition. Where Richard Hamilton created collage art which *showed* a comic cover by Jack Kirby as a painting in the background, Roy Lichtenstein would take a panel of comic art by Kirby, or Russ Heath or Irv Novick or a dozen other comic artists, and redraw it at the size of a normal painting. So Warhol took Cage's idea that the object is already art, and brought that into painting, starting by doing paintings of Campbell's soup cans, in which he tried as far as possible to make the cans look exactly like actual soup cans. The paintings were controversial, inciting fury in some and laughter in others and causing almost everyone to question whether they were art. Warhol would embrace an aesthetic in which things considered unimportant or trash or pop culture detritus were the greatest art of all. For example pretty much every profile of him written in the mid sixties talks about him obsessively playing "Sally Go Round the Roses", a girl-group single by the one-hit wonders the Jaynettes: [Excerpt: The Jaynettes, "Sally Go Round the Roses"] After his paintings of Campbell's soup cans, and some rather controversial but less commercially successful paintings of photographs of horrors and catastrophes taken from newspapers, Warhol abandoned painting in the conventional sense altogether, instead creating brightly coloured screen prints -- a form of stencilling -- based on photographs of celebrities like Elvis Presley, Elizabeth Taylor and, most famously, Marilyn Monroe. That way he could produce images which could be mass-produced, without his active involvement, and which supposedly had none of his personality in them, though of course his personality pervades the work anyway. He put on exhibitions of wooden boxes, silk-screen printed to look exactly like shipping cartons of Brillo pads. Images we see everywhere -- in newspapers, in supermarkets -- were art. And Warhol even briefly formed a band. The Druds were a garage band formed to play at a show at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, the opening night of an exhibition that featured a silkscreen by Warhol of 210 identical bottles of Coca-Cola, as well as paintings by Rauschenberg and others. That opening night featured a happening by Claes Oldenburg, and a performance by Cage -- Cage gave a live lecture while three recordings of his own voice also played. The Druds were also meant to perform, but they fell apart after only a few rehearsals. Some recordings apparently exist, but they don't seem to circulate, but they'd be fascinating to hear as almost the entire band were non-musician artists like Warhol, Jasper Johns, and the sculptor Walter de Maria. Warhol said of the group “It didn't go too well, but if we had just stayed on it it would have been great.” On the other hand, the one actual musician in the group said “It was kind of ridiculous, so I quit after the second rehearsal". That musician was La Monte Young: [Excerpt: La Monte Young, "The Well-Tuned Piano"] That's an excerpt from what is generally considered Young's masterwork, "The Well-Tuned Piano". It's six and a half hours long. If Warhol is a difficult figure to write about, Young is almost impossible. He's a musician with a career stretching sixty years, who is arguably the most influential musician from the classical tradition in that time period. He's generally considered the father of minimalism, and he's also been called by Brian Eno "the daddy of us all" -- without Young you simply *do not* get art rock at all. Without Young there is no Velvet Underground, no David Bowie, no Eno, no New York punk scene, no Yoko Ono. Anywhere that the fine arts or conceptual art have intersected with popular music in the last fifty or more years has been influenced in one way or another by Young's work. BUT... he only rarely publishes his scores. He very, very rarely allows recordings of his work to be released -- there are four recordings on his bandcamp, plus a handful of recordings of his older, published, pieces, and very little else. He doesn't allow his music to be performed live without his supervision. There *are* bootleg recordings of his music, but even those are not easily obtainable -- Young is vigorous in enforcing his copyrights and issues takedown notices against anywhere that hosts them. So other than that handful of legitimately available recordings -- plus a recording by Young's Theater of Eternal Music, the legality of which is still disputed, and an off-air recording of a 1971 radio programme I've managed to track down, the only way to experience Young's music unless you're willing to travel to one of his rare live performances or installations is second-hand, by reading about it. Except that the one book that deals solely with Young and his music is not only a dense and difficult book to read, it's also one that Young vehemently disagreed with and considered extremely inaccurate, to the point he refused to allow permissions to quote his work in the book. Young did apparently prepare a list of corrections for the book, but he wouldn't tell the author what they were without payment. So please assume that anything I say about Young is wrong, but also accept that the short section of this episode about Young has required more work to *try* to get it right than pretty much anything else this year. Young's musical career actually started out in a relatively straightforward manner. He didn't grow up in the most loving of homes -- he's talked about his father beating him as a child because he had been told that young La Monte was clever -- but his father did buy him a saxophone and teach him the rudiments of the instrument, and as a child he was most influenced by the music of the big band saxophone player Jimmy Dorsey: [Excerpt: Jimmy Dorsey, “It's the Dreamer in Me”] The family, who were Mormon farmers, relocated several times in Young's childhood, from Idaho first to California and then to Utah, but everywhere they went La Monte seemed to find musical inspiration, whether from an uncle who had been part of the Kansas City jazz scene, a classmate who was a musical prodigy who had played with Perez Prado in his early teens, or a teacher who took the class to see a performance of Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra: [Excerpt: Bartok, "Concerto for Orchestra"] After leaving high school, Young went to Los Angeles City College to study music under Leonard Stein, who had been Schoenberg's assistant when Schoenberg had taught at UCLA, and there he became part of the thriving jazz scene based around Central Avenue, studying and performing with musicians like Ornette Coleman, Don Cherry, and Eric Dolphy -- Young once beat Dolphy in an audition for a place in the City College dance band, and the two would apparently substitute for each other on their regular gigs when one couldn't make it. During this time, Young's musical tastes became much more adventurous. He was a particular fan of the work of John Coltrane, and also got inspired by City of Glass, an album by Stan Kenton that attempted to combine jazz and modern classical music: [Excerpt: Stan Kenton's Innovations Orchestra, "City of Glass: The Structures"] His other major musical discovery in the mid-fifties was one we've talked about on several previous occasions -- the album Music of India, Morning and Evening Ragas by Ali Akhbar Khan: [Excerpt: Ali Akhbar Khan, "Rag Sindhi Bhairavi"] Young's music at this point was becoming increasingly modal, and equally influenced by the blues and Indian music. But he was also becoming interested in serialism. Serialism is an extension and generalisation of twelve-tone music, inspired by mathematical set theory. In serialism, you choose a set of musical elements -- in twelve-tone music that's the twelve notes in the twelve-tone scale, but it can also be a set of tonal relations, a chord, or any other set of elements. You then define all the possible ways you can permute those elements, a defined set of operations you can perform on them -- so you could play a scale forwards, play it backwards, play all the notes in the scale simultaneously, and so on. You then go through all the possible permutations, exactly once, and that's your piece of music. Young was particularly influenced by the works of Anton Webern, one of the earliest serialists: [Excerpt: Anton Webern, "Cantata number 1 for Soprano, Mixed Chorus, and Orchestra"] That piece we just heard, Webern's "Cantata number 1", was the subject of some of the earliest theoretical discussion of serialism, and in particular led to some discussion of the next step on from serialism. If serialism was all about going through every single permutation of a set, what if you *didn't* permute every element? There was a lot of discussion in the late fifties in music-theoretical circles about the idea of invariance. Normally in music, the interesting thing is what gets changed. To use a very simple example, you might change a melody from a major key to a minor one to make it sound sadder. What theorists at this point were starting to discuss is what happens if you leave something the same, but change the surrounding context, so the thing you *don't* vary sounds different because of the changed context. And going further, what if you don't change the context at all, and merely *imply* a changed context? These ideas were some of those which inspired Young's first major work, his Trio For Strings from 1958, a complex, palindromic, serial piece which is now credited as the first work of minimalism, because the notes in it change so infrequently: [Excerpt: La Monte Young, "Trio for Strings"] Though I should point out that Young never considers his works truly finished, and constantly rewrites them, and what we just heard is an excerpt from the only recording of the trio ever officially released, which is of the 2015 version. So I can't state for certain how close what we just heard is to the piece he wrote in 1958, except that it sounds very like the written descriptions of it I've read. After writing the Trio For Strings, Young moved to Germany to study with the modernist composer Karlheinz Stockhausen. While studying with Stockhausen, he became interested in the work of John Cage, and started up a correspondence with Cage. On his return to New York he studied with Cage and started writing pieces inspired by Cage, of which the most musical is probably Composition 1960 #7: [Excerpt: La Monte Young, "Composition 1960 #7"] The score for that piece is a stave on which is drawn a treble clef, the notes B and F#, and the words "To be held for a long Time". Other of his compositions from 1960 -- which are among the few of his compositions which have been published -- include composition 1960 #10 ("To Bob Morris"), the score for which is just the instruction "Draw a straight line and follow it.", and Piano Piece for David  Tudor #1, the score for which reads "Bring a bale of hay and a bucket of water onto the stage for the piano to eat and drink. The performer may then feed the piano or leave it to eat by itself. If the former, the piece is over after the piano has been fed. If the latter, it is over after the piano eats or decides not to". Most of these compositions were performed as part of a loose New York art collective called Fluxus, all of whom were influenced by Cage and the Dadaists. This collective, led by George Maciunas, sometimes involved Cage himself, but also involved people like Henry Flynt, the inventor of conceptual art, who later became a campaigner against art itself, and who also much to Young's bemusement abandoned abstract music in the mid-sixties to form a garage band with Walter de Maria (who had played drums with the Druds): [Excerpt: Henry Flynt and the Insurrections, "I Don't Wanna"] Much of Young's work was performed at Fluxus concerts given in a New York loft belonging to another member of the collective, Yoko Ono, who co-curated the concerts with Young. One of Ono's mid-sixties pieces, her "Four Pieces for Orchestra" is dedicated to Young, and consists of such instructions as "Count all the stars of that night by heart. The piece ends when all the orchestra members finish counting the stars, or when it dawns. This can be done with windows instead of stars." But while these conceptual ideas remained a huge part of Young's thinking, he soon became interested in two other ideas. The first was the idea of just intonation -- tuning instruments and voices to perfect harmonics, rather than using the subtly-off tuning that is used in Western music. I'm sure I've explained that before in a previous episode, but to put it simply when you're tuning an instrument with fixed pitches like a piano, you have a choice -- you can either tune it so that the notes in one key are perfectly in tune with each other, but then when you change key things go very out of tune, or you can choose to make *everything* a tiny bit, almost unnoticeably, out of tune, but equally so. For the last several hundred years, musicians as a community have chosen the latter course, which was among other things promoted by Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier, a collection of compositions which shows how the different keys work together: [Excerpt: Bach (Glenn Gould), "The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II: Fugue in F-sharp minor, BWV 883"] Young, by contrast, has his own esoteric tuning system, which he uses in his own work The Well-Tuned Piano: [Excerpt: La Monte Young, "The Well-Tuned Piano"] The other idea that Young took on was from Indian music, the idea of the drone. One of the four recordings of Young's music that is available from his Bandcamp, a 1982 recording titled The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath, consists of one hour, thirteen minutes, and fifty-eight seconds of this: [Excerpt: La Monte Young, "The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath"] Yes, I have listened to the whole piece. No, nothing else happens. The minimalist composer Terry Riley describes the recording as "a singularly rare contribution that far outshines any other attempts to capture this instrument in recorded media". In 1962, Young started writing pieces based on what he called the "dream chord", a chord consisting of a root, fourth, sharpened fourth, and fifth: [dream chord] That chord had already appeared in his Trio for Strings, but now it would become the focus of much of his work, in pieces like his 1962 piece The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, heard here in a 1982 revision: [Excerpt: La Monte Young, "The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer"] That was part of a series of works titled The Four Dreams of China, and Young began to plan an installation work titled Dream House, which would eventually be created, and which currently exists in Tribeca, New York, where it's been in continuous "performance" for thirty years -- and which consists of thirty-two different pure sine wave tones all played continuously, plus purple lighting by Young's wife Marian Zazeela. But as an initial step towards creating this, Young formed a collective called Theatre of Eternal Music, which some of the members -- though never Young himself -- always claim