scholarly journals Bluetooth Orgasms

2022 ◽  
Vol 37 (71) ◽  
pp. 143-160
Author(s):  
Marilia Kaisar
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Sex Toys ◽  
Intimate Encounters ◽  
Sexual Body

Bluetooth-operated sex toys penetrate and are penetrated by the human body, leaving code behind. This article analyzes the relationships that develop between bodies and Bluetooth-operated interactive sex toys. Resembling the pods and portals of David Cronenberg’s film eXistenZ, interactive sex toys allow us to consider how technologies relate intimately to the sexual body. I use Massumi’s work on virtuality and affect theory as a starting point from which to frame embodiment, virtuality, and the circulation of affects. Further, I consider the importance of embodiment and the translations of intensities and vibrations through digital coding among the open sexual body, the technology of the sexual machine, and the applications that foster those connections, in the context of Bluetooth-operated sex toys. This article advocates the need to consider intimate encounters between interactive sex toys and bodies as complex technological and biological assemblages, where vibrating machines and the human body’s flesh come into intimate connection through datafication.

‘I saw a knock-out’: Fatness, (In)visibility, and Desire in Shallow Hal

Somatechnics ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jackie Wykes
Keyword(s):  
Female Body ◽  
Fat Body ◽  
Western Culture ◽  
Embodied Experience ◽  
Knock Out ◽  
Dominant Meaning ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Female Bodies ◽  
Fat Bodies ◽  
Sexual Body

When the Farrelly brothers' movie Shallow Hal (2001) was released, one reviewer suggested that the film ‘might have been more honest if [it] had simply made Hal have a thing about fat women’ ( Kerr 2002 : 44). In this paper, I argue that Kerr hits the mark but misses the point. While the film's treatment of fat is undoubtedly problematic, I propose a ‘queer’ reading of the film, borrowing the idea of ‘double coding’ to show a text about desire for fat (female) bodies. I am not, however, seeking to position Shallow Hal as a fat-positive text; rather, I use it as a starting point to explore the legibility of the fat female body as a sexual body. In contemporary mainstream Western culture, fat is regarded as the antithesis of desire. This meaning is so deeply ingrained that representations of fat women as sexual are typically framed as a joke because desire for fat bodies is unimaginable; this is the logic by which Shallow Hal operates. The dominant meaning of fatness precludes recognition of the fat body as a sexual body. What is at issue is therefore not simply the lack of certain images, but a question of intelligibility: if the meaning of fat is antithetical to desire, how can the desire for – and of – fat bodies be intelligible as desire? This question goes beyond the realm of representation and into the embodied experience of fat sexuality.

Pietas and Victoria: the Emperor and the Citizen

1943 ◽  
Vol 33 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. P. Charlesworth
Keyword(s):  
Causal Connection ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
American Scholar ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Look Back ◽  
Roman People ◽  
It Success

In dealing with so wide-ranging a subject, a remark of an American scholar, Mr. Hoey, on the intimate connection between the titles pius, felix, and invictus provides a convenient starting-point.The first observation I would make is to call your attention to the consecutive (and almost causal) connection of these adjectives : because the Emperor is pius the gods will render him felix (for felicitas is their gift to their favourites) and his felicitas is best demonstrated in his being invictus. Nearly every nation of antiquity believed and hoped that its gods would bring it success : the Roman People, with seven centuries of expansion and increasing power to look back on, were convinced that their scrupulous attention to the due performance of the proper rites had won them this success, that their pietas had secured to them victoria; if the Emperor could be termed pius felix invictus, it was because he summed up and incarnated there the Roman People.

scholarly journals Sonifying the Shape of Human Body Motion using Motiongrams

2013 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Refsum Jensenius ◽  
Rolf Inge Godøy
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Video Recording ◽  
Visual Display ◽  
Human Motion ◽  
Visual Similarity ◽  
Body Motion ◽  
Auditory Displays ◽  
Musical Sound ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Spatial Shape

