Sadeian Research Coalition Presents: Ambulatory Intercommunication Contrivance

To assist with neccessary communications during fieldwork I created the following device in order to allow such missives to be sent through the aether to be received instantaneously by others. (In response to many questions, yes it does work :) )

How times change

... to men. Anyway... I had a look at the books I was wandering about ( Backlash wasn't there: neither was Virginia Woolf, neither was Ibsen. On the other hand, they did have Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman , which I always had a special fondness for), then drifted off to find The Spirit Level, which I would really like to read. I drifted here, I drifted there, I gathered a few books that I ...

yeah, well.

... of reason. In this most insulting mythic redefinition of myself, that of occult priestess, I am indeed allowed to speak but only of things that male society does not take seriously. I can hint at dreams, I can even personify the imagination; but that is only because I am not rational enough to cope with reality. " -from The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography , by Angela Carter

Soledad Miranda in Eug

...marathon of Soledad Miranda movies at the moment. All of which I’ve seen before, but all of which are well worth seeing again. Eugénie de Sade is Jess Franco arguably at his most Sadeian, a perverse tale of a young woman and her stepfather bound together by the erotic fascination of power, sex and murder. This is perhaps her finest acting performance. In fact overall it’s probably Franco...

Part II of Alan Moore on pornography

... its most intelligent. Taking some inspiration from Simone de Beauvoir’s influential essay Must We Burn Sade?, the wonderful and greatly-missed Angela Carter muses on porn in her book The Sadeian Women, finally suggesting that there might be some form of pornography yet undiscovered, glorious and liberating, unencumbered by the inequalities of sex and sexuality that dogged it in the past. Even ...

Alan Moore on pornography

... to be expected in an outcast and despised field without quality control of any kind. A Sadeian passion for deflowering or else for uncritically depicted rape intruded nastily into some narratives, ... of small boys in early twentieth century Germany and Austria, apparently, this form of Sadeian sexual torture during childhood would produce the famously well-balanced generation of young Übermenschen ...

.... “ Pornographic writing ” for Carter “retains this in common with all literature—that it turns the flesh into word . This is the real transformation the text performs upon libidinous fantasy” ( The Sadeian Woman 13, italics my own). As female re-visionists, both writers are heavily indebted to words, as they are the source of their literary, sexual and social revolution. Furthermore, both ...