also went by the alternative name The Dream Syndicate. According to John Cale, a member of the group, that name came about because the group tuned their instruments to the 60hz hum of the fridge in Young's apartment, which Cale called "the key of Western civilisation". According to Cale, that meant the fundamental of the chords they played was 10hz, the frequency of alpha waves when dreaming -- hence the name. The group initially consisted of Young, Zazeela, the photographer Billy Name, and percussionist Angus MacLise, but by this recording in 1964 the lineup was Young, Zazeela, MacLise, Tony Conrad and John Cale: [Excerpt: "Cale, Conrad, Maclise, Young, Zazeela - The Dream Syndicate 2 IV 64-4"] That recording, like any others that have leaked by the 1960s version of the Theatre of Eternal Music or Dream Syndicate, is of disputed legality, because Young and Zazeela claim to this day that what the group performed were La Monte Young's compositions, while the other two surviving members, Cale and Conrad, claim that their performances were improvisational collaborations and should be equally credited to all the members, and so there have been lawsuits and countersuits any time anyone has released the recordings. John Cale, the youngest member of the group, was also the only one who wasn't American. He'd been born in Wales in 1942, and had had the kind of childhood that, in retrospect, seems guaranteed to lead to eccentricity. He was the product of a mixed-language marriage -- his father, William, was an English speaker while his mother, Margaret, spoke Welsh, but the couple had moved in on their marriage with Margaret's mother, who insisted that only Welsh could be spoken in her house. William didn't speak Welsh, and while he eventually picked up the basics from spending all his life surrounded by Welsh-speakers, he refused on principle to capitulate to his mother-in-law, and so remained silent in the house. John, meanwhile, grew up a monolingual Welsh speaker, and didn't start to learn English until he went to school when he was seven, and so couldn't speak to his father until then even though they lived together. Young John was extremely unwell for most of his childhood, both physically -- he had bronchial problems for which he had to take a cough mixture that was largely opium to help him sleep at night -- and mentally. He was hospitalised when he was sixteen with what was at first thought to be meningitis, but turned out to be a psychosomatic condition, the result of what he has described as a nervous breakdown. That breakdown is probably connected to the fact that during his teenage years he was sexually assaulted by two adults in positions of authority -- a vicar and a music teacher -- and felt unable to talk to anyone about this. He was, though, a child prodigy and was playing viola with the National Youth Orchestra of Wales from the age of thirteen, and listening to music by Schoenberg, Webern, and Stravinsky. He was so talented a multi-instrumentalist that at school he was the only person other than one of the music teachers and the headmaster who was allowed to use the piano -- which led to a prank on his very last day at school. The headmaster would, on the last day, hit a low G on the piano to cue the assembly to stand up, and Cale had placed a comb on the string, muting it and stopping the note from sounding -- in much the same way that his near-namesake John Cage was "preparing" pianos for his own compositions in the USA. Cale went on to Goldsmith's College to study music and composition, under Humphrey Searle, one of Britain's greatest proponents of serialism who had himself studied under Webern. Cale's main instrument was the viola, but he insisted on also playing pieces written for the violin, because they required more technical skill. For his final exam he chose to play Hindemith's notoriously difficult Viola Sonata: [Excerpt: Hindemith Viola Sonata] While at Goldsmith's, Cale became friendly with Cornelius Cardew, a composer and cellist who had studied with Stockhausen and at the time was a great admirer of and advocate for the works of Cage and Young (though by the mid-seventies Cardew rejected their work as counter-revolutionary bourgeois imperialism). Through Cardew, Cale started to correspond with Cage, and with George Maciunas and other members of Fluxus. In July 1963, just after he'd finished his studies at Goldsmith's, Cale presented a festival there consisting of an afternoon and an evening show. These shows included the first British performances of several works including Cardew's Autumn '60 for Orchestra -- a piece in which the musicians were given blank staves on which to write whatever part they wanted to play, but a separate set of instructions in *how* to play the parts they'd written. Another piece Cale presented in its British premiere at that show was Cage's "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra": [Excerpt: John Cage, "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra"] In the evening show, they performed Two Pieces For String Quartet by George Brecht (in which the musicians polish their instruments with dusters, making scraping sounds as they clean them),  and two new pieces by Cale, one of which involved a plant being put on the stage, and then the performer, Robin Page, screaming from the balcony at the plant that it would die, then running down, through the audience, and onto the stage, screaming abuse and threats at the plant. The final piece in the show was a performance by Cale (the first one in Britain) of La Monte Young's "X For Henry Flynt". For this piece, Cale put his hands together and then smashed both his arms onto the keyboard as hard as he could, over and over. After five minutes some of the audience stormed the stage and tried to drag the piano away from him. Cale followed the piano on his knees, continuing to bang the keys, and eventually the audience gave up in defeat and Cale the performer won. After this Cale moved to the USA, to further study composition, this time with Iannis Xenakis, the modernist composer who had also taught Mickey Baker orchestration after Baker left Mickey and Sylvia, and who composed such works as "Orient Occident": [Excerpt: Iannis Xenakis, "Orient Occident"] Cale had been recommended to Xenakis as a student by Aaron Copland, who thought the young man was probably a genius. But Cale's musical ambitions were rather too great for Tanglewood, Massachusetts -- he discovered that the institute had eighty-eight pianos, the same number as there are keys on a piano keyboard, and thought it would be great if for a piece he could take all eighty-eight pianos, put them all on different boats, sail the boats out onto a lake, and have eighty-eight different musicians each play one note on each piano, while the boats sank with the pianos on board. For some reason, Cale wasn't allowed to perform this composition, and instead had to make do with one where he pulled an axe out of a single piano and slammed it down on a table. Hardly the same, I'm sure you'll agree. From Tanglewood, Cale moved on to New York, where he soon became part of the artistic circles surrounding John Cage and La Monte Young. It was at this time that he joined Young's Theatre of Eternal Music, and also took part in a performance with Cage that would get Cale his first television exposure: [Excerpt: John Cale playing Erik Satie's "Vexations" on "I've Got a Secret"] That's Cale playing through "Vexations", a piece by Erik Satie that wasn't published until after Satie's death, and that remained in obscurity until Cage popularised -- if that's the word -- the piece. The piece, which Cage had found while studying Satie's notes, seems to be written as an exercise and has the inscription (in French) "In order to play the motif 840 times in succession, it would be advisable to prepare oneself beforehand, and in the deepest silence, by serious immobilities." Cage interpreted that, possibly correctly, as an instruction that the piece should be played eight hundred and forty times straight through, and so he put together a performance of the piece, the first one ever, by a group he called the Pocket Theatre Piano Relay Team, which included Cage himself, Cale, Joshua Rifkin, and several other notable musical figures, who took it in turns playing the piece. For that performance, which ended up lasting eighteen hours, there was an entry fee of five dollars, and there was a time-clock in the lobby. Audience members punched in and punched out, and got a refund of five cents for every twenty minutes they'd spent listening to the music. Supposedly, at the end, one audience member yelled "Encore!" A week later, Cale appeared on "I've Got a Secret", a popular game-show in which celebrities tried to guess people's secrets (and which is where that performance of Cage's "Water Walk" we heard earlier comes from): [Excerpt: John Cale on I've Got a Secret] For a while, Cale lived with a friend of La Monte Young's, Terry Jennings, before moving in to a flat with Tony Conrad, one of the other members of the Theatre of Eternal Music. Angus MacLise lived in another flat in the same building. As there was not much money to be made in avant-garde music, Cale also worked in a bookshop -- a job Cage had found him -- and had a sideline in dealing drugs. But rents were so cheap at this time that Cale and Conrad only had to work part-time, and could spend much of their time working on the music they were making with Young. Both were string players -- Conrad violin, Cale viola -- and they soon modified their instruments. Conrad merely attached pickups to his so it could be amplified, but Cale went much further. He filed down the viola's bridge so he could play three strings at once, and he replaced the normal viola strings with thicker, heavier, guitar and mandolin strings. This created a sound so loud that it sounded like a distorted electric guitar -- though in late 1963 and early 1964 there were very few people who even knew what a distorted guitar sounded like. Cale and Conrad were also starting to become interested in rock and roll music, to which neither of them had previously paid much attention, because John Cage's music had taught them to listen for music in sounds they previously dismissed. In particular, Cale became fascinated with the harmonies of the Everly Brothers, hearing in them the same just intonation that Young advocated for: [Excerpt: The Everly Brothers, "All I Have to Do is Dream"] And it was with this newfound interest in rock and roll that Cale and Conrad suddenly found themselves members of a manufactured pop band. The two men had been invited to a party on the Lower East Side, and there they'd been introduced to Terry Phillips of Pickwick Records. Phillips had seen their long hair and asked if they were musicians, so they'd answered "yes". He asked if they were in a band, and they said yes. He asked if that band had a drummer, and again they said yes. By this point they realised that he had assumed they were rock guitarists, rather than experimental avant-garde string players, but they decided to play along and see where this was going. Phillips told them that if they brought along their drummer to Pickwick's studios the next day, he had a job for them. The two of them went along with Walter de Maria, who did play the drums a little in between his conceptual art work, and there they were played a record: [Excerpt: The Primitives, "The Ostrich"] It was explained to them that Pickwick made knock-off records -- soundalikes of big hits, and their own records in the style of those hits, all played by a bunch of session musicians and put out under different band names. This one, by "the Primitives", they thought had a shot at being an actual hit, even though it was a dance-craze song about a dance where one partner lays on the floor and the other stamps on their head. But if it was going to be a hit, they needed an actual band to go out and perform it, backing the singer. How would Cale, Conrad, and de Maria like to be three quarters of the Primitives? It sounded fun, but of course they weren't actually guitarists. But as it turned out, that wasn't going to be a problem. They were told that the guitars on the track had all been tuned to one note -- not even to an open chord, like we talked about Steve Cropper doing last episode, but all the strings to one note. Cale and Conrad were astonished -- that was exactly the kind of thing they'd been doing in their drone experiments with La Monte Young. Who was this person who was independently inventing the most advanced ideas in experimental music but applying them to pop songs? And that was how they met Lou Reed: [Excerpt: The Primitives, "The Ostrich"] Where Cale and Conrad were avant-gardeists who had only just started paying attention to rock and roll music, rock and roll was in Lou Reed's blood, but there were a few striking similarities between him and Cale, even though at a glance their backgrounds could not have seemed more different. Reed had been brought up in a comfortably middle-class home in Long Island, but despised the suburban conformity that surrounded him from a very early age, and by his teens was starting to rebel against it very strongly. According to one classmate “Lou was always more advanced than the rest of us. The drinking age was eighteen back then, so we all started drinking at around sixteen. We were drinking quarts of beer, but Lou was smoking joints. He didn't do that in front of many people, but I knew he was doing it. While we were looking at girls in Playboy, Lou was reading Story of O. He was reading the Marquis de Sade, stuff that I wouldn't even have thought about or known how to find.” But one way in which Reed was a typical teenager of the period was his love for rock and roll, especially doo-wop. He'd got himself a guitar, but only had one lesson -- according to the story he would tell on numerous occasions, he turned up with a copy of "Blue Suede Shoes" and told the teacher he only wanted to know how to play the chords for that, and he'd work out the rest himself. Reed and two schoolfriends, Alan Walters and Phil Harris, put together a doo-wop trio they called The Shades, because they wore sunglasses, and a neighbour introduced them to Bob Shad, who had been an A&R man for Mercury Records and was starting his own new label. He renamed them the Jades and took them into the studio with some of the best New York session players, and at fourteen years old Lou Reed was writing songs and singing them backed by Mickey Baker and King Curtis: [Excerpt: The Jades, "Leave Her For Me"] Sadly the Jades' single was a flop -- the closest it came to success was being played on Murray the K's radio show, but on a day when Murray the K was off ill and someone else was filling in for him, much to Reed's disappointment. Phil Harris, the lead singer of the group, got to record some solo sessions after that, but the Jades split up and it would be several years before Reed made any more records. Partly this was because of Reed's mental health, and here's where things get disputed and rather messy. What we know is that in his late teens, just after he'd gone off to New

