{"id":110591,"date":"2017-05-05T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T12:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=110591"},"modified":"2017-05-05T10:50:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T14:50:12","slug":"its-not-really-porn-until-theres-modern-furniture-in-it-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2017\/05\/05\/its-not-really-porn-until-theres-modern-furniture-in-it-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Not Really Porn Until There\u2019s Modern Furniture in It, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_110592\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cushions.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-110592\" class=\"wp-image-110592\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cushions.jpg\" width=\"1000\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cushions.jpg 1559w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cushions-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cushions-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/cushions-1024x738.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-110592\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Still from <i>We Don\u2019t Embroider Cushions Here<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Last week, it came to light that the Eames lounge chair, that sleek mainstay of midcentury design, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architecturaldigest.com\/story\/costco-is-selling-eames-lounge-chair\" target=\"_blank\">is for sale at select Costco locations<\/a>. I was all set to force my way, stark raving mad, through doorbuster-style hordes of Eames fanatics. Then I saw the price tag: $3,900\u2014apparently a handsome discount, but still too dear for me. So I had to settle instead for <em>We Don\u2019t Embroider Cushions Here<\/em>, a photo book featuring a different, but equally iconic, chaise longue, the venerable Le Corbusier LC4. But this book, compiled by Augustine and Josephine Rockebrune, doesn\u2019t just have pictures of furniture. That would be boring. Instead, as Claire Voon explains, it features stills from adult films in which people are fucking on the LC4: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/hyperallergic.com\/373847\/the-porn-cameos-of-a-chaise-lounge-co-designed-by-le-corbusier\/\" target=\"_blank\">Designed in 1928 and now attributed to\u00a0Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand, the LC4 champions relaxation, with a frame capable of reclining at any angle<\/a>. This, perhaps, is what may make\u00a0it a popular prop for sex, along with the fact that you can\u00a0customize an order\u00a0in buttery full-grain leather, seductive pony or cow skin, or luscious beige canvas upholstery \u2026 [The book] is over 200 pages of twenty-first-century\u00a0nude or scantily clad women kneeling on the chaise in black pleather stilettos, chained and roped to it, or bent over its innovative, chromed tubular steel frame. At times, no one\u2019s on the chair at all; it is but a humble emblem of refinement lurking in a corner amidst the wild, hold-no-bars action unfolding\u00a0around its approximately $4,000 frame. But set in this context\u2014where it\u2019s difficult to ignore for its bold, undulating\u00a0form\u2014it embodies\u00a0the power dynamics between men and women, and it stands\u00a0as an enduring reminder of Le Corbusier\u2019s privilege and gendered dismissal of a mind stirring with as much creativity\u00a0as his own.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>While we\u2019re looking at porn, here\u2019s Frederick McKindra on his desire for white guys\u2014which may or may not be, he writes, a viable form of protest against whiteness. Porn bears him out on this: \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/frederickmckindra\/does-desiring-white-guys-make-me-a-traitor-to-my-race?utm_term=.nqXdmeM9Q#.lcOGP2ndy\" target=\"_blank\">I just went and sulked by looking at Rogan Hardy videos on HarlemHooksup.net<\/a>. Hardy is the undisputed King of Race-Baiting Black Bottoms; when his white tops call him \u2018nigger,\u2019 he just grins through his glazed lips. Videos like these shored up what I knew: that my own sexual desire for white men was born of a drive to destabilize power. I hoped my willing submission as a black man would challenge what white lovers thought they knew about me, and undermine the assumptions they had about black men\u2019s innate aggression. Processing what it meant to abdicate to power, to survive it, to transfigure it, was useful to me. I\u2019ve never had a relationship with a white person, friendship or otherwise, innocent of this dynamic. I feel affirmed, sometimes haughty, at how adroitly I look at whiteness. The complaints from white guys in my life\u2014that I shouldn\u2019t racialize things all the time, that they never look at themselves this way\u2014only compounds my glee.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>J. D. Daniels went on a two-thousand-mile road trip to Lebanon, Kansas, the center of the contiguous forty-eight states. On his way, he stopped in Concordia, Kansas, named after Boston Corbett, the guy who killed John Wilkes Booth: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.esquire.com\/lifestyle\/a54552\/road-trip-center-of-america\/\" target=\"_blank\">It seems Corbett&#8217;s personality was not well structured<\/a>. He had, for example, been so concerned as a young man about the management of his sexual urges that he\u2019d cut off his testicles with a pair of silver sewing scissors. And the national attention focused on him in the wake of killing Booth drove him madder still. Corbett moved to Concordia and dug a hole, and he lived in that hole until he died \u2026 The ancient Egyptians were correct: There is another world beneath this one, a spirit world called the Duat, where Amon-Ra\u2019s sun chariot rides unseen while we face the dark of night. The truth of that world is this: When Booth killed Lincoln, Booth became shadow president of the United States. When Corbett killed Booth, the man who had killed the man who had been the president, Corbett became the president. President Booth kills the Lincoln-father, Corbett kills the Booth-father, and then Corbett crawls into a dirt hole in Concordia. Until 1894, the year it is assumed Corbett died, the president of the United States lived like a rabbit in a hole in the center of the country.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Amy Waldman considers the broader meaning of Trump Tower in New York\u2019s crowded canyons of high-rises: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/news\/smoke-and-mirrors-sixteen-views-of-trumps-glittering-fifth-avenue-dream-9945125\" target=\"_blank\">Like many megalomaniacs, he saw himself as an artist, with real estate as his medium. The power was nothing, he said in a\u00a0<em>60 Minutes\u00a0<\/em>profile in 1985. It was the \u2018creative process\u2019 he loved<\/a> \u2026 Trump didn\u2019t make Manhattan safe for the wealthy\u2014they were already there\u2014but he made it hospitable for the crass: the kleptocrats and oligarchs and criminals who eventually found their way to Trump Tower and buildings like it. From the start, Trump sold his Tower as a residence for a new generation of Astors and Whitneys. The reality, as the\u00a0<em>Voice<\/em>\u2019s Wayne Barrett wrote, was that Trump Tower\u2019s first residents were as likely to be Medicaid cheats and mobsters. He anticipated so much of what Manhattan would become: the ostentation and phallic reach, concentrated along 57th Street; the leveraging of public money for private gain; the barely occupied pieds-\u00e0-terre and tax havens for wealthy foreigners.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>This is supposed to be a literary website, and I\u2019ve blown the whole roundup talking about porn, wealth, and assassins, so here\u2019s Jon Michaud on Samuel Beckett\u2019s <em>Watt <\/em>to calm you down: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/second-read\/the-alternative-facts-of-samuel-becketts-watt\" target=\"_blank\">The product of a brilliant mind reckoning with the brutal caprices of fascism, the novel now feels like much more than a curious entry in the Beckett canon<\/a>. At its core, it\u2019s an investigation into the fallibility of reason, an attempt to reckon with obscured truths and alternative facts \u2026 Beckett\u2019s stylistic extravagance has a purpose: it illustrates the desperate lengths people can be pushed to by powers that behave arbitrarily, indifferent to human suffering. Watt is helplessly, pedantically logical\u2014a kind of dimwitted Mr. Spock. To the contemporary reader he displays more than a few autistic traits, including a love of routine and repetition, and difficulty relating to others on an emotional level. His sanity is also in question. We are told early in the novel that Watt hears voices, \u2018singing, crying, stating, murmuring things unintelligible in his ear.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s roundup: modern furniture cameos in porn; J.D. 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