I was gooning for 7 hours listening to Bjork then saw this pop up on my notifications. My thing went soft but I listened and learned a great deal. You have great wisdom! Love Paglia too.

@jesusgonzalez-acton8045

2 ай бұрын

This is basically the sort of comment I’d expect on a Paglia-related video lol

@user-ob1uy8tt9b

2 ай бұрын

Dasha or Anna?

@maxkasmr

2 ай бұрын

@@user-ob1uy8tt9b Dasha all the way.

@Never_Know_Best

2 ай бұрын

Same brother

@thiagonunes4294

Ай бұрын

🤣🤣mate

I started watching this video with no intention of reading this book in the foreseeable future, and somewhere in the middle found myself ordering it on Amazon and nudging it into my priority reading list... That's the power of a wonderful book reviewer!

I discovered this channel a couple of years ago when I started getting sober, and was trying to replace addiction with culture. My life's in a better place now, I'm a much better reader, and if anyone can sell me on this book it's you. Thanks man.

When you said "Sex Passion Violence Death... I mean she is Italian" I lost it.

I'm a lurker of your channel, and while I may not read many of the books you talk about, I adore how much you respect each author--and their point of view and opinions. Keep up the phenomenal content.

@ListwithLaRock

2 ай бұрын

Agreed 💯 and Ditto 🙏🏼 I fantasize about being an avid, well rounded, reader someday.. 📚 📖📚 books stacked everywhere w an impressive personal library! 😍😜🤓

Pleasantly surprised you're doing this. i read this book last year on a whim and its easily one of the best ive ever read.

@bigtux11

2 ай бұрын

Horror geek checks out. If books had genres like movies or were adapted into them, Sexual Personae would be THE horror film of all horror films.

This has been my desert island book since 2009. Paglia changed my way of thinking and analyzing. Her other books are also brilliant. I got to meet her in Chicago while she promoted her book Glittering Images and she asked to see my marked up copy of Sexual Personae. When she saw how highlighted the chapters on Oscar Wilde are she profusely thanked me, saying they were her favorites.

@Never_Know_Best

2 ай бұрын

That Wilde chapter is wonderful.

Wow so glad you made a video on this! It’s been on my TBR

Yes!! So glad you are doing a read-along on this book which has been on my list for months. I'm about to write a dissertation on the interplay between Dionysian/Apollonian forces in certain decadent horror literature so really could not have come at a better time for me. Thank you for the great high-quality content as ever.

Literally the only person who is making me want the Patreon videos fr

Your channel just get better, like wine

really enjoyed this one, deffo going to check out this book at some point

Rushed through the first 200 pages and fell off because of how mindblown I was by the sheer content gateway it was...I intend to pick it back up now and follow along, hoping it will break it up for me and be more digestible. I feel one aspect of paglia's individualistic ideology is in direct conflict with her understanding of nature and the feminine chaos element which is innately a collective and not a single entity, so why is it that she doesn't claim a collective mindset for the human race, but this could just be surface level observations from someone who hasn't read the whole book, so I'm excited to see where else she takes it all. It most certainly is still one of my all time favorite works to end up in my hands.

Thank you for posting. This book changed my life, particularly her insights about synchronicity and astrology.

Cool that you made a video on this! I was planning to read this soon. Though Camille Paglia irritates me, her weirdo sexual academic analysis of art and literature interests me.

I'm so excited for this series, I've been putting off reading sexual personae for YEARs I never got past the fist couple chapters

I didn’t expect this!

I find this definition of Western culture as "Judeo-Christian" very strange. Hellenic-Christian culture is much more appropriate. Judaism has always been a closed culture and treated marginally in the West (unfortunately perhaps). Analyzing the history of Spain is especially relevant in this case.

I don't understand most of it but I love your eloquence.. thank you

Well u finally goaded me into your patreon

St Petersburg - Ha! Cool 😎 I Reside in Clearwater - just up the road! I'll check out your sponsor "Ageless Literature"- great name, BTW! You're very interesting.. I'm intrigued w your creativity, how well versed you are w literature, how well edited your videos are, you possess such a broad vocabulary (which likely comes from reading so many books?), & an incredibly unique + seemingly very successful KZread channel! 🥰🥰🥰 You GO!

I have read this book since the early 90s......many times....one of my favorites...

Oh damn, I saw a clip of her breaking down the artistry in Star Wars Episode 3

re: 14:22 there is a passage in an essay (what she calls the "canceled preface" of Sexual Personae) in Sex, Art, & American Culture where Paglia refers to the vomitorium as the exits of the coliseum. If I remember correctly, around the page where she describes watching her Italian family members take 20 minutes to say their farewells at parties.

