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Counterpleasures takes up a series of literary and physical pleasures that do not appear to be pleasurable, ranging from saintly asceticism to Sadean narrative to leathersex. Each is placed in its cultural context to unfold a history of transgressive pleasure and to argue for the value and power of such pleasures as resistant to more totalizing forms of power.

Pleasure. --- Sadomasochism. --- Asceticism. --- Ascetical theology --- Contempt of the world --- Theology, Ascetical --- Christian life --- Ethics --- Algolagnia --- Algophilia --- BDSM (Sexual behavior) --- Masochism, Sexual --- S & M (Sadomasochism) --- S and M (Sadomasochism) --- S/M (Sadomasochism) --- Sadism, Sexual --- Sado-masochism --- Sexual masochism --- Sexual sadism --- Psychosexual disorders --- Leather lifestyle --- Masochism --- Sadism --- Sexual dominance and submission --- Emotions --- Senses and sensation --- Utilitarianism --- Happiness --- Hedonism --- SADOMASOCHISM --- PLEASURE --- ASCETICISM --- PSYCHOLOGY --- PHILOSOPHY --- Sadomasochism --- Pleasure --- Asceticism --- Psychology --- Philosophy

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Luckily for human diversity, we are perfectly capable of desiring impossible things. Failing Desire explores a particular set of these impossibilities, those connected to humiliation. These include the failure of autonomy in submission, of inward privacy in confession, of visual modesty in exhibition, and of dignity in playing various roles. Historically, those who find pleasure in these failures range from ancient Cynics through early Christian monks to those now drawn by queer or perverse eroticism. As Judith Halberstam pointed out in The Queer Art of Failure, failure can actually be a mode of resistance to demands for what a culture defines as success. Karmen MacKendrick draws on this interest in queer refusals. To value, desire, or seek humiliation undercuts any striving for success, but it draws our attention particularly to the failures of knowledge as a form of power, whether that knowledge is of one body or of a population. How can we understand will that seeks not to govern itself, psychology that constructs inwardness by telling all, blushing shame that delights in exposure, or dignity that refuses its lofty position? Failing Desire suggests that the power of these desires and pleasures comes out of the very realization that this question can never quite be answered.

Failure (Psychology) --- Shame. --- Humiliation. --- Emotions --- Guilt --- Losing (Psychology) --- Psychology --- Fear of failure --- Success

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Querying Consent examines the ways in which the concept of consent is used to map and regulate sexual desire, gender relationships, global positions, technological interfaces, relationships of production and consumption, and literary and artistic interactions. From philosophy to literature, psychoanalysis to the art world, the contributors to Querying Consent address the most uncomfortable questions about consent today. Grounded in theoretical explorations of the entanglement of consent and subjectivity across a range of textual, visual, multi- and digital media, Querying Consent considers the relationships between consent and agency before moving on to trace the concept's outcomes through a range of investigations of the mutual implication of personhood and self-ownership.

Age Of Consent --- Consent (Law) --- Law --- Age of consent --- Consent (law)