Slog - Comments on Erotic Tower http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower The top feature on Arcspace is about this marvelous tower: A comment I made not too long ago: "That breakage of rhythm, that "subversive edge," as Roland Barthes calls it in The Pleasure of the Text, gives us a bliss that's frankly erotic. Barthes writes: "The subversive edge may seem privileged because it is the edge of violence; but it is not violence which affects pleasure ... what pleasure wants is the site of a loss, a seam, the cut, the deflation, the dissolve which seizes the subject in the midst of bliss." The new Hearst Tower in Manhattan also... Copyright 2008 Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:07:48 -0800 Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:08:57 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Orson To find the soul of a building you have to go inside the damn thing. Looking at the photos, the interiors of Hearst Tower appear to be spectacular, moving, and....okay, sensual.

That exterior tower? Well, pretty corny. It wil probably grow on us over the years like the SF Transamerica has. But don't confuse pretty photos of buildings that no human ever sees for the architecture.

]]> Orson http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478480 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478480 Arts Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:44:25 -0800 Comment by snapper TLDR. I like that they kept it real on the bottom floors though.

]]> snapper http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478493 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478493 Arts Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:17:46 -0800 Comment by Arch Critic Rumor is that one of our local developers is talking with Foster about designing a tower here in Seattle.

]]> Arch Critic http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478506 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478506 Arts Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:51:03 -0800 Comment by please People are over-thinking this way too much. It's just a glass and steel building like any other office building. So this one has diamond-shaped windows instead of rectangular windows. Big deal.

]]> please http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478559 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478559 Arts Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:16:50 -0800 Comment by him I saw this tower in NYC a few weeks ago. It definitely stands out from the rest and I thought was interesting to look at. But it didn't quite arouse me sexually. It's near Times Square, so maybe if that area was as seedy as it once was, it would be more arousing.

]]> him http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478886 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/10/erotic_tower#c478886 Arts Fri, 20 Oct 2006 13:08:57 -0800