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Attracted / Repelled
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Campy qualities: overdoing gender
Campy qualities: overdoing gender performance


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