Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom

vital force affecting and affected by transformations in, most obviously, sexual mores, as well as the politics of representation and the growth of network cultures.

Recognizing the power of the erotic within our lives can give us the energy to pursue genuine change within our world, rather than merely settling for a shift of characters in the same weary drama.

Everything in this economy revolves around girls: How good the club is. How good the promoter is. How much money he can make. How much wealth and power the clients are perceived to have. And how much money they will spend.

When I speak of the erotic, then, I speak of it as an assertion of the lifeforce of women; of that creative energy empowered, the knowledge and use of which we are now reclaiming in our language, our history, our dancing, our loving, our work, our lives.

Intimacy, again, is a set of normative ideals and aspirations tied to achieving capital and corporeal achievement;

Sensuality and sexuality play roles.