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The Art of Cruelty

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by Maggie Nelson


  —TV Ad, 114

  —TV Hijack, 115–16

  —220, 110–12

  Burgess, Anthony, A Clockwork Orange, 125

  Burning Man festival, 18

  Bush, George W., 13, 42, 43, 60, 61, 134, 137, 155

  Bustamante, Nao, Indig/urrito, 87–90

  Butler, Judith, 191, 203

  —Precarious Life, 227–28

  Butler, Octavia, 67, 218

  Cage, John, 105–6, 109

  —“Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse),” 268

  —4’33”, 44, 212

  Califia, Pat, 58

  California, University of, at Los Angeles (UCLA), 116

  Calvin, John, 137

  Cameron, James, 49

  Caouette, Jonathan, Tarnation, 127

  Captivity (Joffé), 55–57, 58, 59–61, 62, 63, 75

  Carr, C., 203

  Carson, Anne, 218

  —Decreation, 262

  —“The Glass Essay,” 74–75

  Carter, Angela, 67

  —The Sadeian Woman, 69, 184

  Carver, Raymond, 218

  Castlemont High School, 187–89

  Caven, Ingrid, 232

  Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 160

  Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), 41–42, 61, 68

  Chavez, Hugo, 134

  Cheney, Dick, 42

  Chomsky, Noam, 58

  Christianity, 3, 4, 109–10, 133–36, 137, 162–63, 171, 172–73, 175–77, 184–85, 200, 206–9

  Clark, T. J., 41

  —The Sight of Death, 45–46

  Cleaver, Eldridge, 243

  Colbert, Stephen, 131

  Coleman, Wanda, 265

  Columbine shootings (1999), 54

  Compton-Burnett, Ivy, 67, 261, 264

  —Parents and Children, 151–55

  Concordia University, 203

  Conradt, Louis, Jr., 34

  Cooper, Dennis, 58, 265

  Cotter, Holland, 255

  Cottingham, Laura, 255, 257

  Creed, J. L., 23

  Croce, Arlene, 85

  Crumb, Robert, 189

  Cullen, Countee, “Heritage,” 247

  Cuthbert, Elisha, 60–61

  Dada, 3, 18, 149

  Daly, Mary, 168

  Danner, Mark, 41

  Danto, Arthur, 99

  Dateline/NBC, 33–34

  Davis, Angela, 69, 70–71

  —Women, Race, and Class, 71

  Davis, Lydia, 218

  de Beer, Sue, Heidi 2, 102–3

  Deleuze, Gilles, 110, 205

  —A Thousand Plateaus, 145

  Demme, Jonathan, The Silence of the Lambs, 82

  Derrida, Jacques, 145

  Despentes, Virginie, 67, 183

  —Baise-Moi, 73

  Dickens, Charles, 192

  Dickinson, Emily, 138

  Didion, Joan, 194, 218

  —The Year of Magical Thinking, 150

  Dillard, Annie, 207, 218

  —For the Time Being, 44

  Dionysos, 21, 22, 101

  Disney, Walt, 178–79

  Divine, 103–4

  Dix, Otto, 189–90, 240

  —“Buried Alive, January 1916, Champagne,” 189

  —Der Krieg cycle, 189

  —“Wounded Man Fleeing—Battle of the Somme, 1916,” 189

  —“Wounded Soldier, Autumn 1916, Bapaume,” 189

  Djurberg, Nathalie, 264

  Dow Chemical, 157–59

  Duras, Marguerite, 218

  Eastwood, Clint:

