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Archaeology of Knowledge

Michel Foucault

Simulacra and Simulation

Jean Baudrillard

Mythologies

Roland Barthes

Tyranny of Intimacy

Logic of Phantasy (from Lacan's seminar)

Body

from "Critical Terms for Art History"

amelia jones

Anne Carson
CONTEMPTS

"This ideology of intimacy transmutes political categories into psychological categories."
--> this reminds me of Adam Curtis' three-part documentary "The Century of Self"
--> Edward Bernays, inventor of 'public relations' applies his uncle Sigmund Freud's theories to propaganda/marketing
--> Herbert Marcuse - L'homme unidimensionnel

I however disagree with Illouz's argument that feminism rationalises intimacy.

"The feminist and therapeutic persuasions produced new emotional practices, entailing new ways of attending to emotions and new ways of using cultural categories and discourses to classify emotions, label them, explain them, and transform them. To put this differently: feminism and therapy conjoined have been part and parcel of a vast process of disciplining the emotions inside the private sphere."
"In this sense, psychology and feminism not only have led to emancipation, equality and freedom, but also have become tyrants of intimacy, discipliners of love and family, rationalisators of love, coolers of passion."

This isn't true for me. Feminist has expanded my possibilities for intimacy, for example by bringing pegging to the table.