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Where's Camille?

kanch_bud — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:23:23 GMT

What's Camille Paglia up to these days?

Can anyone inform us?

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What is it that you like about Camille Paglia`s writing?

Blackgrass — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 09:45:26 GMT

What is it that you like/love about Camille Paglia`s writing? Is it the essence of her work? Is it a subject that interests you? Or is it her ability to cross bounderies? Or maybe something else?

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Odd effect

LA JOIE — Wed, 07 May 2008 16:08:28 GMT

I have never really classified myself as strait, gay, or bi. I think categorizing and classifying ourselves is silly. I have been with women before, but only ever really been in love and dated men... That being said, what is it about Camille Paglia that draws everyone in? I'm not star struck, or closeted... but I have a major girl crush on Camille.

WTF?

Anyone else in the same boat?

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cp poetry

jacquelineseaquist — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:49:04 GMT

Does anyone out there know if CP has ever written or published any poetry?

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Camille speaks about Clinton and Obama

jacquelineseaquist — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:29:36 GMT

Hello tribe. In the January posting of CP's column on Salon, she conducts a scathing psychoanalysis of Clinton and endorses Obama. Thought you might like to have a look:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/01/10/hillary/

Like Camille, I will support the nominated Democratic candidate, whatever the outcome. But wouldn't it be fun if we could have both Clinton and Obama in the top two seats of our government? What do you think?

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Why is she a lightning rod for contoversy?

Swaz — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 04:21:50 GMT

I saw a piece on Camille a few years ago on 60 minutes and she had these two big gay bodyguards on stage where she was speaking. I don't remember WHAT she said, only that I thought she was absolutely totally cool. Then I hated myself cause I forgot to write her name down. I'm so happy that not only have I rediscovered her but there's all sorts of people who can fill me in about her now.

So I guess my first question is "Why is she such a lightning rod for controversy?" (I'm assuming that because of what I remember with the bodyguard thing) Did she piss-off men, women, or both? No need for huge explanations, a paragraph and a link will be great. Thanks!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!

Swaz

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Paglia again at Salon

Johnny — Sat, 17 Mar 2007 17:08:17 GMT

Just letting all you Paglia fans know that her second column is now up on Salon.com. Her new cloumns are now being published on the second Wednesday of each month. So if you want a regular dose of Paglia, check it out.

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Paglia back on Salon.com

Johnny — Sat, 17 Feb 2007 05:33:17 GMT

I'm new here and I see that this tribe isn't very active, but I thought you all might want to know that Camille Paglia is again doing a monthly column at Salon.com. The first one was published a couple of days ago and has already generated over 500 simpering letters, mostly from members threatening to drop their subscriptions.

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the birds

jacquelineseaquist — Mon, 31 Oct 2005 09:08:13 GMT

Was watching tv tonight, something I rarely do, and what should be on but Alfred Hitchcock's film, The Birds. Cool. CP wrote an entire book about this film for the BFI film classics series. If you haven't seen this movie, it's definitely worth a look. This is what CP had to say about the character Melanie, played by Tippi Hendren. She is discussing a scene in which Melanie is driving an Aston-Martin convertible:

"We must note the agressive pleasure with which Melanie deftly accelerates through the curves at top speed with the wind hitting her face and rippling the gauzy chiffon scarf around her hair... But Melanie Daniels is free as a bird: she rides alone, amused by her own meddlesome thoughts and plans. Tippi Hendren is terrific as she shifts gears and rests her fawn-gloved hands on the steering wheel. What could be more representative of modern female liberation than an elegantly dressed woman gunning a roadster through the open countryside?"

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Simone de Beauvoir/second sex.

Blackgrass — Tue, 29 Nov 2005 09:11:35 GMT

have you read Simone de beauvoir`s book, `The Second Sex`?
If I remember CP mentiones her in her sexual personnae book, as she does Nietze. In her chapeter called `dreams, fears & idols`, she discusses also the reason that men fear women, using Nature as her logic, saying that the trouble of the spirit (male) is the price of development...!
......`he dreams of quiet in disquiet & of an opaque plentitude that nevertheless would be endowed with consciousness. This dream incarnated is precisely woman; she is the wished-for-intermediary between Nature, the stranger to men & the fellow being so closely identical`.

She also states that.....`If a little boy remains in early childhood sensually attached to the matriarchal flesh, when he becomes older, socialised & takes note of his individual existence, this same flesh frightens him, he would ignore it & see in his mother only moral personage. If he is anxioushe believes her pure & chaste, it is less because of amoral jealousy than because of his refusal to see her as a body..he is embarrassed & blushes when he meets with his friends, his mother, his sisters or any female relatives, because their presence calls him back to those realms of immanence whence he would fly, expose roots from which he would tear himself loose. His irritation when his mother kisses him or cajoles him has the same significance, he disowns his family, mother & maternal bosom.
He would have liked to have sprang to the world, like Athena, fully grown, fully armoured, invulnerable. To have been conceived & then born an infant is the curse that hangs over his destiny, the impurity that hangs over his being. And, too, the announcement of his death`!