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Classic Audiobook Collection
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch ~ Full Audiobook

Classic Audiobook Collection

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2022 292:19


Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch audiobook. The framing story concerns a man who dreams of speaking to Venus about love while she wears furs. The unnamed narrator tells his dreams to a friend, Severin, who tells him how to break him of his fascination with cruel women by reading a manuscript, Memoirs of a Supersensual Man. This manuscript tells of a man, Severin von Kusiemski, so infatuated with a woman, Wanda von Dunajew, that he requests to be treated as her slave, and encourages her to treat him in progressively more degrading ways. At first Wanda does not understand or relate to the request, but after humouring Severin a bit she finds the advantages of the method to be interesting and enthusiastically embraces the idea; though at the same time, she disdains Severin for allowing her to do so.

VITRIOL
VITRIOL #24: Burjuva, Pt. 2 Değil

VITRIOL

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 3, 2022 21:59


"Yasa onu altüst eden ve iktidarını olumsuzlayan bir ilke içinde olmadıkça aşılamaz." - Sacher-Masoch'un Takdimi, Gilles Deleuze Arda Yaman kendi tefekkür hücresinde, kendi gündemleriyle hesaplaşıyor.

WDR 5 Bücher
Barbara Schock-Werner empfiehlt Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

WDR 5 Bücher

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2021 2:03


Kölns ehemalige Dombaumeisterin ist eine reiselustige Frau. Zur Vorbereitung einer Tour nach Galizien, in der heutigen Ukraine, hat sie einen Schriftsteller entdeckt, der im 19. Jahrhundert den Begriff des Masochismus geprägt hat.

Quoi de Meuf
(Rediff) - Où est la littérature érotique féministe ?

Quoi de Meuf

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2021 34:59


En cette période estivale, synonyme de moment propice à la lecture d'un livre sur un transat, au bord de la mer ou bien juste chez soi, Nouvelles Ecoutes vous propose de réécouter cet épisode en compagnie de Clémentine et Kiyémis pour un voyage dans la littérature érotique. Associée dans l'imaginaire commun à la séduction, à la sexualité ou à la pornographie, la littérature érotique est longtemps restée une consommation honteuse et cachée, une production délégitimée. Clémentine et Kiyémis explorent l'érotisme en littérature et ce que cette catégorie raconte des luttes féministes intersectionnelles.Que nous dit cette littérature du regard masculin et du corps féminin ? La littérature érotique n'est-elle qu'une vulgaire machine à produire du fantasme ? Qui sont ces autrices que la morale réprouve ?Références entendues dans l'épisode : Nelly Arcan, Putain, Editions du Seuil, 2001Causette est un magazine de presse fémininLas Tesis est un collectif féministe chilien Violette Leduc (1907-1972) est une romancière françaiseMarguerite Duras (1914-1996) est une écrivaine et cinéaste françaiseVirginie Despentes est une écrivaine et réalisatrice françaiseGeorges Bataille (1897-1962) est un écrivain françaisLeopold von Sacher-Masoch, La Vénus à la fourrure, 1870D. H. Lawrence, L'amant de Lady Chatterley, 1928Le Surréalisme est un mouvement artistique du XXe siècle Les Romantisme est un mouvement culturel de la fin du XVIIIe siècle Sappho est une poétesse grecque (VII-VIe siècles avant notre ère)Louise Labé (1522-1566) est une poétesse françaiseJean Calvin (1509-1564) est un théologien françaisColette Renard (1924-2010) est une chanteuse et comédienne françaiseLa marquise de Sade et Monsieur Vénus sont deux romans de RachildeLe Mercure de France est une revue française fondée en 1672Anaïs Nin, Vénus eroticaHenry Miller (1891-1980) est un écrivain américainPauline Réage, Histoire d'O, Editions Pauvert, 1954Colette (1873-1954) est une écrivaine, journaliste, danseuse et comédienne Régine Deforges, La Bicyclette bleue, Ramsay, 1981Louis Aragon, Le con d'Irène, 1928Gabrielle Wittkop (1920-2002) est une écrivaine françaiseRenée Vivien (1877-1909) est un poétesse britannique de langue françaiseHervé Guibert (1955-1991) est un journaliste, écrivain et photographe françaisMary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior, 1988La Secrétaire (2002) est une comédie de Steven Shainberg avec Maggie GyllenhaalMalek Alloula, Le Harem colonial, 1981Lamont Lindström est un anthropologue Harlequin est une collection spécialisée dans les romans d'amourLe goût du baiser et Sexpowerment sont des romans de Camille EmmanuelleE. L. James, Cinquante Nuances de Grey, JC Lattès, 2012Jean Zaganiaris, « Des filles au masculin, des garçons au féminin ? » : ambivalences du genre et sexualités non normatives dans la littérature érotique contemporaine dans Questions de communication, 2017La Musardine est située au 122 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 ParisIn/Soumises, contes cruels au féminin est un recueil de nouvelles rassemblées par Wendy Delorme Judy Minx est une actrice pornoNew Erotica for Feminists, Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton), 2018Le site web BelladonnaMcSweeny's est un journal littéraire“Tuto de dirty talk féministe pour toi le mâle hétéro blanc cisgenre” de Josselin Bordat est à lire sur Brain MagazineLa collection J'ai Lu pour elleLéonora Miano (sous la dir. de), Volcaniques : Une anthologie du plaisir, Mémoire d'encrier, 2015Hara-Kiri est un magazine satirique créé en 1960Gai-Luron est un personnage de bande dessinée créé par Marcel Gotlib en 1964Fluide glacial est un magazine de bande dessinée humoristiqueElizabeth McNeil, 9 semaines ½9 semaine ½ (1986) est un film de Adrian Lyne avec Mickey Rourke et Kim BasingerLa librairie 47 degrés Nord est située au 8 rue du Moulin, 68100 MulhouseLeïla Slimani, Dans le jardin de l'ogre, 2014Annie Ernaux, Passion simple, Gallimard, 1992Calixthe Beyala, Femme nue, femme noire, Albin Michel, 2003Léopold Sédar Senghor, Femme noire dans Chants d'ombreColleen Coover, Les petites faveur, coll. Porn'Pop, Glénat, 2019Claudine Brécourt-Villars, Eros : Anthologie de littérature érotique, La Table ronde, 2019Naomi Alderman, Le Pouvoir, Calmann-Lévy, 2018Aude Picault, Déesse, Les Requins Marteaux, 2019Quoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes. Cet épisode est conçu par Clémentine Gallot, présenté par Kiyémis et préparé avec Kaoutar Harchi. Monté et mixé par Laurie Galligani. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. Prise de son et coordination Ashley Tola. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Radio María Juana
SEXUALIDAD: FANTASÍAS

