Perversity Think Tank attempts to formulate a philosophical conception of sexual perversion. In this it is the black mirror of one of the most famous texts in the history of philosophy. Plato's Symposium sought to answer a simple question: What is love? Perversity Think Tank begins from an equally simple but darker place: What is perversity? Necrophilia, pedophilia, bestiality, feederism, voyeurism, fetishism -- how is it possible to abstract a single category of sexual behavior from so many unusual and often sordid proclivities? What does a flasher or a groper have in common with, say, the willing "victim" who undertook with a cannibal to cook and eat his own genitalia? Perversity Think Tank dissects a wealth of examples drawn from literature, art, individual experience, and real-world incidents reported on the blog PervScan.com. However, far from being a "book of the blog," Perversity Think Tank utilizes PervScan the way Freud did his case histories. It serves as a research laboratory for the entirely new vision of perversion presented in the book. And whereas a blog is typically improvisational in tone, like a lab note, Perversity Think Tank is a taut, deeply considered analysis. Like Supervert's previous works, it makes full use of an arsenal of techniques -- non-linearity, juxataposition, erasure -- derived from vanguard aesthetics. The result is not only a novel approach to perversion but a new sort of work that is simultaneously philosophy, literature, and heck knows.
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Creator of books, web sites, and multimedia, Supervert is what an author can be when amplified by technology. A sort of deviant Bauhaus, Supervert utilizes the techniques of vanguard aesthetics to research the pathology of novel perversions. V. Vale of Re/Search has called Supervert's book Necrophilia Variations (2005) a "book to fend off the darkest, dourest, most insomniac Night Thoughts... definitely recommended by us." Lydia Lunch's Sex and Guts Magazine hailed Supervert's first book, Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish (2001), as "one of the most astonishing books to come out in years." Wired has described Supervert's multimedia as a "torture garden of earthly delights," while the Village Voice spoke of it as a "home-brew monstrosity" promoting "an emerging philosophy: user hostility." Supervert is also the creator of PervScan.com, a heavily trafficked blog devoted to perversion, as well as web sites dedicated to William S. Burroughs (RealityStudio.org) and to Charles Baudelaire's Flowers of Evil (fleursdumal.org).
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At his third book, Supervert has come a long way through the swamp of sexual perversion. Taking a philosophical position towards the things that make conventional society go "ewww" or cause public outrage, Supervert examines what makes the perv tick, what is perversity exactly, what makes it seem so taboo. If you look at the animal kingdom, many of the things that we humans condemn such as rape and polygamy are natural, while we label these "perverse," "disgusting," a vice instead of a virtue (to reference the Marquis de Sade); but isn't repressing those natural impulses perverse in itself? Is celibacy perverse? These are just some of the questions he raises and that have my mind thinking long after I finished this wonderful book which is told in Supervert's usual style of juxtaposing philosophy with the kinky, examples from literature, other philosophers and art serve the book well. If you have to read at least one alternative book that turns on the intellect then pick up Perversity Think Tank, your brain will mentalgasm.
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Supervert is an obscure author with strange topics, but they never fail to bring a smile on my face. Totally strange and bizarre, written to make you shake your head in wonder. I do have to wonder how many of my friends actually read this books when I pass them around...or if people are more on the concerned side for my reading material.
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