PanEroticism

This volume was first published by Inter-Disciplinary Press in 2015. PanEroticism asks the question, just what does it mean for something to be erotic? Located only momentarily between perceiver and perceived, any definition of eros is necessarily relative and contingent, personal and ephemeral. In trodding and charting the erotic's manifold corners and planes, bodies and members, surfaces and firmaments, the chapters within this volume reveal the polysemy of eros. They examine the erotic potential not only in bodies and practices but in music and voices, objects and spaces, sights and textures, words and ideas. Through divergent meditations, all carry the reader to the same place of wonder, totality, uncertainty and, dare one say, arousal. As your own critical valences carry you through the pages of this compilation, we invite you to reflect upon the implications herein for the erotic in your research and writing, your practice and play. What, in other words, arouses you?