Status Updates From Sex, Art, and American Cult...

No specialization, classes should cover 50 years, English learning builds off of shakespeare

Criticism of Foucault. Academic system should be generalized

Dislikes Lacan/French deconstruction of high culture. Pop culture. rebellion of 60s leads to ruin. Foucault copied Durkheim

American graduate education has department structure broken down and separated. Faculties secularized. No true expertise in humanities without bowing all of the humanities

New criticism = systematic investigation to inner life of work. Earnest. Needs historical learning and conceptual reasoning

Sixties people did not survive graduate school

Happening indebted to Foucault. Foucault 17th-19th century France


1. homosexuality exists pre Chadwdock. Athens homosexuality based on aesthetics
2. Hormones. Boy spiritually superior and western tradition gay cult of beauty
3. Heroes and pals
4. Prostitution stigmatized in general
5. Diorima

Criticizes Foucault for cluelessness outside of 19th 20th French

East vs West. Asia more popular, India less. Skepticism over culture and behavior of immigrants. Commonalities in culture = desire to reduce self in different ways. West more individualistic in art, upbringing, social perspective. east more collective, reserved, family oriented, etc

Robert Mapplethrope: offensive photography. But fortunately not flattened like Keith Harding?

Anita Hill remarks: skepticism and accusations of careerism would not be acceptable today.

Madonna: popular today for a few songs and at World Cup. Open sexuality less shocking because of pornography but people more sensitive to “male gaze.” Not of comedic slant (Sabrina carpenter) or riot grrrl feminism (Olivia Rodrigo)

Rock purely social diversion and indie realms. No longer subversive open genre. Realm of self-conscious highbrow artists. The Strokes Julian son of modeling agency