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• In Media Res
  Re: Love's Paradox

  Risk.

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Monday, March 30, 2015 — 8:42 pm

  Thanks for this, Kal. The paradox you're describing between love's presence in enunciation versus in unarticulated feeling–and, as you put it, in the illumination/diminishment involved in enunciation–seems to point to the risk inherent, even cen ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Love's Paradox

  Yes: an asymptotic sort of

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Tuesday, March 31, 2015 — 1:38 pm

  Yes: an asymptotic sort of relation to love, while depressing, totally makes sense. ...
• In Media Res
  Re: We So Seldom Look on Love in Porn

  In private.

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Tuesday, March 31, 2015 — 2:44 pm

  Karly-Lynne, I really admire your reading of this clip–particularly of the tension between imagining that love, like sex, can be shown, and the audiovisual product which leaves so much unseen/unheard. I wonder, maybe to pick up on Adam's comment, wha ...
• In Media Res
  Re: My Heart Only Loves Once: Only Lovers and the Long(est) Term Relationship

  Love and economy.

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Thursday, April 2, 2015 — 1:13 pm

  Thanks for this, Adam. I'm particularly taken with your suggestion that the abandoned factory presents another outmoded "relationship." I agree that speed and duration both alter perception in such a way that an intangible like love can see ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Love as Generalized Competition in 28 Hotel Rooms

  Double lives.

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Saturday, April 4, 2015 — 4:11 pm

  Adam: your provocative reading makes me think of two films: TAKE THIS WALTZ, which you mention, and LAST NIGHT (which is actually great). Both participate in the fluid, almost Eat, Pray, Love self-reevaluation through sexual/romantic dalliance I think you ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Not Shock, But Confirmation: Rape as Ordinary Horror

  RE: Questioning

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Thursday, May 8, 2014 — 2:16 pm

  Thanks so much for your comment, Adam, and also for the pleasure of contributing to this week’s conversation. A few things: regardless of how it is/can be shown onscreen, I don’t see rape as belonging to a category of extreme imagery as I do, say, flaying ...
• In Media Res
  Re: Not Shock, But Confirmation: Rape as Ordinary Horror

  Hi Tanya–thanks so much for

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Saturday, May 10, 2014 — 5:30 pm

  Hi Tanya–thanks so much for asking; I should also say that my sense of how rape appears and functions in genre cinema is very informed by your work on the subject, particularly on rape (as) fantasy in PUBLIC RAPE, so thank you for that as well. Carol Clov ...
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  Re: Extreme Action at the Limits of Endurance

  Consensual torture

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  Veronica Fitzpatrick University of Pittsburgh

  Friday, May 9, 2014 — 2:15 pm

  Really interesting, Adam. I'm wondering–following your comment to me, and momentarily leaving aside the variable of pornography–whether you consider this a torture film? If we think about torture as, say, extracting truth from the body, it seems like ...