London was a hotbed of dissent and underground activity at the end of the sixties, and when it came to surface it was like burning lava. Miss World 1970 will be remembered not so much for the award-winning beauties but for the rain of stink bombs and leaflets on the Royal Albert Hall stage, and for the banners with which young feminists expressed their rejection of that cattle market. Among the activists, there was one […]
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 […]
