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Isabel Millar - Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Bombshell

Machinic Unconscious Happy Hour

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Faciality in the Film

Faciality was a big part of her becoming this iconic image. Even to call it a beauty mark, I think is sort of belies a certain, you know, not to I don't want to interrupt but just that beauty the way that you even just phrase it beauty mark gets to the Lacanian point. It's interesting that the Monroe is a piercing because a piercing is a sort of permeating reflection. Now the beauty spot actually goes into your penetrates your body, as opposed to being a protuberance on your body.

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