February 7, 2013
Top, photograph by Victor Burgin, from the series Zoo 78, 1978. Via. More. Bottom, production still from Gerontophilia, directed by Bruce LaBruce, 2013. — Human experience is based on ‘timeless time’ and ‘space of flows’ to use [Manuel] Castells’s formulation. Through electronic communication networks, human experience becomes detached from time and place. Individuals can communicate instantly across the globe. Unprecedented volumes of information are transmitted worldwide at a high speed. And as Barney puts it, the network society is ‘always on.’ Where people are geographically located becomes less important as their embeddedness in communication flows. Christine Monnier, Network Society or Surveillance Society, 2011. — Hence the metaphysical importance of hotels. Their walls, beds, comfortably upholstered chairs, room-service menus, televisions, and small, tightly wrapped soaps can do more than answer a taste for luxury; they can also encourage us to reconnect with our long-lost sexual selves. There is no limit to what a shared dip in an alien bath tub may help us to achieve. We may make love joyfully again because we have rediscovered, behind the roles we are forced to play by our domestic circumstances, the sexual identities which first drew us together — an act of fresh perception which will have been critically assisted by a pair of toweling bathrobes, a complimentary fruit basket, and a view out of a window onto an unfamiliar harbour. Alain de Botton, The Obstacles To Sex, 2013. Via.

Top, photograph by Victor Burgin, from the series Zoo 78, 1978. Via. More. Bottom, production still from Gerontophilia, directed by Bruce LaBruce, 2013.

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Human experience is based on ‘timeless time’ and ‘space of flows’ to use [Manuel] Castells’s formulation. Through electronic communication networks, human experience becomes detached from time and place. Individuals can communicate instantly across the globe. Unprecedented volumes of information are transmitted worldwide at a high speed. And as Barney puts it, the network society is ‘always on.’ Where people are geographically located becomes less important as their embeddedness in communication flows.

Christine Monnier, Network Society or Surveillance Society, 2011.

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Hence the metaphysical importance of hotels. Their walls, beds, comfortably upholstered chairs, room-service menus, televisions, and small, tightly wrapped soaps can do more than answer a taste for luxury; they can also encourage us to reconnect with our long-lost sexual selves. There is no limit to what a shared dip in an alien bath tub may help us to achieve. We may make love joyfully again because we have rediscovered, behind the roles we are forced to play by our domestic circumstances, the sexual identities which first drew us together — an act of fresh perception which will have been critically assisted by a pair of toweling bathrobes, a complimentary fruit basket, and a view out of a window onto an unfamiliar harbour.

Alain de Botton, The Obstacles To Sex, 2013. Via.

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