Radio María Juana

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2021 15:46


Las fantasías son ideas o pensamientos que ponen en juego nuestra creatividad sexual, nos permite escapar de la realidad, imaginar y despertar esa creatividad que a veces parece estar dormida. Ya sean fantasías intimas o para compartir, el objetivo de las mismas es excitarnos. La fantasía no está construida para que acontezca en la realidad, pero si para aumentar el deseo. El Licenciado Federico Andrek, sexólogo, nos da tips para que tengamos relaciones saludables y encendamos el deseo. Algunos libros y literatura erótica recomendada: – Secretos de una Pornostar. Celia Blanco y Guillermo Hernaiz – Cuentos eróticos de navidad. Ed. Tusquets Editores – El Kamasutra de las mil y una noches. Ed. Ediciones B. Grupo Zeta – Diosa. Juan Abren. Ed. Tusquets – Mi jardín secreto. Nancy Friday – Una noche con Clara. Mariano Velasco – La novela de la lujuria. Anónimo. Tusquets Editores – El hombre sentado en el pasillo. Octavio Lotear – Sueños salvajes. Ardientes fantasías sexuales escritas por mujeres para mujeres. Lisa Sussman – Fantasías sexuales: más de 500 consejos explosivos para mujeres y hombres que garantizan una vida sexual de alto voltaje. Hooper, Anne y Hodson, Phillip. – Dímelo al oído: las mujeres cuentan sus fantasías sexuales – Los cien golpes. Melissa P. – Ananga Ranga. Kalyana Malla – Palabras que encienden. Natalia Ferretti – La alfombrilla de los goces y los rezos. Li Yu – El impudor de la mirada. Octávio Lothar – Memorias de una cantante alemana. Wilhelmine Shroeder-Devrient – Mi vida secreta I y II. Autor Anónimo. – La venus de las pieles. Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. – La historia del Ojo. George Bataille – Colección “Sonrisa Vertical”: – Autobiografía de una pulga. Anónimo – Fanny Hill (memorias de una cortesana). John Cleland – Ligeros libertinajes sabáticos. Mercedes Abad – El Jardín De Eros: Las Fantasías Sexuales De Los Españoles. Javier Molina Moreno. Océano Ambar, S.A. – Relaciones escandalosamente puras. Francisca Mazzucato – Amanda de los dioses. Javier Negrets – Colección “La fuente de jade” – Cómic erótico: Kiss Comix. Magazine erótico mensual – Justine o Los infortunios de la virtud. Marqués de Sade

Cntroversy
5: Venus In Furs

Cntroversy

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 6, 2021 35:05


Everyone relax! Velma's back! This week on C*ntroversy we get a little kinky as we delve into one of the worlds most scandalous pieces of literature -  Sacher-Masoch's  "Venus In Furs" and explore the role it had in defining contemporary kink practice, language and sexology. Cue leather boots -  *Cracks whip*.

Tout Sexplique
Qu'est-ce que le masochisme sexuel ? Avec Olivia Benhamou, psy et sexologue

Tout Sexplique

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2021 9:10


« Jouir d'avoir mal »... Comment la soumission, ou la douleur, peuvent-elles apporter du plaisir à certains hommes et femmes ? On parle ici de douleurs librement consenties lors de jeux sexuels. Cette association plaisir-douleur, si elle paraît contre-intuitive dans la sexualité, inonde la production culturelle. Les écrits du marquis de Sade, ceux de l'historien et écrivain von Sacher-Masoch, dont le nom a donné masochisme», les films Belle de Jour, Cinquante nuances de Grey, la récente série comique Bounding... Avec, souvent, une stigmatisation des pratiques. Quel rôle joue la douleur dans l'excitation et la satisfaction sexuelle ? Quelles sont les motivations des masochistes sexuels ? On en parle dans cet épisode de Tout Sexplique avec Olivia Benhamou, psychologue clinicienne, psycho­thérapeute et sexologue. Elle a récemment publié Jouir d'avoir mal aux éditions La Musardine (17 euros), issu d'un mémoire de recherches.Anne-Laetitia BéraudCrédit son: « The Vendetta » Stefan Kartenberg 2018 - Creative Commons – Ccmixter.org. Extraits films: zonesons.comIllustration: Canva / 20 Minutes Hébergé par Acast. Visitez acast.com/privacy pour plus d'informations.

Minute papillon!
Qu'est-ce que le masochisme sexuel ? Avec Olivia Benhamou, psy et sexologue

Minute papillon!

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2021 9:10


« Jouir d’avoir mal »... Comment la soumission, ou la douleur, peuvent-elles apporter du plaisir à certains hommes et femmes ? On parle ici de douleurs librement consenties lors de jeux sexuels. Cette association plaisir-douleur, si elle paraît contre-intuitive dans la sexualité, inonde la production culturelle. Les écrits du marquis de Sade, ceux de l'historien et écrivain von Sacher-Masoch, dont le nom a donné masochisme», les films Belle de Jour, Cinquante nuances de Grey, la récente série comique Bounding... Avec, souvent, une stigmatisation des pratiques.Quel rôle joue la douleur dans l’excitation et la satisfaction sexuelle ? Quelles sont les motivations des masochistes sexuels ? On en parle dans cet épisode Minute Papillon! avec Olivia Benhamou, psychologue clinicienne, psycho­thérapeute et sexologue. Elle a récemment publié Jouir d’avoir mal aux éditions La Musardine. Une enquête auprès d’hommes et de femmes de tous âges, adeptes des pratiques du registre bondage, domination, sado-masochisme (BDSM). En conclusion: il n’y a pas un masochiste, mais une diversité de masochistes, de leurs attentes, de l’utilisation de la douleur morale ou physique, du rapport à l’intimité, le toucher ou la pénétration.Anne-Laetitia BéraudCrédit son: Bisquit Soul de Nordgroove Fugue Icons8.com. Extraits de films zonesons.comIllustration: Canva / 20 Minutes See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Vamos Todos Morrer
Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Vamos Todos Morrer

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2021 5:17


Sesión Prótesis
La venus de las pieles (Roman Polanski, 2013): Enciende mi pasión

Sesión Prótesis

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 7, 2021 59:28


En plena madurez, Roman Polanski retoma la inquietud y la fuerza de sus películas iniciales. El interior de un teatro y dos intérpretes le bastan para crear una obra abstracta y llena de humor negro que se adentra en la metaficción, de hecho es una relectura de la obra homónima de Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. David G. Panadero conduce esta Sesión Prótesis acompañado por el crítico Antonio López. **fragmento inicial interpretado por Patricia Prida

Le Capycast
Capycast 8 - Leopold et Wanda von Sacher-Masoch

Le Capycast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2020 55:03


Leopold (1836 - 1895) et Wanda (1845 - 1909) von Sacher-Masoch : Aujourd'hui un Capy pas commes les autres puisqu’on va parler non pas d’une personnalité mais de deux avec un couple littéraire à la fois légendaire et méconnu : Léopold et Wanda von Sacher-Masoch. Léopold Von Sacher-Masoch c’est l’auteur de La Vénus à la fourrure, un classique de la littérature érotique européenne du 19e. Et Wanda, c’est l’autrice qui l’a épousé et qui raconte dans une autobiographie les 10 ans de leur vie conjugale Toute la playlist est sur Spotify ! open.spotify.com/playlist/42Hr...YCaUajtIRXGMPaDsUnr5Q Hurricane Season Trombone Shorty Hymne du royaume d'Autriche https://youtu.be/Xgcq_mgJogQ Libertango · Astor Piazzolla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwvnyh03Ss Nino Rota Dolce Vita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFTGYaCmBwQ&t=114s White Man - Macy Gray : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwrTuK7vZA Brahms Symphony No.3 (3rd movement) - Barbirolli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tB2SLLnPZg Venus in fur - Velvet underground : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c Alexandre Desplat - Venus in Fur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NIPeiAPpek&t=1451s She brings the rain - CAN : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AL1siDuLI0 Bubamara (Vivaldi Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyhTcacfh_I Life Is a Miracle - Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xNKnwqJ_X0 The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cblMv4bU0t8 Looking For Luka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8-Eg6lKomA Rayman Origins Music_ World Map ~ Sea of Serendipity Biblio https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Sacher-Masoch https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_von_Sacher-Masoch https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-leopold-von-sacher-masoch.html http://eros-thanatos.com/+-Leopold-von-Sacher-Masoch-+.html Confession de ma vie de Wanda Sacher-Masoch chez Rivages https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782743626730-confession-de-ma-vie-wanda-sacher-masoch/ La Vénus à la fourrure de Leopold von Sacher-Masoch https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782266310796-la-venus-a-la-fourrure-leopold-von-sacher-masoch/ Tout le Calvinball Consortium ici :calvinballradio.wordpress.com Rejoignez nous sur Discord : discord.gg/4RnA9v7 Aussi sur Twitter : twitter.com/Calvinball_FM ou twitter.com/CapyCec Donnez nous un pourboire ! : fr.tipeee.com/calvinball

