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== Reading List
== Notes on Beauty Queens ==
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Ambivalence:
 
Raw emotions / Staged emotions
 
Attracted / Repelled
 
Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance
 
Repressive system
 
Candidates have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc
 
Moment of extreme joy on image cropped out turns into something else as if these woman are about to experience something horrible
 
Reference to Elisabeth Bronfen on the Diva: Diva vs Celebrity - the celebrity known through images through media (photo and TV), she embodies arbitariness and exchangebility of celebrities. The diva embodies great passions and oscilates between symbolic and real body.
 
21.11. - make selection and try sizes and paper
try more of the voyeuristic images without context
 
Ine: Bataille on ecstasy
 
 
 
== Reading List from University of Amsterdam==
 
[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/happiness/ Stanford entries: Happiness]
[http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/happiness/ Stanford entries: Happiness]



Latest revision as of 19:39, 5 December 2016

Notes on Beauty Queens

Ambivalence:

Raw emotions / Staged emotions

Attracted / Repelled

Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance

Repressive system

Candidates have to be unmarried, no children, not pregnant etc

Moment of extreme joy on image cropped out turns into something else as if these woman are about to experience something horrible

Reference to Elisabeth Bronfen on the Diva: Diva vs Celebrity - the celebrity known through images through media (photo and TV), she embodies arbitariness and exchangebility of celebrities. The diva embodies great passions and oscilates between symbolic and real body.

21.11. - make selection and try sizes and paper try more of the voyeuristic images without context

Ine: Bataille on ecstasy


Reading List from University of Amsterdam

Stanford entries: Happiness

Stanford entries: Well-Being

Stanford entries: Pleasure

Hedonism

Altruism and Group Selection