COSEY COMPLEX
AA 110
acousmatic tradition 62, 63
activity, and passivity 125
Adorno, Theodor W. 28-29
see also Horkheimer, Max
Agamben, Giorgio 53
aggression 27,33
Albuquerque, New Mexico 109, 110
Anti-psychiatry movement 28
architecture 89-90
Aries, Philippe, Centuries of Childhood 48
Aristotle 59
Arkestra 56
asemantic effect 25, 29, 33-34
Ashbery, John 48
Ashley, Robert, She Was A Visitor 116, 117
Auckland Zoo, McDonald's Rainforest 41
autobiography 91
autonomy 33
Badiou, Alain 32
Ballard, J. G.
The Atrocity Exhibition 92
Crash 92
Banks, lain, The Wasp Factory 92
BBC 91
Belfast 21
Benjamin, Walter 27-28
'On Surrealism' 27
Passagenwerk 27
Bernstein, Charles 53
Boym, Svetlana, The Future of Nostalgia 51
Brecon 93
Breuer, Josef, and Freud, Sigmund, Studies on
Hysteria 139
Brief Encounter 92-94
Buffon, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de, Illustrated
History and Description of the Animals 40, 41
Burroughs, William 28,32,92
business 56, 58, 61
The Cabinet of King Charles 40
Carter, Chris 18,83-85
Carter Tutti 14, 83, 85
Céline, Louis-Ferdinand, Journey to the
End of the Night 8
Chicago 56
childhood 48-49
Chris and Cosey 18
Apocalypso 14
Driving Blind 17-18
Fantastique 14
Illusion 14
Luchtbal 14-15
Misunderstandings 14
Spectrofeelya 14
cinema 28, 29-30, 89, 92-94
Cixous, Hélène, Coming to Writing 18
clocks, strange 51,52,53
Cold War era 25
consciousness-conditioning 28
cosey/cosy/cosiness/coseyness/coseying
123-28
COUM Transmissions 7,85
Coward, Noel 93
Critical Theory 28, 32
Crowley, Aleister 93
cunt, nomenclature and 126-27
Daniel, Drew 26
Dazed and Confused 49
denigration, stereotyped 59
Denny, Martin 14,27
Derrida, Jacques 61,62,64
despair, political 55
Didi-Huberman, Georges, 'The art of not describing:
Vermeer - the detail and the patch' 8
Disney, Walt 29, 30, 55
Dolar, Mladen 61
Donald Duck 28, 29-30
e-flux 31
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich 29, 33
El Rosario, Mexico 42
emancipation 31
English, Darby 55
envelopes 18
Eurovision Song Contest (2010) 25
Eurydice 116
femininity, as weakness 32
Feminist movement 31
Flusser, Vilem, Towards a Philosophy
of Photography 48
folds, folding 124-28
Fontana, California 39
Fordism 25-26, 28
Foucault, Michel 28
Frankfurt School 32
Freud, Sigmund 139
Futurism 34
genitalia, female 123-28
Glissant, Edward 61
Godard, Jean-Luc 28
Goodman, Steve 25
Gräfe, Frieda 28-29
Grand Guignol theatre 30
Hanatarash 29
The Happy Hypocrite 7
Hitchcock, Alfred 30
homophobia 32
homosexuality 32
Horkheimer, Max, and Adorno, Theodor W., Dialectics
of Enlightenment 28
Howard, Trevor 93
Howe, Susan 53
Hudson, Rock 90
Hull 13-14,21
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INDEX
Industrial Music 27
innervation 27-28
inside and outside 123
Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) 7, 17, 52
non-description 8
nostalgia, restorative and reflective 51
noun 7
see also verb
Jardin des Plantes, Paris 40
jeans, tight 49
Jesus Christ 56
Johnson, Celia 92, 93
Joyce, James, Finnegans Wake 13
Jung, Carl Gustav, The Structure and Dynamics of the
Psyche 139
object-oriented philosophy 32
October Gallery, London 83
