And perhaps that’s the deepest point: these figures are not real women, but figurations . They are what happens when desire is expelled from the center and returns as art, as rhythm, as scandal. They remind us that the forbidden is not the opposite of culture—it is the fire that culture tries to contain. And funk, like sex, like the geisha’s half-smile, always finds a way to burn through.
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