Transference of disgust: mucous trails and gooey bodies
Nesting Dolls and Shell Games :
“ the radically democratizing force of disgust– an earthly recognition and (or just) affection that disgust comes for, spews out of, and sticks to all bodies at one point or another.” (Marchal, 134)
“disgust is clearly dependant on contact: it involves a relationship of touch and proximity between the surfaces of bodies and objects. The contact is felt as an unpleasant intensity: it is not that the object, apart from the body, has the quality of ‘being offensive’, but the proximity of the object to the body is felt as offensive. The object must have got close enough to make us feel disgusted.” (Ahmed, 85)
“disgust moves, it transfers and transmits, slides and sticks.” (Marchal, 120)
“One might say that disgust continually vomits that which it never took in. Because there is always a horizon beyond which the worse than the worse may be put into play..” (Brinkema, 132)
“Disgust is profoundly, even intimately spatial.” (Marchal, 117)
“In 1 Corinthians [Paul] expresses shock that the assembly community allows ‘a sexual immorality among you, and of a kind that is not found even among gentiles’ (1Cor 5:1) His rhetoric even depends upon this disgusting association: he is seeking to transfer disgust, to make it stick via contact with already disgusting objects.” (Marchal, 125)
“disgust can be acknowledged and not fled, but sensed and felt and lived, as desired and desirable. This could be something like a preferential option for the disgusting” (Marchal, 134)
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