libidinal

The political dimension of the text is thus articulated in libidinal language; in Equiano's abolitionist intervention, his life story, the political is personal.

The State of Things: Olaudah Equiano and the Volatile Politics of Heterocosmic Desire 2006

Thus, both groups of youth can assume an antiestablishment posture, reject the regimented life of work and conformity, prefer immediate pleasure to the notion of future security, and thereby, assume a life style characterized by libidinal, passive-aggressive gratification.

Clinical Work with Adolescents Judith Marks Mishne 1986

Though partly a parody of pretentious post-show "talk-backs," one senses a sincerity in Gillette's weariness with the "libidinal" aesthetic Dyer advocates.

Gothamist 2008

There is a central question that provides a guiding thread through François Cusset's far ranging and intellectually challenging investigation into the reception of "French Theory" in the United States: how is it that "around the beginning of the 1980s, right when the works of Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Derrida were being put to work on American campuses and in some alternative communities as the theoretical foundation for a new type of politics, those very names were being demonized in France as the epitome of an outdated 'libidinal' and leftist type of politics"?

Continental Philosophy 2008

There is a central question that provides a guiding thread through François Cusset's far ranging and intellectually challenging investigation into the reception of "French Theory" in the United States: how is it that "around the beginning of the 1980s, right when the works of Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Derrida were being put to work on American campuses and in some alternative communities as the theoretical foundation for a new type of politics, those very names were being demonized in France as the epitome of an outdated 'libidinal' and leftist type of politics"?

Continental Philosophy 2008

There is a central question that provides a guiding thread through François Cusset's far ranging and intellectually challenging investigation into the reception of "French Theory" in the United States: how is it that "around the beginning of the 1980s, right when the works of Foucault, Deleuze, Lyotard, and Derrida were being put to work on American campuses and in some alternative communities as the theoretical foundation for a new type of politics, those very names were being demonized in France as the epitome of an outdated 'libidinal' and leftist type of politics"?

Continental Philosophy 2008

German settlers were similarly split over “primitive” and libidinal dancing.

A Renegade History of the United States Thaddeus Russell 2010

Instead, he's turned to studies in space, volume and illusion, with paintings whose libidinal charge throbs in trompe l'oeil views of fabric folds, razor slits, holes and intrusive wooden flutes.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

There's the tireless dissector of reality TV culture, video artist Gillian Wearing; king of libidinal bodily performance art Matthew Barney; and Tom Burr, an artist with a gift for drawing out the latent sex appeal of art, buildings and fashion.

This week's new exhibitions 2011

It's the force that propels well-behaved little Philip Roth from the comfy suburban confines of "Goodbye, Columbus" to the libidinal jungle of "Portnoy's Complaint."

Wisecracks as Wisdom Steve Almond 2011