400 Degreez Of Erotic Funk

400 Degreez Of Erotic Funk

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400 Degreez Of Erotic Funk
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What is (if there is) a difference between erotic economies, sexual economies and economies of desire?

What is (if there is) a difference between erotic economies, sexual economies and economies of desire?

A metabolized annotation On The Introduction Chapter From "Black Sexual Economies"

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Ashley S
Oct 31, 2024
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This is a metabolized version of the things I highlighted, wrote in the margins or commentary that I made in notes while reading some literature. Bad bitch always in some source material. Some thoughts will be incoherent or unresolved. While others are resting at some form of peace. This Substack will consist of these for a while.

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The introduction chapter of Black Sexual Economies does some of the heavy lifting for my studies that I need. I am currently asking for wisdom that answers the question: “What is (if there is) a difference between erotic economies, sexual economies and economies of desire?”. Laying out the framework for the collection of essays, the introduction to Black Sexual Economies : Race and Sex in a Culture of Capital cites Adrienne Davis’ previous working as making an explicit connection between concepts that are commonly and falsely separated into public or private relations. The link that’s made threads though: (a.) tasks performed by people, (b.) systems where people exchange goods and services and (c.) the monetarily, socially, or politically profit from taking advantage of someone’s sexual vulnerability.

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