By dictionary definition erotics means 'something of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire or excitement'. However, by theoretical approach it is slightly different, it is not in sexual terms but is the excitement or even something beyond, in our experience. Nevertheless, the erotics pertains to the theories of semiotics, phenomenology, aesthetics and hyperreality that we have learnt in our previous classes. It is said that erotics is 'the not the excess of pleasure but the pleasure of excess'. It is the delight in perceiving something that is overwhelming, infinite, to the point of intimidation or horror. It is the "sublime", the wow sensation, a satisfaction so much that you could die.
The film 'Fight Club' is an example of erotics in theoretical claims. It is a story of a guy who's bored of his own life so much that he faked at being cancer to join cancer consultations intending to experience true feelings of the near-death or the sublime. It was experience received second-handedly until he was involved in fight club, a club that people literally come to fight. They really get hurt and really get an adrenalin rush at the hint of almost dying. The film's catch phrase was "if you haven't fight, you haven't lived". The aesthetics of fight club was that no one else knows about fight club, people are attracted by this ambiguity. The rules of fight club is 'Do not talk about fight club'. It implies that the club only exist between the few members, a perception that they are breaking away from the aesthetics of normal people (outside of fight club), that they are different, so the main character had achieved his will in living a more exciting life. But eventually, fight club grew and the increase in its members caused it to lose its 'aesthetics' in being unique. To break away from the norm again, fight club started picking fight with other people instead. Thus, they have gone further in the 'sublime', an even more dangerous activity, at the verge of fatality.
From this example we can see clearly that erotics, as a theory of experience, is a mix of studies and understandings of different theories of perception.
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