Erotics of Theories

Most of us, by now, are familiar with the word erotics of architecture.  We have spent a whole semester exploring on the term.  Let us now recollect our thoughts a little bit.  Eroticism in architecture is an ephemeral phenomenon, which gives us feelings when we are exposed to it.  From my point of view, erotics could relate to most theories we have studied.

In phenomenology, the theory stimulated our strong emotional sense when we encounter the space.  It plays with experiences of the users in the same way as eroticism.  When we experience something, we got feelings towards it, and that feelings vary from person to person.  In simulation, the hyper reality state that we are in also gives us strong feelings.  It gives sense of something very real, yet it’s fake and we don’t know it.  Since erotics related to feelings, it is a personal experience, just like aesthetics, and the same as semiotics.

That said, erotics is more like an additional theory that we can play with, but we couldn’t use it alone.  It is really hard to tell what is the real meaning of erotics, but it is something that we could use to support our theory