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WIFENESS: GONADAL EXEGESES IN THREE or FOUR PARTS/ Part Three: THE MYSTICAL CITADEL of UXOR

Steven Augustine

Chris Frantz, founding drummer of the defunct Talking Heads, is known for his uxoriousness. “Uxoriousness” is defined as “Overt devotion or submissiveness to one’s wife”. I’m “uxorious” to the extent of my devotion to my Wife, though I wouldn’t describe myself as “submissive” to anyone. Who knows if Chris Frantz is submissive to his wife, Tina Weymouth (former bassist of the defunct Talking Heads), but I do know that his uxoriousness is of a complicated kind, and also that it’s making a kind of charmingly gallant ass of him. “Without Tina Weymouth, Talking Heads would have been just another band,” … Continue reading WIFENESS: GONADAL EXEGESES IN THREE or FOUR PARTS/ Part Three: THE MYSTICAL CITADEL of UXOR

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WIFENESS: GONADAL EXEGESES IN THREE or FOUR PARTS/ Part Two: HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU: AN EXISTENTIALLY BIOLOGICAL CRITIQUE of LARS VON TRIER’S NYMPHOMANIAC VOL l and VOL ll and ITS MAKING

Steven Augustine

“To look is to sometimes also forget that one is seen.”  — Pastor Prime PART TWO:  HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU: AN EXISTENTIALLY BIOLOGICAL CRITIQUE of LARS VON TRIER’S NYMPHOMANIAC VOL l and VOL ll and ITS MAKING (part one is HERE) Danish film director Lars Von Trier was fit and okay-looking in the 1980s and 1990s. Von Trier’s appearance has degenerated profoundly as he has aged.  This is standard for humans, though the degree of degeneration varies wildly depending on a cluster of factors. Accepted standards in Art Criticism tend to cause critics to shy away from plugging biographically body-based … Continue reading WIFENESS: GONADAL EXEGESES IN THREE or FOUR PARTS/ Part Two: HERE’S LOOKING AT YOU: AN EXISTENTIALLY BIOLOGICAL CRITIQUE of LARS VON TRIER’S NYMPHOMANIAC VOL l and VOL ll and ITS MAKING

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WIFENESS: GONADAL EXEGESES IN THREE or FOUR PARTS/ Part One: Wives of the Wifeless Future

Steven Augustine

PART ONE:  WIVES of the WIFELESS FUTURE/ BLADE RUNNER 2049: an ANALYSIS “David Hume, the greatest skeptic of them all, once remarked that after a gathering of skeptics met to proclaim the veracity of skepticism as a philosophy, all of the members of the gathering nonetheless left by the door rather than the window. I see Hume’s point.” –Philip K. Dick, How to Build a Universe That Doesn’t Fall Apart Two Days Later . . Phil called me not too long after the wedding to ask for my help again. “You need to fix her.” “Fix who, Phil?” “My wife, … Continue reading WIFENESS: GONADAL EXEGESES IN THREE or FOUR PARTS/ Part One: Wives of the Wifeless Future