Olmsted, Charles 40
Op Art 33
oppression 123
Orpheus myth 116
overwhelm, aesthetic of 32
kick-oriented cultures 30-32
King's Lynn, Norfolk 83,115-117
Klassnik, Robin 11
Kroc family 41
Laibach 29
Laing, R.D. 28
Lean, David 93
Ligon, Glenn 55
Linguistic Hardcore 11-21
Linklater, Richard 49
The Listener 91
Lordsburg, New Mexico 111
Los Angeles 55
Lyotard, Jean-François 124-125
McDonald's 41
Magazine Actions 20
mail art 84-85
Manson, Charles 93
masculinism 33
masochism 29,31
materiality 123
melodrama 89
Memories of Underdevelopment
Men Only 20
Merzbow 34
methodology 7, 20, 139
Mickey Mouse 29
Miller, Steve 93
Monk, Meredith
Key 117
What Does It Mean? 117
Moten, Fred 55, 63
Mozart, Cosi fan tutte 118, 139
mucus 124, 127-28
Muslimgauze 29
Nabokov, Vladimir 52
names 11-13,17,56
business 56, 58, 61
Nancy, Jean-Luc 62-63
neo-tribalism 32
The New York Times 108
New York World's Fair 40
Nietzsche, Friedrich 32
nomenclature 7, 126-27
see also names
110
P-Orridge, Genesis 11
pain and entertainment 25-34
pandas, giant 39-42
Paris 93
passivity
and activity 125
and passivisation 25,31-33
Pendelton jacket 90
Penthouse 20
Perec, Georges, Species of Spaces 50
Perelman, Bob 53
performativity 123
Perniola, Mario, The Sex Appeal
of the Inorganic 31-32
phallic discourse 125-26
photography 47-53
accidental 47
The Piccadilly 21
Pointillism 33
Poplar, London 91
pornography 30
Post-Fordism 26
Pound, Ezra 15
presets 15
Prostitution 7
Pryor, Richard 55
psychology 107
punks, punk rock 26, 32
Purcell Rooms 18
Pythagoras 62
Quin, Ann, Berg 7
Rachmaninov, Sergei, Piano Concerto No.2
radio broadcasting 91
Radio Times 91
Ramones 28-29
'Readers Wives' 20
Red Hook, New York 52
rhythm 29-30
Rilke, Rainer Maria, Duino Elegies 117
Rochford, Essex 91
The Romance of the Rose 49
Rome 118
San Diego Zoo 39-42
Kroc Family Rainforest
Satellite 25
41-42
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COSEY COMPLEX
self 63, 124
self-harm 26
sex industry
magazines 20-21
workers in 123
sexual politics 29
Shoah 26
Showalter, Elaine, 'Towards a Feminist Poetics' 13
Sirk, Douglas 89
slides 47-53
source and material 18
Soviet cinema 30
speech 61,64
sperm 40
Steely Dan 90
Steyerl, Hito 31
subjectivity, failed 32
subject-oriented aesthetics 33
submission 25,33
substance abuse 107,109
suburbanisation 91
Süddeutsche Zeitung 29
Sun Ra 55-63
swearing 21
Szabo 15
Throbbing Gristle 29, 30, 32-33, 34, 83, 85
D.o.A.: The Third and Final Report 26
Entertainment 26-27
Hamburger Lady 26, 93
Hot on the Heels of Love 55
Second Annual Report 26
torture 25-26
transgression 123
Tyson, June 56
Vancouver
architecture 89-90
Chinese women in 90
verb 7
Venice 93
voice(s) 55, 61-64, 69, 115-18, 118
vulva 125-28
Warhol, Andy 84
Waters, Patty
Black is the colour of my true love's hair 117
Sings 117
West Side Story 49
Whitehouse 29
women
as all should be 11,58,61,63
are like that 58,139
Chinese 90
femininity 32
genitalia of 123, 124-28
identity 123
thus do all 61
words, voice and 61,62
Wyatt, Robert 18
Zap Club 18
Zen 49, 110
Zombie, Rob, The Scorpion Sleeps 110
ZooNooz 40, 41
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