“For Zola, as for Huysmans, nature itself is uncanny because it is the domain of the feminine, a domain that is constitutionally defective, lacking, even pathological.” NatureFeminineDecadenceUncannyPathologyDecadentEmile ZolaJoris Kerl Huysmans Author:Charles Bernheimer
“The strategic problem is, of course, that simulacra are reassuring only when viewed from outside. They do not provide an existential model for how to be in the world. One can appreciate the brilliance of the embalmer's work, but one would not want to be its object.” EmbalmingSimulacra Author:Charles Bernheimer