<p class="author">The paper presents sonomotiongram, a technique for the creation of auditory displays of human body motion based on motiongrams. A motiongram is a visual display of motion, based on frame differencing and reduction of a regular video recording. The resultant motiongram shows the spatial shape of the motion as it unfolds in time, somewhat similar to the way in which spectrograms visualise the shape of (musical) sound. The visual similarity of motiongrams and spectrograms is the conceptual starting point for the sonomotiongram technique, which explores how motiongrams can be turned into sound using &ldquo;inverse FFT&rdquo;. The paper presents the idea of shape-sonification, gives an overview of the sonomotiongram technique, and discusses sonification examples of both simple and complex human motion.</p>

Fall

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adriano D’Aloia
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Homeostatic Process ◽  
Found Footage ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Contemporary Cinema ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Film Experience

A common outcome of acrobatics, and a motif often combined with it, is the fall. The chapter ‘Fall. Descent to equilibrium’ discusses the recurrence of the motif of the falling human body in contemporary cinema, taking as a starting point Oliver Pietsch’s found footage film Maybe Not. Relying on Torben Grodal’s application of the notions of telic and paratelic to the film experience, referring to the use of cinema as metaphor for the mind proposed by Antonio Damasio, and interpreting several experiments on the perception of movement in film sequences whose temporality is manipulated, this chapter describes the modality through which cinema ‘regulates’ the fall by adopting a homeostatic process that reduces its traumatic character and, at the same time, enhances its expressive effectiveness.

Horror body as a bodily manifestation of visibility: 87 ore by Costanza Quatriglio

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-114
Author(s):  
Laura Cesaro
Keyword(s):  
Primary School ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Human Body ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Film And Television ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Narrative Mode

Abstract Taking as a starting point the recent surge in film and television narratives constructed around and by surveillance technologies, as a metaphor of an omnipotent observation and dystopian motif in narrating a political and cultural change, this article aims to probe how surveillance movies suggest complex phenomenological dynamics in the relationships between body and device. While recent contributions on surveillance films (Kammerer 2004) focus on the practice of body control as a narrative mode, as an image and a show (Léfait 2013; Zimmer 2015), recent sociological contributions on surveillance recognize the destruction and annihilation of body placed under the aegis of the Great Eye (Haggerty 2011; Murakami Wood 2011). This article examines Costanza Quatriglio's film 87 ore: Gli ultimi giorni di Francesco Mastrogiovanni (2015) to describe the transition from bodies as narrative object to de-naturalizing the human body. The film narrates the night of 4 August 2009 when Mastrogiovanni, a 58-year-old primary school teacher, dies after 87 hours of agony following imprisonment. The film, in the canon of 'reality cinema', consists of 75 minutes of mechanical images recorded from above.

scholarly journals Pornohealing: Pornography as a healing process for individuals with a history of sexual violence

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (Winter) ◽  
pp. 216-231
Author(s):  
Sonia Patrinou
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Harassment ◽  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Queer Theory ◽  
Healing Process ◽  
Affect Theory ◽  
Contemporary History ◽  
Erotic Film ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Spectator

By taking as a starting point “The Clit List,” a pornographic database that includes porn material addressed to individuals who have experienced sexual harassment(s) and/or assault(s), this essay brings forward the following question: can pornography take the form of a healing process for individuals with a history of sexual violence? In order to provide an answer, alternative uses and aspects of pornography will be explored, with a particular focus on queer, feminist, and ethical porn. Following the contemporary history of pornography, I engage with both Queer Theory by discussing queer feminist approaches to porn, but also Affect Theory by sharing queer feminist approaches to trauma and the potential healing that an (erotic) film can induce in the spectator. More than simply seeking for alternative aspects of porn, this essay accounts for the (re)introduction of pornography as a productive media with a sexual healing possibility.

