My Friend Nat just told me about a great lecture she went to given by Elizabeth Grosz, I liked this quote by her and am thinking of picking up her book Time Travels: Feminism, Nature, Power (2005)
In her lecture “Sensation. The Earth, A People, Art,” Grosz writes:
Art is of the animal. It comes, not from reason, recognition, intelligence, not from a uniquely human sensibility, or from any of man’s higher accomplishments, but from something excessive, unpredictable, lowly. What is most artistic in us is that which is the most bestial…. Art is … that energy or force, that puts life at risk for the sake of intensification—for the sake of sensation itself—not simply for pleasure or for sexuality, as psychoanalysis suggests—but for what can be magnified, for what is more, through which creation, risk, innovation are undertaken for their own sake, for how and what they may intensify.
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