I thought the same Re: Gaspar Noe and Roadhouse's impacts. I want McGregor in a Noe film 😂

This is so exciting

I love her and this book-the Wilde chapter is fantastic-but I’m not sure I’ll ever finish it. Too many novels on the bucket list I’d need for context lol

This book changed the way I think about everything.

Great review of a complex book. But you didn't mention the author who is Paglia's source for lore about the Great Mother, murderous nature goddesses of the early fertility religions, creation myths, Babylonian mythology, etc.: Erich Neumann. Erich Neumann is generally considered Carl Jung's most brilliant student. Read his book "The Origins and History of Consciousness," and he will instantly parachute you into the world of Aztec human sacrifices, chthonian fertility religions, Osiris/Horis/Set mythology, Hero mythology, etc. In others of his books ("The Fear of the Feminine," "Amor and Psyche") he analyzes Greek and Roman myths. Paglia credited Neumann's two main books ("The Origins & History of Consciousness" and "The Great Mother") with inspiring "Sexual Personae." "Origins & History" is definitely the more readable of the two; "The Great Mother" is a bit dry and theoretical. Paglia gave a lecture on Neumann in 2005. It's an academic address and not particularly stirring, but it gives some background on Freud, Jung, and Neumann. It's linked here: www.bu.edu/arion/files/2010/03/Paglia-Great-Mother1.pdf

46 minutes!! Wow!

She’s incredible. Maybe wrong more times than she’s right but always thought provoking

Would love to see Camille Paglia and Slajov Zizek debate each other

You might be interested in Contrapoints new video on Twilight. She mentions Paglia and her book a few times.

@CalliAMusic

2 ай бұрын

ContraPoints is the GOAT ❤ love her

@jesusgonzalez-acton8045

2 ай бұрын

Nah he should check out Red Scare or Bronze Age P’s many riffs on Paglia

21:07 kind of random but where I live there's an enormous wildlife refuge swamp, and I go kayaking out there, and parts of it is like a water prairie, the water is waist or chest deep, no trees, but lots of lilly pads and saw grass and stuff, so the horizon is really opened up since any treeline is over a mile away, so the sky is immense, but the water of the swamp is black and still and so forms a perfect mirror on a windless day, so the sky is reflected in its black murk, black from the acids of all the decaying vegetation underneath. We have lotus flowers that bloom. One of the most beautiful flowers in the world. I discovered that the lotus is a religious symbol in Buddhism, because its root grows in the dark chthonic muck and the flower penetrates the clear air of light, white and pure. These two worlds inseparable

26:31 Hello sir. Who is baduoi? Idk how to spell the name of whoever you’re referencing to look them up. Do you mean Bataille?

In Paglia’s Sex art and american culture it is the uncut prologue for sexual personae, it wasnt only one page at all haha.

would you please read/ review tyll?

On board.

My theory is this book influenced the film, 'The Big Lebowski'. 1999..

@bigtux11

2 ай бұрын

How so?

Neuromancer is good but confusing, and I think it's on purpose. :)

You should watch Camille paglia and Jordan Peterson talk in their interview. Nice video. Also you are confusing the words comprise and compose.

I think I was so busy being myself that I’ve never heard of or come upon most things she referencing?? I just don’t know of them or about them or care to? Maybe I live in oblivion.

She didn’t learn English as a second language. Paglia explains at length that her parents chose to speak English at home, and that she believes she would not have such mastery of the English language if they didn’t.

@BetterThanFoodBookReviews

Ай бұрын

You're correct. Yes I recall the part you're referring to but misremembered while making the video. Thank you for catching that, I've made the edit.

Darkness is the all mother. "Yahweh never calls, never writes and never remembers mother's day" 😈 Hi mom!

♥

Was stoked to read this until I found out the author is a libertarian. Hard pass.

@DeepsInvisible-we1kh

2 ай бұрын

Why do you reject Paglia and her writing on the grounds that she’s a libertarian? Of course you’re entitled to do so without explanation, but since you’ve announced this here I’m wondering if you’ll elaborate.

@alexrosenberger4692

2 ай бұрын

@@DeepsInvisible-we1kh It's the ideology of racist teenage edge-lords everywhere. Most people grow out of it by the time they're out of high school. Elon Musk is libertarian, that should tell you plenty. For a look at how it works in practice, Javier Milei's is currently devastating Argentina with libertarian "shock therapy" economic policies, the poverty rate there is currently 57 percent.

@JordyC-rc9ij

17 күн бұрын

Well, not by any means a libertarian but better that than the far right wing republicans! At least they largely booed Trump a few days ago!