#otherness

[themonstrousother-moved]

The Contemporary Gothic, Catherine Spooner

[epifaniacintilante]

Do you think there's something wrong with me?

Raffaella Cerullo and Otherness

My Brilliant Friend (2018-2024) // Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave, Those Who Stay // Barbara Creed, The Monstrous Feminine

[alixanderkrex]

Essays on the "Gothic" "The Grotesque", "Monstrous", "Otherness" and a general deeper dive into all:

Chaos Incarnate: The Paradox of Grotesque Corporeality

The Grotesque in American Literature: Origins and Peculiarities

Rough Notes on Ruskin’s Idea of the “Grotesque,” and the Gothic in the Postmodern Age

Grotesque images and carnival culture in the tradition of Ovid

My Proper Flesh": hybridity and the grotesque in Renaissance landscape design

The Cult of the Monstrous: Caricature, Physiognomy, and Monsters in Early Modern Italy

The Logic of Grotesques in Renaissance Art: Marian Figuration at the Limits of Representation

Paradigms of Renaissance Grotesques

C. Pavel, ”Political monsters in Greek art”, in: E. Wolff (ed.), Monstres et monstrosités, de l’antiquité à nos jours, en Occident et en Orient, L’Harmattan, Paris 2022, 67-80.

Jessica Maratsos, Review of The Grotesque in Western Art and Culture: The Image at Play, by Frances S. Connelly

Rejecting and Embracing the Monstrous in Ancient Greece and Rome

Introduction: Monster Theory and Classical Myth

Beauty and the beast: art and its passion for the beautiful, the ugly, and the sublime

How to Look at Monsters: Staging Female Bodies from the Periphery of the Seventeenth-Century Spanish World in Baroque Portraiture and Hapsburg Collections

The Body Re-Imagined: The Bizzarie di Varie Figure and Performative Cycles of Prints in Seventeenth-Century Florence

Domestication in the Theater of the Monstrous: Reexamining Monster Theory

"The Grotesque and the French Revolution," in: Rudi Risatti, Stefan Hulfeld, Andrea Sommer (eds.), Grotesk! Ungeheuerliche Künste und ihre Wiederkehr (Vienna: Hollitzer 2022), 211–233 [Uncorrected Proofs]

"Geo-bio-politics of the Gothic: On the Queer/Inhuman Dislocation of Spanish/English Subjects and their Others (For A Definition of Modernity as an Imperialist Geobiopolitical Fracture)." 1616: Anuario de literatura comparada 4 (2014): 153-67.

Rethinking hybrid 'monsters': how notions of 'self' versus 'other' and the ordering of chaos in Renaissance conceptual frameworks led to the transformation and decline of the grotesque decorative form and the radical marginalization of the Mexican codex

Monstrous Encounters: Feminist Theory and the Monstrous

(PDF) Missing Links and Non/Human Queerings: an Introduction

Monsters and the Monstrous: Ancient Expressions of Cultural Anxieties

(I am in no way saying I believe everything in any of these because I haven't even had the chance to read all of these, I simply found them interesting upon skimming and thought I'd share for anyone else interested in reading these sorts of things. While I might not agree with everything of any writer etc, peoples, I think it's still a fascinating thing to explore deeply any perspective, especially one different from my own in some ways. I will make a separate post on some of my fav quotes on the topics from my skimming of them later and attach it. Please do feel free to make this a conversation and share your own favorite quotes, posts, etc expressions in general on the topic. Thank you!)

[zegalba]

Cocteau Twins: Otherness (1995)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Eye On Axis :: @eyeonaxis :: A cup of tea somewhere in Iran | Unknown photographer

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“Humans are tuned for relationship. The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears, and nostrils—all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness.” ― David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-Than-Human World

[child-of-earth-and-starry-heaven]

“Foreign to Olympus, a stranger coming to the city from the mysterious landscapes of the sea, the mountains, or the east, Dionysus, the god who subverted the traditional structures of the sacrifice, was at the same time the privileged son of Zeus, the first cousin of the king of Thebes — his native city — and the god who offered to man the possibility of establishing the most intimate communication with the sacred by means of enthusiasm and possession. The very being of Dionysus is the focal point of all of the important contradictions which human reason is unable to bear alone: between identity and otherness, presence and absence, imagination and reality, the absolute and nothingness, power and fragility, life and death, eternity and transition. An irruption of the sacred into the world, of the miracle at the heart of day-to-day life, of the irrational in the center of the city, he is the very paroxysm of tragic tension.”

—Jean-Pierre Darmon, from Mythologies by Yves Bonnefoy (translated by Wendy Doniger)

[leonardospoetry]

"And this is what I learned: that the world’s otherness is antidote to confusion, that standing within this otherness—the beauty and the mystery of the world, out in the fields or deep inside books—can re-dignify the worst-stung heart."

Mary Oliver