Le Capycast
Capycast 8 - Leopold et Wanda von Sacher-Masoch

Le Capycast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2020 55:03


Leopold (1836 - 1895) et Wanda (1845 - 1909) von Sacher-Masoch : Aujourd'hui un Capy pas commes les autres puisqu’on va parler non pas d’une personnalité mais de deux avec un couple littéraire à la fois légendaire et méconnu : Léopold et Wanda von Sacher-Masoch. Léopold Von Sacher-Masoch c’est l’auteur de La Vénus à la fourrure, un classique de la littérature érotique européenne du 19e. Et Wanda, c’est l’autrice qui l’a épousé et qui raconte dans une autobiographie les 10 ans de leur vie conjugale Toute la playlist est sur Spotify ! open.spotify.com/playlist/42Hr...YCaUajtIRXGMPaDsUnr5Q Hurricane Season Trombone Shorty Hymne du royaume d'Autriche https://youtu.be/Xgcq_mgJogQ Libertango · Astor Piazzolla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwvnyh03Ss Nino Rota Dolce Vita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFTGYaCmBwQ&t=114s White Man - Macy Gray : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwrTuK7vZA Brahms Symphony No.3 (3rd movement) - Barbirolli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tB2SLLnPZg Venus in fur - Velvet underground : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c Alexandre Desplat - Venus in Fur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NIPeiAPpek&t=1451s She brings the rain - CAN : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AL1siDuLI0 Bubamara (Vivaldi Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyhTcacfh_I Life Is a Miracle - Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xNKnwqJ_X0 The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cblMv4bU0t8 Looking For Luka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8-Eg6lKomA Rayman Origins Music_ World Map ~ Sea of Serendipity Biblio https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Sacher-Masoch https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_von_Sacher-Masoch https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-leopold-von-sacher-masoch.html http://eros-thanatos.com/+-Leopold-von-Sacher-Masoch-+.html Confession de ma vie de Wanda Sacher-Masoch chez Rivages https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782743626730-confession-de-ma-vie-wanda-sacher-masoch/ La Vénus à la fourrure de Leopold von Sacher-Masoch https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782266310796-la-venus-a-la-fourrure-leopold-von-sacher-masoch/ Tout le Calvinball Consortium ici :calvinballradio.wordpress.com Rejoignez nous sur Discord : discord.gg/4RnA9v7 Aussi sur Twitter : twitter.com/Calvinball_FM ou twitter.com/CapyCec Donnez nous un pourboire ! : fr.tipeee.com/calvinball

Le Capycast
Capycast 8 - Leopold et Wanda von Sacher-Masoch

Le Capycast

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 31, 2020 55:03


Leopold (1836 - 1895) et Wanda (1845 - 1909) von Sacher-Masoch : Aujourd'hui un Capy pas commes les autres puisqu’on va parler non pas d’une personnalité mais de deux avec un couple littéraire à la fois légendaire et méconnu : Léopold et Wanda von Sacher-Masoch. Léopold Von Sacher-Masoch c’est l’auteur de La Vénus à la fourrure, un classique de la littérature érotique européenne du 19e. Et Wanda, c’est l’autrice qui l’a épousé et qui raconte dans une autobiographie les 10 ans de leur vie conjugale Toute la playlist est sur Spotify ! open.spotify.com/playlist/42Hr...YCaUajtIRXGMPaDsUnr5Q Hurricane Season Trombone Shorty Hymne du royaume d'Autriche https://youtu.be/Xgcq_mgJogQ Libertango · Astor Piazzolla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCwvnyh03Ss Nino Rota Dolce Vita https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFTGYaCmBwQ&t=114s White Man - Macy Gray : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AcwrTuK7vZA Brahms Symphony No.3 (3rd movement) - Barbirolli https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tB2SLLnPZg Venus in fur - Velvet underground : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwzaifhSw2c Alexandre Desplat - Venus in Fur https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NIPeiAPpek&t=1451s She brings the rain - CAN : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AL1siDuLI0 Bubamara (Vivaldi Version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyhTcacfh_I Life Is a Miracle - Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xNKnwqJ_X0 The Masochism Tango - Tom Lehre https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cblMv4bU0t8 Looking For Luka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8-Eg6lKomA Rayman Origins Music_ World Map ~ Sea of Serendipity Biblio https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_von_Sacher-Masoch https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_von_Sacher-Masoch https://www.franceculture.fr/personne-leopold-von-sacher-masoch.html http://eros-thanatos.com/+-Leopold-von-Sacher-Masoch-+.html Confession de ma vie de Wanda Sacher-Masoch chez Rivages https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782743626730-confession-de-ma-vie-wanda-sacher-masoch/ La Vénus à la fourrure de Leopold von Sacher-Masoch https://www.placedeslibraires.fr/livre/9782266310796-la-venus-a-la-fourrure-leopold-von-sacher-masoch/ Tout le Calvinball Consortium ici :calvinballradio.wordpress.com Rejoignez nous sur Discord : discord.gg/4RnA9v7 Aussi sur Twitter : twitter.com/Calvinball_FM ou twitter.com/CapyCec Donnez nous un pourboire ! : fr.tipeee.com/calvinball

Hurlements sur la toundra
ROMANS de l'UNDERGROUND ☩ épisode du 29 mai 2020

Hurlements sur la toundra

Play Episode Listen Later Jul 18, 2020 96:12


Révélateur et provocateur, dû à la richesse de l'imagination et à la souplesse de l'interprétation personnelle, le roman est une véritable force culturelle et sociale. Une création littéraire qui propose une narrative de perturbation, de péripéties et finalement, de transformation et de renouvèlement individuel, dans laquelle nous nous découvrons et connaissons l'autre et de là, sommes portés à poursuivre notre propre quête… Notre culte du Black est en tous points un même phénomène, et ses adhérents émérites, dans leur sulfureuse vision, se sont laissés être inspirés par de tels « romans de l'underground »… un alliage mercurien de grandes puissances, réservé que pour les véritables initiés de ses mystères souterrains. ☩ LISTE LITURGIQUE ☩ 1. Записки изъ подполья (ZAPISKI IZ PODPL'YA) (Russie) - Дым (Dym, “Fumée”) (inspirée de DOSTOÏEVSKI, « Les Carnets du sous-sol ») 2. ISOLDE (Grèce) - Venus in Furs (reprise THE VELVET UNDERGROUND) (inspirée de SACHER-MASOCH, « Vénus à la fourrure ») 3. VAHRZAW (Australie) - The King in Yellow (inspirée de CHAMBERS, « Le Roi en jaune ») 4. SAMSAS TRAUM (Allemagne) - Dies ist kein Traum (inspirée de KAFKA « La Métamorphose ») 5. ALL HELL (États-Unis) - Là-Bas (rêve noir) (inspirée de HUYSMANS, « Là-bas ») 6. CRADLE OF FILTH (Royaume-Uni) - Tortured Soul Asylum (inspirée de BARKER, « Cabal ») 7. OMFALOS (Brésil) - The Naked Lunch (inspirée de BURROUGHS, « Le Festin nu ») 8. KOMMODUS (Australie) - Resurrection of Ancient Might (inspirée de l'œuvre de Yukio MISHIMA) 9. CAPA (États-Unis) - L'Étranger (inspirée de CAMUS, « L'Étranger ») 10. LAUTRÉAMONT (Russie) - Зло (“Zlo”) (inspirée de LAUTRÉAMONT, « Les Chants de Maldoror »)

Le Bizarreum
Episode #5 spécial confinement - Eau de Jouvence sur la comtesse Bathory par Sacher-Masoch

Le Bizarreum

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 28, 2020 37:40


Une nouvelle lue par moi même lors de ce confinement. Je vous emmène suivre les aventures de Emmerich qui va rencontrer la Nadasdy, une femme sanguinaire qui cache de mystérieux secrets.  Cette oeuvre a été écrite par Leopold Von Sacher-masoch.  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch est un écrivain du XIXe connu malheureusement plus connu pour le concept tiré de son nom : le masochisme (1880 Richard von Krafft-Ebing). 

Théâtre
"La Vénus à la fourrure ou les confessions d’un suprasensuel" de Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Théâtre

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2020 100:05


durée : 01:40:05 - Fictions / Théâtre et Cie - Le Roman le plus célèbre de Sacher-Masoch qui s’attache à décrire de manière précise, et sans concession, une relation amoureuse, sensuelle et érotique, entre un homme et une femme, sous la forme d’un esclavage librement consenti et dont les clauses sont celles d’un contrat. - invités : Leopold Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Auteur

Théâtre et compagnie
"La Vénus à la fourrure ou les confessions d’un suprasensuel" de Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch

Théâtre et compagnie

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2020 100:05


durée : 01:40:05 - Fictions / Théâtre et Cie - Le Roman le plus célèbre de Sacher-Masoch qui s’attache à décrire de manière précise, et sans concession, une relation amoureuse, sensuelle et érotique, entre un homme et une femme, sous la forme d’un esclavage librement consenti et dont les clauses sont celles d’un contrat. - invités : Leopold Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Auteur

Frjálsar hendur
Smásögur eftir Leopold von Sacher-Mason

Frjálsar hendur

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2020


Sú hvöt sumra að sækjast eftir píslum og refsingum, þ.e. masókismi, er kennd við austurríski rithöfundurinn Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895). Laust fyrir 1900 birtust þó nokkrar smásögur eftir hann í íslenskum blöðum, bæði Ísafold Björns Jónssonar og Fjallkonu Valdimars Ásmundssonar. Illugi Jökulsson les 2-3 af þeim smásögum Sacher-Masochs sem þeir félagar kynntu fyrir lesendum sínum. Þarna eru barónar og villtar meyjar, frýsandi hross og ólgandi blóð, að flestu leyti hefðbundnar sögur frá sínum tíma.

Frjálsar hendur
Smásögur eftir Leopold von Sacher-Mason

Frjálsar hendur

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2020 50:00


Sú hvöt sumra að sækjast eftir píslum og refsingum, þ.e. masókismi, er kennd við austurríski rithöfundurinn Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895). Laust fyrir 1900 birtust þó nokkrar smásögur eftir hann í íslenskum blöðum, bæði Ísafold Björns Jónssonar og Fjallkonu Valdimars Ásmundssonar. Illugi Jökulsson les 2-3 af þeim smásögum Sacher-Masochs sem þeir félagar kynntu fyrir lesendum sínum. Þarna eru barónar og villtar meyjar, frýsandi hross og ólgandi blóð, að flestu leyti hefðbundnar sögur frá sínum tíma.

