Sublime

inability to achieve idealized forms of erotic belonging is variously expressed as expectancy, deferral, lack, and as an inability to arrive, achieve, or actualize normative forms of belonging.

none who protested the production of these men as twenty-first century sex deviants, or the almost extralegal management of their behavior by a local news station.9

in working to transform institutions, we generate knowledge about them.

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.

We don’t reinvestigate low culture with the expectation that it will entertain us a second time—the hope is that it will be instructive and revelatory,

Our culture teaches us about Art as a commodity, and celebrity as something that goes along with it. It has little to teach about creativity, the lived process, the reality…

audience, and the producers of the program are all brought into contact with one another, mirroring one another's longings for illicit sex, punitive retribution, and intimacy's failure.

Readers are not always resistant; all resistant readings are not necessarily progressive readings; the “people” do not always recognize their conditions of alienation and subordination.