Ogawa, Benjamin Ryo2015-08-132015-08-132015-06https://hdl.handle.net/1794/1911557 pages. A thesis presented to the Department of Philosophy, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Clark Honors College of the University of Oregon in partial fulfillment of the requirements for degree of Bachelor of Arts, Spring 2015.This undergraduate honors thesis sets out to explore possible intersections between fields of Feminist, Queer, and Frankfurt School Critical theory and the potential value in reconsidering the critical framework of bodies and pleasures to include BDSM (particularly pain and restraint) practices as but one manifold site of possible resistance to patriarchal capitalism. The project begins by articulating some of the elements of pleasure as it is frequently defined culturally, through Freud, and how this is mirrored in some elements of critical philosophies when they touch on the resistance potential of pleasure and the body but either preclude or reject any and all forms of BDSM from conversations of resistance. This project neither seeks to establish BDSM as a silver bullet that should be taken up by everyone as a new unified theory of resistance, nor seeks to preclude it from intersectional conversations about critique and resistance in relation to discipline, production, and enlightenment rationality. Primary authors include: Theodor Adorno, Michel Foucault, Eve Sedgwick, Lee Edelman, Karmen MacKendrick, and Karl Marx.en-USCreative Commons BY-NC-ND 4.0-USPhilosophyBDSMFeminismQueer theoryCritical theoryPleasureProductivityFeminist theoryPainResistanceThesis / Dissertation