६ सप्टेंबर, २००७

About that architecture.

Given my history of writing about symbolic representations of the female anatomy and even, specifically, vulviform architecture, I'm getting a lot of email about this picture Glenn Reynolds posted yesterday. But he's talking about that Instapundian thing: outer space. Over here, we've got other things to talk about.

१८ टिप्पण्या:

अनामित म्हणाले...

Well, sure, there’s outer space, inner spaces, structures that explore those spaces and those that enclose them. What’s Freudian about that?

Synova म्हणाले...

That's pretty much my first reaction to that picture. Sort of an, Um, you have looked at this haven't you?

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Paglia denies there's a vulvaform. She says female genitals on the contrary are essentially architecturally chaotic.

That fits with Emmanuel Levinas's account of the erotic, where nothing must ever terminate in coming to light ; it keeps the male in search mode. (Totality and Infinity, Appendix B, The Phenomenology of Eros)

Ron म्हणाले...

As I emailed Mr. Reynolds...it looks more like a Klingon toilet seat!

Daryl म्हणाले...

I think it was inspired by the head of Jar Jar Binks

comatus म्हणाले...

Silly geese. It's the hood ornament from a Studebaker Hawk.

amba म्हणाले...

"Virgin" Galactic, no less.

amba म्हणाले...

Paglia denies there's a vulvaform. She says female genitals on the contrary are essentially architecturally chaotic.

Typical male worship from that man wannabe. All those tropes that implicitly or explicitly compare the intellect to the phallus are a riot.

amba म्हणाले...

She wishes she had been born crested not cloven.

Ruth Anne Adams म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Steve Burri म्हणाले...

I just finished a post discussing George Will's article 'Lessons from the Doomed Edsel'. Talking about vulviform architecture... the 1958 Edsel!

rhhardin म्हणाले...

Four Edsel radio ads, via Jean Shepherd, via www.flicklives.com extracted here

michael farris म्हणाले...

"Paglia denies there's a vulvaform"

Sometimes it takes a really smart person to come up with the stupidest thing you've ever heard.

Have her look at this an analyze it as anything but .... you know ...

blake म्हणाले...

As if phalluses were all as uniform as the prevalence of the adjective "phallic" would make it seem. (It's longer than it's wide, right?)

Organic shapes are irregular. That doesn't mean they can't be abstracted.

Unknown म्हणाले...

I don't get it.

Ruth Anne Adams म्हणाले...
ही टिप्पणी लेखकाना हलविली आहे.
Galvanized म्हणाले...

Or, Ruth Anne, how about -- Althouse: The Go-To Vulvi-Forum? *snort*

Conserve Liberty म्हणाले...

My wife drove a Vulva wagon for years.