To travel to suffer: towards a reverse anthropology of the early modern colonial body

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Keyword(s):  
South America ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Intercultural Dialogue ◽  
Cultural Imagination ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Colonial Body ◽  
A Site

By focusing on the way early modern plays staged these colonial encounters, this contribution will address the question of the enslaved body which functioned as a site of both cultural exoticism and compassionate identification, directly dealing with complex issues such as pain, cruelty and martyrdom. This chapter will take two specific texts as its starting point: the fascinating play Les Portugais infortunés (1608) by Nicolas Chrétien des Croix, which stages an encounter of a shipwrecked Portuguese crew with an indigenous African tribe, and La Peinture spirituelle (1611) by Louis Richome, the account of the massacre of 39 Catholic martyrs from the ‘Compagnie de Jésus’, murdered by Protestants, on their way to Brazil on the 15th of July in 1570. In both cases the human body functions as a spectacular locus of intercultural dialogue (or warfare). This chapter proposes an analysis of both texts, not as literature in the first place, but as artefacts of cultural imagination which question the idea of alterity and the all too easy dichotomy between the self and the other, while at the same time showing that Europe, Africa and Brazil (or by extension South America) share a history and a culture of the (hurt) body.

Tomorrow's Doctors: Students' Satisfaction with a Prosection-Based Undergraduate Anatomy Course

2012 ◽  
Vol 94 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-4
Author(s):  
D Overbeck-Zubrzycka ◽  
A Krishnan ◽  
D Hamilton ◽  
RF Searle ◽  
G Stansby
Keyword(s):  
Medical Students ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Junior Doctor ◽  
Undergraduate Curriculum ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Future ◽  
Students Satisfaction ◽  
Modern Era ◽  
Privacy Issues ◽  
Anatomy Teaching

The undergraduate curriculum is the starting point for the doctors of the future. It should provide a strong foundation for learning and practice as a junior doctor and beyond. In the modern era, anatomy teaching, as with all other areas of the curriculum, has needed to be tailored to fulfill this outcome effectively. Traditionally, anatomy has been taught by a method based on dissection of the human body. Dissection of the human body during an anatomy course raises questions about invasion of privacy, issues of introducing dying and death appropriately to medical students as well as issues of cost and practicality. These issues have been the subjects of much debate.

scholarly journals A Taxonomy of Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Wearable Robots: An Expert Perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 3229-3247
Author(s):  
Alexandra Kapeller ◽  
Heike Felzmann ◽  
Eduard Fosch-Villaronga ◽  
Ann-Marie Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Human Body ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
Intimate Connection ◽  
Wearable Robots ◽  
Human Motor

AbstractWearable robots and exoskeletons are relatively new technologies designed for assisting and augmenting human motor functions. Due to their different possible design applications and their intimate connection to the human body, they come with specific ethical, legal, and social issues (ELS), which have not been much explored in the recent ELS literature. This paper draws on expert consultations and a literature review to provide a taxonomy of the most important ethical, legal, and social issues of wearable robots. These issues are categorized in (1) wearable robots and the self, (2) wearable robots and the other, and (3) wearable robots in society.

scholarly journals How to apply Asimov’s first law to sex robots

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-170
Author(s):  
Carlotta Rigotti
Keyword(s):  
Legal Reasoning ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Sexual Freedom ◽  
Sex Robots ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Sex Toys ◽  
Academic Debate

AbstractSex robots may be surfacing in recent controversy, but they are certainly not a novelty in the academic debate. However, given the lack of legal reasoning in this field of research, this article aims at examining the balancing of the fundamental rights involved in the sex robots’ manufacture and usage, taking Asimov’s first law as the main starting point and with an eye to a future lawmaking process. Specifically, Section 1 gives a brief overview on how to define sex robots, while distinguishing them from sex toys and pornography. Section 2 interprets Asimov’s first law in order to apply it to sex robots. Section 3 develops a pertaining legal reasoning based on competing fundamental rights, i.e. the user’s sexual freedom and the manufacturer’s freedom of enterprise versus the gender dignity and right to equality. Finally, the conclusions review the main findings and address considerations to policymakers.

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