  —Mystic River, 165–66

  —Unforgiven, 165–66

  Edwards, Jonathan, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” 162–63

  Ehrenreich, Barbara, 68, 69

  Ehrenreich, Ben, “The Bad Mormon,” 95–96

  Eisenstein, Sergei, Battleship Potemkin, 240

  Eliot, George, 192

  —Middlemarch, 193

  Eliot, T. S., “Tradition and the Individual Talent,” 146

  Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 97, 144, 220

  England, Lynndie, 68, 70

  Enlightenment, 170–71, 210–11

  Enright, Brock, 129

  Ephesians, Epistle to the, 208

  Euripides, 137

  Evenson, Brian, 10, 71, 93–96, 105, 112, 214–18

  —Altmann’s Tongue, 93, 94, 169, 215–16, 256

  —Dark Property, 205

  —“Desire with Digressions,” 166–67

  —“The Ex-Father,” 217–18

  —Fugue State, 166

  —The Open Curtain, 166

  —The Wavering Knife, 215, 217

  Export, Valie, 264

  Fanon, Frantz, The Wretched of the Earth, 163

  Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, 103

  —In a Year with 13 Moons, 231–35

  Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), 64

  Federal Communications Commission (FCC), 54

  Finisterra, Jude (pseud.), 158

  Finley, Karen, 81–82, 85–86, 196–97, 264

  —The Constant State of Desire, 86

  —“The Father in All of Us,” 86

  —I’m an Ass Man, 86

  —“Yams Up My Granny’s Ass,” 86

  Finnegan, General Patrick, 64

  Flanagan, Bob, 110

  Fluxus, 20

  Flynt, Larry, 182

  Forde, Shawna, 36

  Foreman, Richard, Unbalancing Acts: Foundations for a Theater, 50–52, 53, 266

  Foucault, Michel, 57–58

  FOX News, 8, 64, 132

  Franco B, 21

  Franklin Furnace, 200

  Freud, Sigmund, 62, 148, 164–65, 168–72, 204, 251, 267

  —“Beyond the Pleasure Principle,” 10–11

  —Civilization and Its Discontents, 172

  Frey, James, 138, 147

  —A Million Little Pieces, 136–37

  F Space Gallery, 110–12

  Fuhrman, Joanna, 140–41

  Furies, 68, 259–60

  Futurism, 3, 19, 22, 67–68

  Gaitskill, Mary, 67, 221–26, 235–38, 264

  —“The Agonized Face,” 236, 250

  —Bad Behavior, 221–23

  —Don’t Cry, 236–38

  —“A Romantic Weekend,” 221–22

  —Veronica, 223–26, 235–36

  Galleria Studio Morra, 76–77

  Genet, Jean, 58, 265

  Gibson, Mel, 185

  —The Passion of the Christ, 177

  Gilchrist, Jim, 36

  Girard, René, 196

  —Violence and the Sacred, 102

  Golden, Leon, 23

  Golden Rule, 109–10, 227

  Google, 29

  Gore, Tipper, 58

  Gospels, 206–7

  Graeber, David, 43–44, 45

  —“The Twilight of Vanguardism,” 4–5

  Graner, Specialist Charles, 68

  Green Lantern (comic), 166

  Greer, Germaine, 22

  Griffith, David, A Good War Is Hard to Find: The Art of Violence in America, 96–97

  Guattari, Felix, A Thousand Plateaus, 145

  Gulf Coast Reconstruction Conference (2006), 159–60

  Habermas, Jürgen, 58

  Hainley, Bruce, 99

  Halle, Howard, 242, 244–45, 247

  Haneke, Michael, 4, 71, 96, 108

  —Fu
nny Games, 25, 263–64

  —The Piano Teacher, 197

  —White Ribbon, 264

  Hansen, Chris, 34

  Harman, Specialist Sabrina, 68

  Hasselbeck, Elisabeth, 42

  Haye, Christian, 201

  Hebrews, Epistle to the, 208

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 121

  Helms, Senator Jesse, 85

  Hemingway, Ernest, 218

  Hersh, Seymour, 41

  Highsmith, Patricia, 67

  Hitchens, Christopher, 42

  Hitler, Adolf, 172

  HIV, 198–99, 250–51

  Hobbes, Thomas, 17

  Hofmann, Irene, 115

  Holocaust, 187–89, 245–46, 256, 257

  Holzer, Jenny, Lustmord, 253–58

  Hooker, Thomas, 135

  Hopkins, Anthony, 56

  Horn, Rebecca, 264

  Horton, Scott, 41

  Housing and Urban Development Department, U.S., 159–60

  Howe, Fanny, 12

  Hsieh, Tehching, 20

  Hub, The, 37–38

  Hudson River Piers, 212–13

  Hughes, Ted, 259

  Hurricane Katrina, 159–60

  Hustler, 182

  Ingraham, Laura, 64

  Ionesco, Eugène, 205, 212

  Iraq War, 29, 31, 39–42, 61, 63, 68–71, 155

  Irigaray, Luce, 168

  Islam, 171

  Jaar, Alfredo:

  —“It Is Difficult,” 26–27

  —Untitled (Newsweek), 26–27, 42

  Jackson, Shirley, 67

  Jacobs, Amber, 168

  Jacobsen, Stine Marie, Do You Have Time to Kill Me Today, 119–20, 121, 125

  Jamadi, Manadel al-, 61, 68

  James, Henry, 222, 246

  —The Portrait of a Lady, 192–95

  —The Turn of the Screw, 113

  James, William, 173

  Jelinek, Elfriede, 67, 264

  —The Piano Teacher, 197

  Jesus Christ, 101, 172–73, 176–77, 196, 197, 206–9

  Jeu de la mort, Le, 35

  Jones, Bill T., Still/Here, 85

  Jouvenel, Bertrand de, 164

  Judith, 68, 71

  Kafka, Franz, 214

  —“In the Penal Colony,” 177–78, 209–12

  Kakutani, Michiko, “Bending the Truth in a Million Little Ways,” 136–37

  Kalman, Tibor, 258

  Kane, Sarah, 67

  Kant, Immanuel, 118, 133

  Kaprow, Allan, 20, 24

  Kaun, Axel, 212

  Kelley, Mike, 107

  —Family Tyranny, 98–101, 103, 105, 106, 187

  —Heidi, 103

  Kent State shootings (1970), 115

  Kester, Grant, 4, 5

  King, Martin Luther, Jr., 187, 199, 204

  King, Stephen, The Running Man, 33, 35

  Kirino, Natsuo, 67

  Klavan, Andrew, 13

  Klein, Melanie, 168, 267

  Klein, Yves, 128–29

  —Anthropometries, 129, 203

  Koestenbaum, Wayne, 49–50, 126

  Korine, Harmony, 265

  Kristeva, Julia, 168

  —The Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection, 169

  Kruger, Barbara, 163

  Kuhn, Thomas, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 206

  Kusama, Yayoi, 264

  —Self-Obliteration, 220

  Kyl, Senator John, 138

  LaBute, Neil, 10, 196

  Lacan, Jacques, 199, 204

  Laing, R. D., Knots, 11–12

  Lane, Anthony, 264

  Lassnig, Maria, 264

  Laura, Heidi, 263

  Lee, Spike, 57

  —Jungle Fever, 243

  Lennon, John, 22

  —“Bed-In,” 19–20

  Levinas, Emmanuel, 191, 227

  Levi Strauss, David, “Take as Needed,” 113

  Lewis, Heather, 58, 67

  Lief, Judy, 209

  Limbaugh, Rush, 63–64

  Linzy, Kalup, All My Churen, 103

  Lionsgate, 58, 59

  Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), 163

  Luke, Gospel of, 206–7

  Lutjeans, Phyllis, 115–16

  Luxemburg, Rosa, Junius Pamphlet, 8

  Luxon, Thomas, 137

  L Word, The, 57

  Lynch, David, Blue Velvet, 96–97

  MacKinnon, Catharine, Are Women Human?, 72

  Malanga, Gerard, 125

  Mamet, David, 196

  Manicheanism, 16, 134

  Manjushri, Bodhisattva, 209

  Mansour, Joyce, 67

  Mapplethorpe, Robert, 53

  Marcus, Greil, 148

  Marcus, Jane, 245

  Marinetti, F. T., 30, 212

  —“The Founding and Manifesto of Futurism,” 19

  Marxism, 24, 148

  Massumi, Brian, 145

  Matta-Clark, Gordon, 212–13

  Matthew, Gospel of, 206, 207

  Mayer, Jane, 41, 65

  McCarthy, Damon, Caribbean Pirates, 107

  McCarthy, Mary, 163, 164

  McCarthy, Paul, 10, 71, 196, 264

  —Caribbean Pirates, 107

  —Family Tyranny, 98–101, 103, 105, 106, 187

  —Heidi, 103

  McCarty, Marlene, 264

  McDonagh, Martin, 71, 261

  —A Behanding in Spokane, 263

  —In Bruges, 263

  —The Pillowman, 91–93, 94, 95, 98, 105

  Medea, 71

  Meirelles, Fernando, City of God, 252–53

  Mendieta, Ana, 10, 78–80, 178

  —Blood Signs I and II, 79

  —Blood Writing, 79

  —Body Tracks, 129–30

  —Mutilated Body on Landscape, 79

  —People Looking at Blood, Moffitt, 79–80

  —Rape Piece, 78, 198

  —Rape Scene, 78–79