Frjálsar hendur
Smásögur eftir Leopold von Sacher-Mason

Frjálsar hendur

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2020


Sú hvöt sumra að sækjast eftir píslum og refsingum, þ.e. masókismi, er kennd við austurríski rithöfundurinn Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836-1895). Laust fyrir 1900 birtust þó nokkrar smásögur eftir hann í íslenskum blöðum, bæði Ísafold Björns Jónssonar og Fjallkonu Valdimars Ásmundssonar. Illugi Jökulsson les 2-3 af þeim smásögum Sacher-Masochs sem þeir félagar kynntu fyrir lesendum sínum. Þarna eru barónar og villtar meyjar, frýsandi hross og ólgandi blóð, að flestu leyti hefðbundnar sögur frá sínum tíma.

The Projection Booth Podcast
Episode 451: Venus in Furs (1969)

The Projection Booth Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2020 84:39


Taking its title from the notorious book by Leopold von Sacher-Mascoch, Jess Franco's Venus in Furs (1969) stars James Darren as Jimmy Logan, a musician who can blow a cool horn. He finds the corpse of a woman he had seen at a party, the mysterious Wanda (Maria Rohm). When Wanda shows up -- alive and seducing -- shortly thereafter, Jimmy becomes obsessed with her, despite his loving relationship with chanteuse Rita (Barbara McNair).Brad Jones and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss Franco's film as well as an alternate cut of the movie along with a few other adaptations of the Sacher-Masoch story.Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Projection Booth Podcast
Episode 451: Venus in Furs (1969)

The Projection Booth Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2020 84:35


Taking its title from the notorious book by Leopold von Sacher-Mascoch, Jess Franco's Venus in Furs (1969) stars James Darren as Jimmy Logan, a musician who can blow a cool horn. He finds the corpse of a woman he had seen at a party, the mysterious Wanda (Maria Rohm). When Wanda shows up -- alive and seducing -- shortly thereafter, Jimmy becomes obsessed with her, despite his loving relationship with chanteuse Rita (Barbara McNair). Brad Jones and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss Franco's film as well as an alternate cut of the movie along with a few other adaptations of the Sacher-Masoch story.

The Projection Booth Podcast
Episode 451: Venus in Furs (1969)

The Projection Booth Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 21, 2020 84:35


Taking its title from the notorious book by Leopold von Sacher-Mascoch, Jess Franco's Venus in Furs (1969) stars James Darren as Jimmy Logan, a musician who can blow a cool horn. He finds the corpse of a woman he had seen at a party, the mysterious Wanda (Maria Rohm). When Wanda shows up -- alive and seducing -- shortly thereafter, Jimmy becomes obsessed with her, despite his loving relationship with chanteuse Rita (Barbara McNair). Brad Jones and Samm Deighan join Mike to discuss Franco's film as well as an alternate cut of the movie along with a few other adaptations of the Sacher-Masoch story.

Quoi de Meuf
#69 - Où est la littérature érotique féministe ?

Quoi de Meuf

Play Episode Listen Later Dec 14, 2019 34:59


Associée dans l’imaginaire commun à la séduction, à la sexualité ou à la pornographie, la littérature érotique est longtemps restée une consommation honteuse et cachée, une production délégitimée. Clémentine et Kiyémis explorent l’érotisme en littérature et ce que cette catégorie raconte des luttes féministes intersectionnelles.Que nous dit cette littérature du regard masculin et du corps féminin ? La littérature érotique n’est-elle qu’une vulgaire machine à produire du fantasme ? Qui sont ces autrices que la morale réprouve ?Références entendues dans l’épisode : Nelly Arcan, Putain, Editions du Seuil, 2001Causette est un magazine de presse fémininLas Tesis est un collectif féministe chilien Violette Leduc (1907-1972) est une romancière françaiseMarguerite Duras (1914-1996) est une écrivaine et cinéaste françaiseVirginie Despentes est une écrivaine et réalisatrice françaiseGeorges Bataille (1897-1962) est un écrivain françaisLeopold von Sacher-Masoch, La Vénus à la fourrure, 1870D. H. Lawrence, L’amant de Lady Chatterley, 1928Le Surréalisme est un mouvement artistique du XXe siècle Les Romantisme est un mouvement culturel de la fin du XVIIIe siècle Sappho est une poétesse grecque (VII-VIe siècles avant notre ère)Louise Labé (1522-1566) est une poétesse françaiseJean Calvin (1509-1564) est un théologien françaisColette Renard (1924-2010) est une chanteuse et comédienne françaiseLa marquise de Sade et Monsieur Vénus sont deux romans de RachildeLe Mercure de France est une revue française fondée en 1672Anaïs Nin, Vénus eroticaHenry Miller (1891-1980) est un écrivain américainPauline Réage, Histoire d’O, Editions Pauvert, 1954Colette (1873-1954) est une écrivaine, journaliste, danseuse et comédienne Régine Deforges, La Bicyclette bleue, Ramsay, 1981Louis Aragon, Le con d’Irène, 1928Gabrielle Wittkop (1920-2002) est une écrivaine françaiseRenée Vivien (1877-1909) est un poétesse britannique de langue françaiseHervé Guibert (1955-1991) est un journaliste, écrivain et photographe françaisMary Gaitskill, Bad Behavior, 1988La Secrétaire (2002) est une comédie de Steven Shainberg avec Maggie GyllenhaalMalek Alloula, Le Harem colonial, 1981Lamont Lindström est un anthropologue Harlequin est une collection spécialisée dans les romans d’amourLe goût du baiser et Sexpowerment sont des romans de Camille EmmanuelleE. L. James, Cinquante Nuances de Grey, JC Lattès, 2012Jean Zaganiaris, « Des filles au masculin, des garçons au féminin ? » : ambivalences du genre et sexualités non normatives dans la littérature érotique contemporaine dans Questions de communication, 2017La Musardine est située au 122 rue du Chemin Vert, 75011 ParisIn/Soumises, contes cruels au féminin est un recueil de nouvelles rassemblées par Wendy Delorme Judy Minx est une actrice pornoNew Erotica for Feminists, Sceptre (Hodder & Stoughton), 2018Le site web BelladonnaMcSweeny’s est un journal littéraire“Tuto de dirty talk féministe pour toi le mâle hétéro blanc cisgenre” de Josselin Bordat est à lire sur Brain MagazineLa collection J’ai Lu pour elleLéonora Miano (sous la dir. de), Volcaniques : Une anthologie du plaisir, Mémoire d’encrier, 2015Hara-Kiri est un magazine satirique créé en 1960Gai-Luron est un personnage de bande dessinée créé par Marcel Gotlib en 1964Fluide glacial est un magazine de bande dessinée humoristiqueElizabeth McNeil, 9 semaines ½9 semaine ½ (1986) est un film de Adrian Lyne avec Mickey Rourke et Kim BasingerLa librairie 47 degrés Nord est située au 8 rue du Moulin, 68100 MulhouseLeïla Slimani, Dans le jardin de l’ogre, 2014Annie Ernaux, Passion simple, Gallimard, 1992Calixthe Beyala, Femme nue, femme noire, Albin Michel, 2003Léopold Sédar Senghor, Femme noire dans Chants d’ombreColleen Coover, Les petites faveur, coll. Porn’Pop, Glénat, 2019Claudine Brécourt-Villars, Eros : Anthologie de littérature érotique, La Table ronde, 2019Naomi Alderman, Le Pouvoir, Calmann-Lévy, 2018Aude Picault, Déesse, Les Requins Marteaux, 2019Quoi de Meuf est une émission de Nouvelles Écoutes. Cet épisode est conçu par Clémentine Gallot, présenté par Kiyémis et préparé avec Kaoutar Harchi. Monté et mixé par Laurie Galligani. Générique réalisé par Aurore Meyer Mahieu. Prise de son et coordination Ashley Tola.

Estalló La Paz
ELP 1X26 Mi fetiche es que levanten una colina para que invadan mi fortaleza (Venus in furs Masoch, The great battle)

Estalló La Paz

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 4, 2019 117:45


En este capítulo de Estalló La Paz os traemos dos obras que en esta ocasión también tratan de violencia, pero desde dos perspectivas distintas, en la primera parte del programa nuestra compañera @aForeignWord nos habla de venus in furs, la "novela erótica" escrita por Leopold von Sacher-Masoch en 1870 y que gracias a ella se acuñó el famoso término masoquismo. En la segunda parte del programa @pelaques1991 nos trae la película La Gran Batalla, esta película coreana del director kim kwang-sik nos relata un hecho histórico en la etapa de los tres reinos de corea, una película épica sobre la defensa numantina de una fortaleza contra el ejército chino.

Asymptote Podcast
Asymptote Podcast: Out from Under the Masochist’s Shadow

Asymptote Podcast

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 22, 2019 21:05


Podcast editor Dominick Boyle speaks with translator Olivia Hellewell, whose stellar translation of an excerpt from Katja Perat’s The Masochist earned her first place in the fiction category of our 2019 Close Approximations Contest and $1,000 in prizes. Set in an impeccably researched past, the novel gives Leopold von Sacher-Masoch—the (in)famously eccentric aristocrat after which masochism […]

Ist das normal?
BDSM und das Spiel von Dominanz und Unterwerfung – Teil 1/3

Ist das normal?

Play Episode Listen Later Sep 17, 2018 32:54


Bondage und Disziplin, Dominanz und Unterwerfung, Sadismus und Masochismus oder einfach kurz BDSM. Wir sprechen über Sex mit Fessel und Peitsche, über Rollenfantasien mit Doktorspielen und Petplay. Worum es bei BDSM im Wesentlichen geht, erklärt die Sexualtherapeutin und Ärztin Melanie Büttner. Im Gespräch mit Sven Stockrahm, Vize-Ressortleiter für Wissen und Digital bei ZEIT ONLINE, geht es um alles außer Vanilla-Sex, um feste Regeln und die Lust, zu dominieren oder sich zu unterwerfen. Dies ist die erste von drei Sexpodcast-Folgen zu BDSM. Mit der “Ist das normal?“-Trilogie nähern wir uns der Spielart und den zugrunde liegenden sexuellen Praktiken. In dieser Folge: Was meint BDSM genau? Woher kommt der Sadismus, wer war Leopold von Sacher-Masoch und was steckt hinter der Geschichte der O.? Wir sprechen darüber, was Menschen an BDSM fasziniert – vor allem abseits der Klischees aus der “50 Shades of Grey”-Buch und -Filmreihe. Ihr habt eine Frage? Irgendetwas, das ihr schon immer über Sex wissen wolltet? Schickt uns eine kurze Sprachnachricht an istdasnormal@zeit.de oder schreibt uns. Alle Folgen und Quellen von “Ist das normal?” findet ihr auf www.zeit.de/sexpodcast.

