… Entrevista a Pilar Bonet Quizás porque en gran medida el sentimiento contemporáneo se polariza entre el augurio apocalíptico y el más profano descrédito, llaman hoy especialmente la atención aquellas mentes que se sintieron tocadas por lo sagrado y no se doblegaron ante nada que obstaculizara su revelación. La historiografía ha tenido que desempolvar viejos tomos, releer la obra de artistas y eruditos renacentistas a la luz tenue de sus saberes herméticos, o reconocer que […]
… An interview to Pilar Bonet Perhaps because to a large extent the contemporary feeling is polarized between apocalyptic predictions and a profound disenchantment, nowadays we are especially attracted to those minds that had been touched by something sacred and that did not submit to anything that would hinder their revelations. The historiography has had to be revised, re-read the work of artists and Renaissance scholars under the dim light of their hermetic knowledge, or […]
El libertinaje sí, pero supeditado a un férreo control. Arquitectos, reformadores y literatos del siglo XVIII coinciden en proyectar o imaginar casas del placer inspiradas en el panóptico de Bentham o anticipándose a su configuración radial, vigilante: la ciudad ideal concebida por Ledoux (en la que no falta un templo para la educación sexual, el Oikema) se construye alrededor de ese ojo central; en Los 120 días de Sodoma, Sade da forma semicircular al salón […]
Licentiousness, yes, but subject to tight control. Architects, reformers and literati of the eighteenth century coincide in projecting or imagining houses of pleasure inspired by the panopticon of Bentham or anticipating its radial and controlling configuration: the ideal city conceived by Ledoux (in which could not be absent a temple for sex education, the Oikema) is built around that central eye; In The 120 days of Sodom, Sade gives semicircular form to the hall of […]
