Wednesday, June 16, 2010
A materialist transubstantiation posted by Richard Seymour
“In sex you swallow maybe a quart of someone else’s spit. Sorry to be indelicate, but you do. It is the stream of want and need and hunger and fantasy and curiosity you plug into when you plug into a partner who knows what it is to kiss. Friction is dry and friction in sex can be very nice but sooner or later you want Flow, you want the juice in the berry; sex may begin arid, cool and delicately perfumed but it will end up floating saltfunky in a tidal pool. At any other time spit’s nasty, but when you kiss it is… well, nectar, nepenthe, gone over from spit to nepenthe in a transubstantiation more divine than that accomplished in any Holy Mass.”
| — | Tony Kushner, ‘Fick Oder Kaput’, in Thinking About the Longstanding Problems of Virtue and Happiness, Theatre Communications Group, 1995 |
Labels: hysterical materialism, Literature, sex, socialism, tony kushner
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Thursday, September 27, 2007
Kushner posted by Richard Seymour
Charlie Rose is a dickhead, Kushner is a terribly soft liberal, yet this is worth watching:Kushner's politics are no longer marxist these days, but he is sufficiently irritating that his co-written script for Spielberg's film, Munich, annoyed the neocons. He pretended, understand, that the Palestinians were somehow human. His Kabul/Homebody wound up the bomb-Afghanistan crowd because, well, it pretended that the people of Afghanistan were something other than cave creatures. Oh sure, he's with the 'vote Dem or lose dem' wing if American politics, but he is far from unique on that front. If you haven't seen 'Angels in America', do so. The political riffs are the least of it: it is the musical samples, the wit, the handling of damaged, desiring human beings, the meeting between Roy Cohn and his spiritual nemesis, that will engage you. Here is some of Angels in America to start you off:
Labels: angels in america, palestine, tony kushner, US imperialism
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