Georges Bataille’s “Story of the Eye,” 1928
“I grew up very much alone, and as far back as I recall I was frightened of anything sexual.”
A Response to Adam Lehrer’s “Art’s Moral Fetish”
What’s objectionable for Lehrer is that the products of the culture industry transmit a comfortable (numbing) attitude towards reality as opposed to an “ambiguous” or “critical” one, which art formerly laid claim to.
Art’s Moral Fetish
The art that casts a critical eye towards our society in its totality, or even just employs ambiguity to inspire criticality in its viewers, is met with skepticism, if not hostility.