PRE-ORDER: Inklings #27: Revolutionary Desires - Xuanlin Tham
PUBLISHING MARCH 2025
Sex on screen is unnecessary. It is gratuitous. It serves no purpose. That is the sentiment on the rise as cinema becomes less and less sexy. Xuanlin Tham counters that on top of being a vital storytelling tool, sex scenes can also open our minds to the possibility of new futures, of a revolution.
PUBLISHING MARCH 2025
Sex on screen is unnecessary. It is gratuitous. It serves no purpose. That is the sentiment on the rise as cinema becomes less and less sexy. Xuanlin Tham counters that on top of being a vital storytelling tool, sex scenes can also open our minds to the possibility of new futures, of a revolution.
PUBLISHING MARCH 2025
Sex on screen is unnecessary. It is gratuitous. It serves no purpose. That is the sentiment on the rise as cinema becomes less and less sexy. Xuanlin Tham counters that on top of being a vital storytelling tool, sex scenes can also open our minds to the possibility of new futures, of a revolution.
Sex on screen is unnecessary. It is gratuitous. It serves no purpose. That is the sentiment on the rise as cinema becomes less and less sexy.
Xuanlin Tham counters that on top of being a vital storytelling tool, sex scenes can also open our minds to the possibility of new futures, of a revolution. Through The Matrix Reloaded, Lingua Franca and beyond, Revolutionary Desires explores how the form’s intimacies, transgressions, and dedication to pleasure can be uniquely poised to rupture dominant narratives of capitalism and the violences that flow from it.
Why is the sex scene, demonised as it is, therefore more politically important and subversive than ever? And how can it power a desire for something more?
