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🗓️ 23 July 2024
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What do sex scenes in the film have to do with the crushing weight of capitalism? How have our bodily desires and passions been ambushed, commodified, and exhausted by the constant, catastrophic impacts of a system that alienates as it extracts? How have we been trained to conflate consumption and activism under neoliberalism, so that the very act of consuming limits our political aspirations and actions? And why the hell are there so few sex scenes in cinema these days?
These are just some of the questions we explore in this episode as Robert reads a beautifully-written and wide-reaching piece by friend of the show Carlee Gomes (co-host of the podcast Hit Factory): “The Puritanical Eye: Hyper-mediation, Sex on Film, and the Disavowal of Desire.”
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0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Robert here. |
0:02.0 | Welcome back to another Patreon episode where I'll be doing another reading. |
0:07.0 | I am really, really excited for today's reading. |
0:11.0 | It's by a comrade and good friend who I'm constantly learning from and who I have a great |
0:17.2 | deal of intellectual respect for. You may recognize her from our episode on capitalist realism, |
0:25.0 | Carly Gomes of the podcast hit factory. |
0:29.0 | I've actually been meaning to read this piece by Carly for a very long time now so I'm really |
0:34.8 | excited to finally be getting to it it's titled the Puritanical I |
0:41.2 | hypermediation sex on, and the disavowal of desire. |
0:47.3 | And so right there, I think you can already tell that this is going to be a really, really |
0:50.7 | interesting reading and so the piece was published I believe last year in |
0:55.7 | November and I'll link to the piece as usual in the show notes but before we get |
1:02.1 | started please make sure that you follow Hit Factory, follow |
1:06.7 | them on Twitter, sign up for their Patreon. Carly and her co-host Aaron are really you know not just really great people but they have |
1:15.5 | such awesome conversations about 90s films and the politics of those films on the podcast so I couldn't really recommend it anymore. |
1:25.7 | If you're looking for a good starting point, my absolute favorite episode, honestly not even |
1:31.6 | just a hit factory but like this might be one of my favorite |
1:35.0 | podcast episodes ever their conversation with Aaron Thorpe of the Trillbillies on |
1:40.6 | the film The Matrix Reserections which no it's not a 90s film you're probably |
1:46.1 | thinking that to yourself but it is sort of part of a film series that began in the 90s |
1:51.1 | and it's a continuation of a certain conversation. |
1:54.2 | So I think we can kind of, you know, we can kind of just think of that one as a bit of an |
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