The reason Jacq I quote all this, is how with such deep insight, do we relate this in understandable form to others. As because I have had sexual experiences beyond most (Dom) & because I have dealt with sexual confusions both as this & a counsellor....do we get people to understand their origins, the place of fear also & how it can affect their lives? I am a great believer in grabbing kids when they are very young to begin to comprehend this; but no children would truly absorb such complex yet simple basics? To even begin to approach this subject!

What are your thoughts. I think we owe it to ourselves firstly to wrap this around us...it could help tremendously the future of espcially sexual offending or even most sexual problems?

Do you see what I am getting at?

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women and men

jacquelineseaquist — Fri, 25 Nov 2005 20:57:48 GMT

here is a link to a discussion on the uk network that i thought this tribe might find interesting:

http://uk-network.tribe.net/thread/71b4561e-c0a7-4d64-9316-0d89bf858e94

aloha

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the source of great art?

jacquelineseaquist — Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:20:25 GMT

"Ironically, today's fashion magazines and supermodels, embodying the cult of beauty for a mass audience, are in the main line of art history."

"I would argue that great art comes only from mutilated egos."

"All art belongs to its social context, but great art by definition transcends that context and speaks universally."

CP, The New Sexism: Liberating Art And Beauty, 1993

These quotes from an essay in the Washington Post are out of context, but raise some interesting points for discussion, I think. To the first quote, I would say that fantasy/sci-fi art and comics/graphic novels are perhaps more in the main of art history these days.

Great art is transcendant, I agree, but whether that requires the artist to have a "mutilated ego" is a point of debate. There would seem to be other developed perceptions in a great artist, such as empathy and cognizance.

Well, let's hear from the tribe on this. What makes great art, and what is leading the direction of art history, in your opinion? Aloha.

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the function of modern art

jacquelineseaquist — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:05:45 GMT

"I feel the function of the modern artist is precisely to shatter all taboos and that where the subject of the art work causes the most pain, that is where the artist is contributing the most to civilization."

Camille Paglia, Vamps & Tramps (1994)

Must modern art provoke in order to be effective? What does the "pain" of modern art signify about the current state of Western culture?

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pop culture

jacquelineseaquist — Thu, 29 Sep 2005 08:14:08 GMT

I invite you to post photos of your favorite icons of pop culture, especially those things that you feel make a statement about Western civilisation and art. Aloha.

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new point of view

jacquelineseaquist — Mon, 05 Sep 2005 23:13:08 GMT

"We need a new point of view that would combine the inspiring progressive principles and global conciousness of the Sixties with the hard political lessons of the Seventies and Eighties, sobering decades of rational reaction against the arrogant excesses of my generation, who thought we could change the world overnight. In other words, we need a fusion of idealism and realism. Social justice and compassion are compatible with an intelligent respect for private enterprise and law and order. But first, history and economics must be directly studied, without the posturing and simplistic cliches that masquerade as political thinking these days among liberals in and out of academe."

Camille Paglia, Sex, Art, and American Culture (1992)

What's your point of view?

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break, blow, burn

jacquelineseaquist — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 01:14:37 GMT

"Poets have glimpses of other realities, higher or lower, which can't be fully grasped cognitively. The poem is a methodical working out of fugitive impressions. It finds or rather projects symbols into the inner and outer worlds. Poets speak even when they know their words will be swept away by the wind."

Camille Paglia, Break, Blow, Burn (2005)

http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/paglia/

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political consequences?

jacquelineseaquist — Sat, 03 Sep 2005 08:47:17 GMT

"The visual environment for the young, in short, has become confused, fragmented, and unstable. Students now understand moving but not still images. The long, dreamy, contemplative takes of classic Hollywood studio movies or postwar European art films are long gone. Today's rapid-fire editing descends from Jean-Luc Godard, with his hand-held camera, and more directly from Godard's Anglo-American acolyte, Richard Lester, whose two Beatles movies have heavily influenced commercials, music videos, and independent films. Education must slow the images down, to provide a clear space for the eye. The relationship of eye movements to cognitive development has been studied since the 1890s, the groundwork for which was laid by investigation into physiological optics by Hermann von Helmholtz and Ernst Mach in the 1860s. Visual tracking and stability of gaze are major milestones in early infancy. The eyes are neurologically tied to the entire vestibular system: the conch-like inner ear facilitates hand-eye coordination and gives us direction and balance in the physical world. By processing depth cues, our eyes orient us in space and create and confirm our sense of individual agency. Those in whom eye movements and vestibular equilibrium are disrupted, I contend, cannot sense context and thus become passive to the world, which they do not see as an arena for action. Hence this perceptual problem may well have unwelcome political consequences."

from the essay The Magic of Images

http://www.bu.edu/arion/Paglia_11.3/Paglia_Magic%20of%20Images.htm

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teaching

jacquelineseaquist — Tue, 30 Aug 2005 02:55:03 GMT

"Tutelary relationships are filled with sexual ambiguities. Coleridge calls Wordsworth 'O Friend! my comforter and guide! / Strong in thyself, and powerful to give strength!' But perhaps the teacher is never strong except in the teaching. Perhaps teaching is a kind of vampirism in which mesmerizing assertions of authority drink the energy they arouse."

Camille Paglia, Sexual Personae (1990)