New Books in Biology and Evolution
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

New Books in Biology and Evolution

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2018 21:51


The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin's On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In her book, Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900 (Bohlau, 2016) (Der Mensch, der Affe: Anthropologie und Darwin-Rezeption in Deutschland 1850-1900), Hanna Engelmeier analyzes several historical positions concerning the human-ape-relationship. By tracing back how the reception of Darwin changed thinking about apes, she concludes that there is not only an anthropology relating to humans, but also an anthropology concerning apes. Interestingly, Engelmeier discusses a wide range of thinkers from 1850-1900, including Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Klimt and also literary authors such as Wilhelm Raabe and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in German Studies
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

New Books in German Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2018 21:51


The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In her book, Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900 (Bohlau, 2016) (Der Mensch, der Affe: Anthropologie und Darwin-Rezeption in Deutschland 1850-1900), Hanna Engelmeier analyzes several historical positions concerning the human-ape-relationship. By tracing back how the reception of Darwin changed thinking about apes, she concludes that there is not only an anthropology relating to humans, but also an anthropology concerning apes. Interestingly, Engelmeier discusses a wide range of thinkers from 1850-1900, including Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Klimt and also literary authors such as Wilhelm Raabe and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Literary Studies
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

New Books in Literary Studies

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2018 22:03


The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In her book, Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900 (Bohlau, 2016) (Der Mensch, der Affe: Anthropologie und Darwin-Rezeption in Deutschland 1850-1900), Hanna Engelmeier analyzes several historical positions concerning the human-ape-relationship. By tracing back how the reception of Darwin changed thinking about apes, she concludes that there is not only an anthropology relating to humans, but also an anthropology concerning apes. Interestingly, Engelmeier discusses a wide range of thinkers from 1850-1900, including Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Klimt and also literary authors such as Wilhelm Raabe and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Anthropology
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

New Books in Anthropology

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2018 21:51


The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In her book, Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900 (Bohlau, 2016) (Der Mensch, der Affe: Anthropologie und Darwin-Rezeption in Deutschland 1850-1900), Hanna Engelmeier analyzes several historical positions concerning the human-ape-relationship. By tracing back how the reception of Darwin changed thinking about apes, she concludes that there is not only an anthropology relating to humans, but also an anthropology concerning apes. Interestingly, Engelmeier discusses a wide range of thinkers from 1850-1900, including Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Klimt and also literary authors such as Wilhelm Raabe and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books Network
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

New Books Network

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2018 22:03


The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In her book, Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900 (Bohlau, 2016) (Der Mensch, der Affe: Anthropologie und Darwin-Rezeption in Deutschland 1850-1900), Hanna Engelmeier analyzes several historical positions concerning the human-ape-relationship. By tracing back how the reception of Darwin changed thinking about apes, she concludes that there is not only an anthropology relating to humans, but also an anthropology concerning apes. Interestingly, Engelmeier discusses a wide range of thinkers from 1850-1900, including Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Klimt and also literary authors such as Wilhelm Raabe and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Intellectual History
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

New Books in Intellectual History

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2018 21:51


The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In her book, Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900 (Bohlau, 2016) (Der Mensch, der Affe: Anthropologie und Darwin-Rezeption in Deutschland 1850-1900), Hanna Engelmeier analyzes several historical positions concerning the human-ape-relationship. By tracing back how the reception of Darwin changed thinking about apes, she concludes that there is not only an anthropology relating to humans, but also an anthropology concerning apes. Interestingly, Engelmeier discusses a wide range of thinkers from 1850-1900, including Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Klimt and also literary authors such as Wilhelm Raabe and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
Hanna Engelmeier, “Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900” (Bohlau, 2016)

New Books in Science, Technology, and Society

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2018 21:51


The relationship between humans and apes has been discussed for centuries. That discussion took a new turn with the publication and reception of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection (1859). In her book, Man, the Ape: Anthropology and the Reception of Darwin in Germany, 1850-1900 (Bohlau, 2016) (Der Mensch, der Affe: Anthropologie und Darwin-Rezeption in Deutschland 1850-1900), Hanna Engelmeier analyzes several historical positions concerning the human-ape-relationship. By tracing back how the reception of Darwin changed thinking about apes, she concludes that there is not only an anthropology relating to humans, but also an anthropology concerning apes. Interestingly, Engelmeier discusses a wide range of thinkers from 1850-1900, including Ernst Haeckel, Friedrich Nietzsche and Gustav Klimt and also literary authors such as Wilhelm Raabe and Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Behind the 8 Ball
Sex-Related World Records, the Story of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the Perfect Wing Woman

Behind the 8 Ball

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 10, 2017 68:10


No Ocho, no problem. On this episode of Behind the 8 Ball, the Ochoman is on vacation, but that doesn’t stop the rest of the crew from bringing us plenty of laughs. Armand decides to bring us a little bit of history with the story of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, from which the term masochism was derived. Also,... The post Sex-Related World Records, the Story of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, and the Perfect Wing Woman appeared first on Ochoman: Behind the Eightball.

Lust Auf Zorn
Alles über Österreich mit Bratl, Schnaps und Clemens H.

Lust Auf Zorn

Play Episode Listen Later Nov 12, 2016 60:34


Clemens Haipl, Autor und multimedialer Rundfunk-Master, ist zu Gast und liest aus "111 Gründe Wien zu hassen", dem Blockbuster-Buch von Markus! Weiters werden das Innviertel, Wiener Grätzl, Bücher schreiben, alt eingesessene Rassismen und allgemeiner heimischer Geltungsdrang besprochen – was zu E-Gitarren, Hedy Lamar, Sacher-Masoch, EAV und Adolf Wanda führt, aber dort nicht endet. 1000 Dank an Sanny, Andreas (für den geilen Saubraten!!!) und an David für die Gesellschaft und herausragende Bewirtung.  Links zum Buch von Markus Lust (wir gratulieren zu einem smart geschriebenen, saulustigem und sehr gelungenem Stück Literatur)! http://wien.orf.at/m/news/stories/2805932/ http://www.meinbezirk.at/wieden/lokales/ihr-koenntets-ein-bisschen-weniger-gschissn-sein-markus-lust-hat-111-gruende-wien-zu-hassen-d1920064.html http://www.woman.at/a/111-gruende-wien-zu-hassen Bussis!

Flash Forward
MiniPod Time Travel

Flash Forward

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 22, 2016 18:56


Today’s episode is a minipod, a smattering of time travel, future travel, and news about the show.    In this episode we hear a bunch of messages from listeners: what folks think about past futures we’ve been to, and future futures we should travel to.     We also cover some show news! So, in bullet point form:    Some of you might be new to the show this season. Maybe you didn’t even know this was the second season! Well, it is! Season one is available on Soundcloud, where you can download all the episodes for listening purposes.   The show now has a subreddit! So if you like Reddit and you want to talk about the show there, we’re at r/FlashForwardPod. I have some plans for the subreddit, including maybe some AMAs with guests of the show, and just general discussions of each future, and all that stuff.  We also now have an online store! Where you can buy stuff! Right now there are a couple of different versions of the logo that you can put on anything from a tote bag to a mug to a cell phone case. It’s all very cool looking so if you’re the kind of person who likes to buy swag for shows you listen to, you can now do that at our store. And if there’s an item that you don’t see in the store that you wish you could buy, let me know. If you do buy something from the store, I would love to see pictures of whatever it is in your life! That would make me extremely happy.    I mean come on check out these tote bags!     The last thing I do in the episode is reveal a few of the hidden references from this season. A lot of you have asked what you should be looking for, so hopefully this will help!    In episode 2, Love At First Sexbot, the names of the different sex robots are references to particular people and characters. The Hadaly is named after a mechanical woman invented by a fictional Thomas Edison in the 1886 novel The Future Eve. She’s one of the first female robots to appear in literature.   The Leopold is named after Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, whose name lives on in the term “masochism.”   And here’s probably the hardest one from that episode: Margot’s Discount Closet Solutions is named after a character from a Ray Bradbury short story called “All Summer in a Day.” That one was hard, I admit.   In the mosquito episode, two of the names are references to Animorphs characters, and the repeated use of the number 18 points to the book in which the Animorphs turn into mosquitos.    That’s often what you’re looking for. Other times it’s quotes and clips I play. So, go forth and find them!     Flash Forward is produced by me, Rose Eveleth, and is part of the Boing Boing podcast family. The intro music is by Asura and the outtro music is by Broke for Free. Other music used in this episode is by Ryan Lit and Decktonic.     If you want to suggest a future we should take on, send us a note on Twitter, Facebook, by voicemail at (347) 927-1425 or by sending an email or voice memo to info@flashforwardpod.com. We love hearing your ideas!     And if you want to support the show, there are a few ways you can do that too! We have a Patreon page, where you can donate to the show. But if that’s not in the cards for you, you can head to iTunes and leave us a nice review or just tell your friends about us. Those things really do help.     That’s all for this future, come back next week and we’ll travel to a new one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Zettelkasten
ZK005 Die Verwandlung

Zettelkasten

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2016


Wir sind wieder da: In der fünften Folge sprechen wir über "Die Verwandlung" von Franz Kafka. Außerdem haben wir wieder ein paar Buchtipps für euch. Shownotes Franz Kafka. Die Verwandlung. Reclam XL 19125 District 9. Regisseur: Neill Blomkamp. 2009 Oliver Jahraus, Kafka. Leben, Schreiben, Machtapparate. Reclam 2006 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Venus im Pelz. Fischer 2013 Johann Wolfgang Goethe. Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre. Reclam UB 7826 Franz Kafka. Hochzeitsvorbereitung auf dem Lande. In: Gesammelte Werke in acht Bänden. Fischer 1992 Franz Kafka. Das Urteil. In: Erzählungen. Reclam UB 9426 Franz Kafka. Der Heizer (1. Kapitel Amerika). In: Gesammelte Werke in acht Bänden. Fischer 1992 Franz Kafka. In der Strafkolonie. In: Erzählungen. Reclam UB 9426 Peter von Matt. Verkommene Söhne, mißratene Töchter. Familiendesaster in der Literatur. dtv 1997 Buchtipps: Stefan Meier. Superman transmedial: Eine Pop-Ikone im Spannungsfeld von Medienwandel und Serialität (Edition Medienwissenschaften). Transkript 2015 Donald Antrim. Wählt Mr. Robinson für eine bessere Welt. Rowohlt 2015.

