Robert W. Jones II

Issue 4.5 Previous Issues

Everybody Wants Some: Sexual Energy and the American Avant-garde

Robert W. Jones II October 30, 2015 No Comments Aleister Crowley Alexandra David-Neel Allen Ginsberg American culture American literature Anais Nin artistic production avant-garde literature avant-gardism Beat Literature Buddhism Carole Tomkinson filmmaking Jack Kerouac Jack Parsons Kenneth Anger L. Ron Hubbard Lenore Kandel Marjorie Cameron Peter Orlovsky religion rituals Rober Hans Van Gulik Robert De Ropp sexuality Thelema Tibet W. Y. Evans-Wentz

Despite the ideals of freedom espoused by Americans a prudish attitude toward sex and sexuality pervades public discourse. From victim blaming to slut shaming, America is simultaneously enthralled and enraged by sex. This complex attitude has been one of the driving forces of avant-garde thought throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries…

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Issue 2.2 Previous Issues

Somaesthetics and Literary Criticism

Robert W. Jones II March 26, 2013 1 Comment aesthetic experience Alexander Technique Alfred Korzybski American Pragmatist philosophy body body-mind-language collage cut-up texts cybernetics experimental literature Feldenkrais method Moshé Feldenkreis neuroscience perception Richard Shusterman semantics somaesthetics W. Grey Walter Wilhelm Reich William S. Burroughs Zen meditation

As literary scholars we are often bending and stretching our frame of reference looking for a new lens with which to examine texts to provide fresh insight and unique views. We beg, borrow and steal ideas from…

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