Stan Van Rompaey – LUCA Dirk Lauwaert-Prize 2021

Now the ignoble wait is almost over! A new canonical text in respect of the eternal virgins, endorsed by the event of the year, coming at you from sophisticated mischief. Look camp right in the eye, twist the 8-count of academic killjoy, and weight the world’s burdens to bulge those biceps. “Minimalism is dead!!! Long live tacky extravagance, performative excess, artless luxury, and all forms of opulence for its own sake.”  

“Thank you to the Academy for this honour of honours.”

Stan Van Rompaey won the Dirk Lauwaert award in 2021 for her treatise Notes on Bimbos and Bodybuilders: a heterotopic enquiry into “Camp” (synopsis below). This means the book—reworked and remastered—will soon go to press and be available in bookstores near you! But in order to allow for that, we are offering the chance to pre-order the book at a reduced price to help fund the project. Those who wish may also contribute without purchasing the publication. 

All are warmly welcomed to the eventual celebratory launch event, which will be nothing short of spectacle, albeit with offence and disgrace lurking around the corner! After all, as Graham Harman pointed out: “If we identify this event with ‘aesthetics’ in the broadest sense of the term, it becomes clear why first philosophy is aesthetics, not ethics.” 

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Stan Van Rompaey won in 2021 de Dirk Lauwaert prijs voor haar verhandeling Notes on Bimbos and Bodybuilders: a heterotopic enquiry into “Camp”. Dat betekent dat het boek—herwerkt en vernieuwd—binnenkort ter perse gaat en verkrijgbaar is in de boekhandel bij u in de buurt! Maar om dat mogelijk te maken, bieden we jullie de kans om het boek tegen een gereduceerde prijs te bestellen om het project te helpen financieren.

Iedereen is van harte welkom op het uiteindelijke feestelijke lanceringsevenement, dat niets minder dan spektakel zal worden, zij het dat belediging en schande om de hoek loeren! Immers, zoals Graham Harman opmerkte: “Als we dit evenement identificeren met ‘esthetiek’ in de breedste zin van het woord, wordt het duidelijk waarom filosofie eerst esthetiek is en niet ethiek.”

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Any serious attempt to describe or picture “camp” is destined to fail. Susan Sontag knew that. And so does Stan Van Rompaey. One who understands the camp sensibility loses it once it is voiced. Only the true imposter seems to have a fair shot. And off Stan goes. She linguistically dances with bimbos and bodybuilders, she cooks up a wild collection of citations that are as sane as they are stuffy, and she curates an unfinished story of obscene images. In the end, realising with Oscar Wilde that being natural is such a difficult pose to keep up, she writes an illicit manifesto — as sincere as it is contrived, as personal as it is political — that celebrates excess and triumphs over any sense of guilt and shame. All in a desperate attempt to unravel what it means to be “camp”, from a post-ironic state of mind, fully aware that no aesthetic is innocent, and neither is the criticism of it. Start reading and looking, surge on the waves of everyday artificiality, indulge in some bimbofication of your own, and make sure to lose yourself in the commodity fetishism of these unholy days. And while you’re drifting in between and slightly beyond the borders of language and understanding, always remember that you are not just another bimbo!

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Dit project kon gerealiseerd worden danzij de steun van Arctic Papers.