texts:

a) yeats, crazy jane talks to the bishop
b) batialle, divine filth
c) manzoni, canned shit
d) barthes, sade/fourier/loyala
e) pasolini, salo
f) rberg, bed
g) mapplethorpe, fisting
h) serrano, piss christ
i) koons, made in heaven
j) mccarthy, inflatables

6 points:
a) mostly catholic, all from xian contexts
b) instability of the once stable body, related to the idea of death of the author
c) abasement or abjectness can be as theological, and as strong a theological tradition (inc/esp) its inclusion of the sublime, as ideas of ascension or grace
d) heresey or blasphemey as a response to the horrors of the 20th century
e) obscenity as a liberatory/political possibilty (as punishment, as getting what one deserves, as an extension of opposition in all things)
f) it mirrors/provides a shadow discourse of the allowed/proper abjeciton of the divine body. (cf steinberg)