  —Silueta series, 220

  —Sweating Blood, 79

  —Untitled (Self-Portrait with Blood), 79

  Messager, Annette, Les tortures volontaires, 75

  Metropolitan Museum of Art, 179, 187, 240–41, 244

  Microsoft, 57

  Milgram, Stanley, 35, 40, 77

  Milstead, Harris Glenn, 104

  Minutemen, 36

  Monk, Ray, 157

  Montano, Linda, Art/Life, 20

  Moody, Rick, 265

  Moody, Tom, 102–3

  Moore, Susannah, 67

  Mormon Church, 71, 93, 95–96, 166

  Morris, Errol, Standard Operating Procedure, 39, 40

  Morrison, Toni, Beloved, 74, 248

  Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), 58

  MTV, 111–12, 252

  Muehl, Otto, 20, 22, 71

  —Kardinal, 228–29

  —O Sensibility, 185

  Mueller, Cookie, 186

  —Walking through Water in a Pool Painted Black, 185

  Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), 75

  Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), 27, 78

  Muybridge, Eadweard, 240

  Myles, Eileen, 197, 218, 264

  Nabokov, Vladimir, Lolita, 95

  Nagin, Mayor Ray, 160

  National Endowment for the Arts et al. vs. Finley et al., 53

  National Organization for Women (NOW), 59–60

  Nazism, 7
1, 187–89, 245–46

  Nelson, deeAnn, 125

  New Testament, 133–34, 206–7, 208

  New York Times, 35–36, 80–81, 91, 136–37, 188–89, 196–97, 255

  Nhat Hanh, Thich, 7

  —Anger: Wisdom for Cooling the Flames, 62–63

  Nico, 126

  Niebuhr, Reinhold, 251

  Nietzsche, Friedrich, 4, 9, 17, 18, 72

  —Beyond Good and Evil, 3

  Nin, Anaïs, 116

  Nitsch, Hermann, 22, 42, 101, 102, 103

  —Six-Day Play, 20–21, 44, 185

  Nixon, Nicholas, 27

  Oates, Joyce Carol, 67

  Obama, Barack, 8, 40–41, 132

  O’Connor, Flannery, 67

  Oedipal complex, 101, 164–65, 168, 169–71

  Old Testament, 133–34, 208

  Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 26

  Ono, Yoko, 22, 88, 264

  —“Bed-In,” 19–20

  —Cut Piece, 76, 77, 79, 129, 198

  Opie, Catherine, Self-Portrait/Pervert, 198

  O’Reilly, Bill, 42, 64

  Orgies-Mysteries Theater, 101

  Orlan, 75

  Paglia, Camille, 17

  Palahniuk, Chuck, Fight Club, 215

  “Palestinian hanging,” 61

  Pane, Gina, 79, 264

  Parents Against Media Violence, 54

  Parnes, Laura, Heidi 2, 102–3

  Pasolini, Pier Paolo, 265

  Peirce, Kimberly, Boys Don’t Cry, 197–98

  Perverted Justice, 34

  Phillips, Adam, 195

  —On Kindness, 174

  —Terrors and Experts, 170–71

  Picasso, Pablo, 46, 138

  Piene, Chloe, 264

  Piper, Adrian, 256

  Plath, Sylvia, 10, 67, 141, 229–31, 239, 241, 249–50, 258–61, 263

  —“Daddy,” 245–46

  —“Elm,” 218, 230–31

  —“Fever 103°,” 180–81

  —“Getting There,” 180, 259

  —“The Jailer,” 259

  —“Lady Lazarus,” 180, 230

  —“Lesbos,” 229–30

  —“The Rabbit Catcher,” 258–59

  —“The Surgeon at 2 a.m.,” 229

  —“Three Women,” 235, 236

  —“Tulips,” 229

  Plato, 22–23, 133

  —Phaedrus, 137

  Plymouth colony, 135–36

  Pollack, Barbara, 199

  POP action, 123–25, 126

  Pope.L, William, 199–204

  —Crawl pieces, 201–3

  —The Hole Inside the Space Inside Yves Klein’s Asshole, 203–4

  —“Hole Theory,” 204

  —How Much Is That Nigger in the Window, 200

  —My Niagra, 200–201

  —Roach Motel Black, 200

  —Tompkins Square Crawl, 202–3

  Poussin, Nicolas, 46

 

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