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OverexposedSylvère Lotringer

Overexposed

1988177 pages
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A report on the administration of deviant desire in specialized clinics that documents the way our postmodern society exposes sexuality to the point of overexposure. The most perverse perversions are not always those one would expect. Originally conceived as an American update to Foucault's History of Sexuality, Overexposed is even more outrageous and thought-provoking today than it was twenty years ago when first published by a commercial publisher. By a strange reversal, rather than being punished, deviant desire now is administrated in specialized clinics under medical…

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3 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2007
    Semiotext(e) · 213 pages · 9781584350453
  • Paperback · English · 1990
    Paladin · 177 pages · 9780586088739
  • Hardcover · English · 1988
    Pantheon Books · 177 pages · 9780394561707
ParaphiliasPsychologySex crimesSex offendersSex therapySexual deviationArt, philosophy