KRCB-FM: Second Row Center
"Venus in Fur" - April 8, 2015

KRCB-FM: Second Row Center

Play Episode Listen Later Apr 8, 2015 4:00


Something kinky has been taking place lately in the world of mainstream entertainment. Sadism and masochism are now to romantic comedy what romance and comedy use to be to romantic comedy. From the 2002 movie Secretary to 2011’s three-novel series 50 Shades of Grey (released as a movie earlier this year), many of our favorite new “love stories” are disturbingly, conspicuously twisted. Standing somewhere between those two examples is David Ives’ Tony-winning 2010 stage play "Venus in Fur," now running at Main Stage West in Sebastopol. Winner of the Tony for Best Play and Best Actress, Venus in Fur stands as a career high-water-mark for Ives, who’s best known for work like All in the Timing and Lives of the Saints, both collections of short one-acts. Ives’ work, by and large, has tended to sacrifice plot in the service of playing with language. Few playwrights are as masterful and entertaining with words and sentences as is Ives. But as an inventor of compelling stories, he’s always been a little lacking. Perhaps that’s the reason he’s chosen to adapt so many classic tales by other people when tackling full-length plays, works like Piere Corneille’s "The Liar" and Moliere’s "The Misanthrope." With "Venus in Fur," Ives fuses his best instincts into one show, fashioning a language-rich play about a playwright-director who’s just completed an adaption of the 1870 novel Venus in Furs, by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. And here’s where it gets kinky. Sacher-Masoch is the gentlemen for whom the term “masochism” was named, and Venus in Furs is the novel that brought the concept of sadomasochism into public awareness. At Main Stage West, Anthony Abate plays Thomas the playwright, who has been auditioning actresses for the part of Vanda, an aristocratic woman who spontaneously takes a sex-slave and learns to mistreat him in degrading ways. As Thomas is about to leave his New York office, with the role of Vanda still uncast, in walks an actress whose name is also Vanda (mysterious!), played by Rose Roberts, who’s pretty much astonishing from start to finish. Vanda is a hot mess of an actress, dropping F-bombs left and right, desperate to audition though she’s three hours late, clutching a bag of props and costumes and a copy of the script she’s somehow gotten her hands on - despite the fact that almost no one has read it but Thomas and his producers. It is difficult to describe what happens next without spoiling the delicate series of revelations and red-herrings Ives incorporates into his gradually intensifying - and frequently hilarious - if not exactly plot-heavy story. The audition quickly turns into a battle of wits, sexuality, and gender assumptions. Thomas is surprised when that Vanda seems to have memorized the entire script, and as the audition commences, he reluctantly reads the role of the sex-slave to Vanda’s dominatrix. Sacher-Masoch’s soft-porn story-within-the-story - which Vanda eventually eviscerates with her dead-on critical analysis - eventually overlaps onto the intensifying power-play taking place between director and actress. There’s a bit of smoke-and-mirrors going on in Ives’ script, which would have little story at all were it not for the story within the story, but Ives’ work the smoke and mirrors well enough that few will notice that not much actually happens. But then, what does happen is extremely entertaining and even a little thought-provoking, thanks largely to director David Lear, who adds a few bold additions to Ives’ original vision. Ultimately, this uneven but highly intelligent play has lots to say about what men and women think about men and women. Funny, thoughtful, and painfully to-the-point, Venus in Fur is so good it hurts. "Venus in Fur" runs Thursday–Sunday through April 25 at Main Stage West. Mainstagewest.org. I’m David Templeton, Second Row Center, for KRCB.

Black Sweet Stories
#22 Venus im Pelz Teil 1

Black Sweet Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2013 32:07


In dieser Novelle von Leopold von Sacher-Masoch aus dem Jahr 1870 tauchen wir ein in die Gedankenwelt eines Mannes, dessen Sehnsucht es ist, sich einer Frau vollkommen hinzugeben und zu unterwerfen…

Black Sweet Stories
Folge 022 – Venus im Pelz Teil 1

Black Sweet Stories

Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2013 32:07


In dieser Novelle von Leopold von Sacher-Masoch aus dem Jahr 1870 tauchen wir ein in die Gedankenwelt eines Mannes, dessen Sehnsucht es ist, sich einer Frau vollkommen hinzugeben und zu unterwerfen...

Das Kalenderblatt
#01 Ritter v. Sacher-Masoch gestorben, Masochist

Das Kalenderblatt

Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2010 4:19


In seinen Büchern kräuselte sich noch das Achselhaar der Damen, und die Herren liebten die Peitsche, die sie nicht selber schwangen. Als Leopold von Sacher-Masoch am 9. März 1895 starb, standen seine Phantasien für einen neuen Begriff: den Masochismus.

Kulturradion: K1/K2
Vem är dekadent idag?

Kulturradion: K1/K2

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 14, 2010 44:20


: K1 inleder säsongen med ett aningen anfrätt ämne: Dekadensen, som oftast förknippas med det förra sekelskiftet. Salome dansar i slöjor, klena män med kvinnoskräck, Medusahuvuden, ruttnande adel och en skrämd borgarklass. Nu pågår utställningen Dekadens på Dunkers Kulturhus i Helsingborg. Cecilia Blomberg och Katarina Wikars frågar sig var dekadensen står att finna idag. Dekadensen förknippas oftast med det förra sekelskiftet. Salome dansar i slöjor med Johannes döparens avhuggna huvud på ett fat, klena estetmän med kvinnoskräck och syfilis, Medusahuvuden, anfrätt adel och en skrämd borgarklass. Dekadensen var en reaktion mot industrialismen och den frambrytande moderniteten och man hyllade det artificiella. Nu pågår utställningen Dekadens på Dunkers Kulturhus i Helsingborg. Utgångspunkten där är William Hogarths svit Rucklarens Väg. Cecilia Blomberg och Katarina Wikars frågar konstprofessorn Gertrud Sandqvist var dekadensen står att finna idag. Har den tappat i status? Räcker det med att röka inomhus eller måste det till utsvävningar likt Berlusconis? Musik och texter: Om kvinnans uttryck av Baudelaire, I´ve written a letter to daddy med Bette Davis, Kadavret och Berusa er av Charles Baudelaire, La Decadanse av Serge Gainsbourg och Jane Birkin, Ett öppet ord av Ola Hansson, ur Venus i Päls av Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Femme fatale med Nico och Velvet Underground, Venus in furs med Velvet Underground, Put the blame on mame med Rita Hayworth, Each man kills the thing he loves med Ingrid Caven, ur Plattform av Michel Houllebecq. Dekadent läsning: Bertha Funcke av Stella Kleve, Venus i päls av Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Det ondas blommor av Charles Baudelaire, Sensitiva amorosa av Ola Hansson, Mot strömmen av J K Huysmans, Huset Hilton av Jerry Oppenheimer, Sixty selected drawings av Aubrey Beardsley. Dekadent alfabet: Anna Anka, Berlusconi, Casino, Dandyism, Esseintes, Förbrännande sinnlighet, Gainsbourg, Hyperesteticism, Iskyla, Jeunesse dorée, Könsäckel, Letargi, Melankoli, Nico, Opium, Paris Hilton, Q, Rökning, Syfilis, Tristessa, Unkenhet, Venus Im Pelz, Wanda, X, Y, Z, Ångest, Äckelältande, Övervikt.

Rock In My World
Psychedelic Sunday

Rock In My World

Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2008 6:17


The Velvet Underground - Venus In Furs Psychedelic Sunday has been a weekly feature in my blog for just over two years, but I didn't spotlight anything from The Velvet Underground until November of 2007. What was I smokin'? Each of the eleven songs included on that album deserves a separate post! Venus In Furs is the fourth song on The Velvet Underground & Nico, a groundbreaking 1967debut album from the band. The song was written by Lou Reed with inspiration from Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's book of the same name. I've never read the book, but apparently it's about kinky stuff like bondage and sadomasochism. Mistress Nat would approve. Originally recorded by band members Lou Reed, John Cale and Sterling Morrison in their NYC loft in July 1965, the song was rearranged for the album cut, and, according to rock critic David Fricke, the final version is a "stark, Olde English-style folk lament." To be sure, the tempo is rather dirge-like, and the lyrics contain masochism references (shiny, shiny, shiny boots of leather; whiplash girlchild in the dark; clubs and bells, your servant, dont forsake him; strike, dear mistress, and cure his heart.) Cale's viola wails in the song and gives it that sinister flavor, and Reed plays a guitar with all of its strings tuned to the same note. There is a heartbeat-like thump of a bass drum throughout, and very simple tambourine beat keeps the pace. This is a classic "head" music for me, meant to be heard in a darkened room when I'm in just the right mood. The song remains beloved by music fans and has been covered by everyone from The Melvins to Smashing Pumpkins to Bettie Serveert. Oliver Stone used it as background music in a scene in that awful Doors movie (clip here.) Why? Well, not only 'cuz it's a cool song, but because of the Andy Warhol link. Warhol, of course, did that famous cover. As memorable and distinctive as that cover is, I still don't get the banana.