%0 Book %A Florence Dee Boodakian %D 2021 %C New York, United States of America %I Peter Lang Verlag %T Resisting Nudities %B A Study in the Aesthetics of Eroticism %U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1104627 %X This provocative book re-conceives the erotic and its imaginative manifestations as an aesthetic ultimately driven by the disruption of desire. Critical, philosophical, and erotic texts construct a framework for understanding the aesthetics of eroticism including a «resisting nude» grounded in a theory of absence and the psychosocial dynamic of physical and mental surveillance. Resisting Nudities offers a necessary link between the poetry of jouissance and the revolt of body and mind intrinsic to the erotic, at a key moment in our contemporary cultural landscape. Written through a poetic lens, it is a creative new analysis of what George Bataille called the most intense of human moments. %K Ästhetik, Nacktheit, Erotik, Gender Study, Pop Culture, Cultural study %G English