Porno Graphics

Author : Eirini Avramopoulou,Irene Peano
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780692720547

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Porno-graphics & Porno-tactics by Eirini Avramopoulou,Irene Peano Pdf

Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics asks whether, and how, it is possible to re-appropriate pornography and think through it critically and creatively for a project of liberation. In the different contributions which make up this deliberately heterogeneous collection of short, non-canonical essays, such quest proceeds by re-articulating the aporias of desire, intimacy, touch and seduction. It also relates them to claims of visibility, visions of emancipation and its failures, as well as to the politics of violence that we get exposed to through circulating images and affects. This is an attempt to exceed the limits set by and for ourselves in relation to how we connect to our own bodies, to the bodies of our lovers and to the bodies of the theories we live with, sleep with and dream about - in short, to all that we get attached to. The editors and contributors of this collection do not claim the euphoric potentiality of pornography as necessarily subversive and emancipatory, but open up to the possibilities of re-shaping it (in textual, contextual, intertextual, but also affective and embodied forms) through different graphic and tactical/tactile inscriptions. On the one hand, authors reflect on definitions and practices of pornography as a genre adopting specific codes and canons, whether it is concerned with sex acts and the industry of porn or with other predominant forms of representation and the structures of power underlying them. On the other hand, chapters relate to the more affective, libidinal, synaesthetic and inter/subjective dimensions of pornography, and on the capacity of different reappropriations to subvert its limits. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction. Challenging Pornography, Challenged by Pornography: From Monstrous Tactics to Enactments of Poiesis - Eirini Avramopoulou and Irene Peano Interview with Emilie Jouvet - Eirini Avramopoulou, Irene Peano, Adele Tulli Open Letter on Empowerment and Queer Porn - Kathryn Fischer (a.k.a. "Mad Kate") A Seductive Intrigue of Sexuality? - Sinan Goknur The Pornographic Everyday - Namita Aavriti Look! But Also, Touch!: Theorizing Images of Trans Eroticism Beyond a Politics of Visual Essentialism - Eliza Steinbock Pornography for Blind and Visually Impaired People: On Tactility and Monstrosity - Elia Charidi A Note on Pornography and Violence - Mantas Kvedaravicius

Author : Eirini Avramopoulou
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1229671517

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Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics: Desire, Affect, and Representation in Pornography by Eirini Avramopoulou Pdf

Author : Dan Greenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Art and morals
ISBN : UCAL:B3272846

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Porno-graphics by Dan Greenburg Pdf

Author : João Florêncio
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-08-16
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351123402

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Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures by João Florêncio Pdf

This book analyses contemporary gay "pig" masculinities, which have emerged alongside antiretroviral therapies, online porn, and new sexualised patterns of recreational drug use, examining how they trouble modern European understandings of the male body, their ethics, and their political underpinnings. This is the first book to reflect on an increasingly visible new form of sexualised gay masculinity, and the first monograph to move debates on condomless sex amongst gay men beyond discourses of HIV and/or AIDS. It contributes to existing critical histories of sexuality, pornography and other sex media at a crucial juncture in the history of gay male sex cultures and the HIV epidemic. The book draws from fieldwork, interviews, archival research, visual analysis, philosophy, queer theory, and cultural studies, using empirical, critical, and speculative methodologies to better think gay "pig" masculinities across their material, affective, ethical and political dimensions, in a future-oriented, politically-inflected, reflection on what queer bodies may become. Spanning historical context to empirical and theoretical study, Bareback Porn, Porous Masculinities, Queer Futures will be of key interest to academics and students in sexuality studies, film, media, visual culture, cultural studies, and porn studies concerned with masculinities, sex and sexualities and their circulation across an array of media.

Author : Kenneth FitzGerald,Rudy VanderLans
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-17
Category : Design
ISBN : 9781616890902

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Volume by Kenneth FitzGerald,Rudy VanderLans Pdf

Volume—a word that refers to sound, collections, and the measurement of space—is a crucial characteristic of both graphic design and popular music. While expressing different aspects of these two pervasive cultural mediums, the term also introduces a discussion on their many links. Volume: Writings on Graphic Design, Music, Art, and Culture is a collection of both new and classic writings by frequent Emigre contributor and educator Kenneth FitzGerald that survey the discipline of graphic design in context with the parallel creative fields of contemporary music and art. The topics of the writings are diverse: the roles of class in design, design education, Lester Bangs and Creem magazine, pornography, album cover art, independent record labels, anonymity and imaginary creative identities, and design as cultural chaos-maker.

Author : Dan Greenburg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Art and morals
ISBN : 0394424832

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Porno-graphics by Dan Greenburg Pdf

Author : Linda Williams
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1999-04-27
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0520219430

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Hard Core by Linda Williams Pdf

On hard core pornographic cinema.

Author : Elinor Fuchs
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996-07-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780253113474

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The Death of Character by Elinor Fuchs Pdf

"Extremely well written, and exceedingly well informed, this is a work that opens a variety of important questions in sophisticated and theoretically nuanced ways. It is hard to imagine a better tour guide than Fuchs for a trip through the last thirty years of, as she puts it, what we used to call the 'avant-garde.'" —Essays in Theatre ". . . an insightful set of theoretical 'takes' on how to think about theatre before and theatre after modernism." —Theatre Journal "In short, for those who never experienced a 'postmodern swoon,' Elinor Fuchs is an excellent informant." —Performing Arts Journal ". . . a thoughtful, highly readable contribution to the evolving literature on theatre and postmodernism." —Modern Drama "A work of bold theoretical ambition and exceptional critical intelligence. . . . Fuchs combines mastery of contemporary cultural theory with a long and full participation in American theater culture: the result is a long-needed, long-awaited elaboration of a new theatrical paradigm." —Una Chaudhuri, New York University "What makes this book exceptional is Fuchs' acute rehearsal of the stranger unnerving events of the last generation that have—in the cross-reflections of theory—determined our thinking about theater. She seems to have seen and absorbed them all." —Herbert Blau, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee "Surveying the extraordinary scene of the postmodern American theater, Fuchs boldly frames key issues of subjectivity and performance with the keenest of critical eyes for the compelling image and the telling gesture." —Joseph Roach, Tulane University " . . . Fuchs makes an exceptionally lucid and eloquent case for the value and contradictions in postmodern theater." —Alice Rayner, Stanford University "Arguably the most accessible yet learned road map to what remains for many impenetrable territoryan obligatory addition to all academic libraries serving upper-division undertgraduates and above." —Choice "A systematic, comprehensive and historically-minded assessment of what, precisely, 'post-modern theatre' is, anyway." —American Theatre In this engrossing study, Elinor Fuchs explores the multiple worlds of theater after modernism. While The Death of Character engages contemporary cultural and aesthetic theory, Elinor Fuchs always speaks as an active theater critic. Nine of her Village Voice and American Theatre essays conclude the volume. They give an immediate, vivid account of contemporary theater and theatrical culture written from the front of rapid cultural change.

Author : Michael S. Lew,Nicu Sebe,John P. Eakins
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-03
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783540438991

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Image and Video Retrieval by Michael S. Lew,Nicu Sebe,John P. Eakins Pdf

Finally,wearegrateful tooursponsors,theBritishComputerSocietyInformationRetrievalSpecialist Group,theBritishMachineVisionAssociation(BMVA),theInstituteforImage DataResearch,UniversityofNorthumbria,theInstitutionofElectricalEn- neers(IEE),andtheLeidenInstituteofAdvancedComputerScience(LIACS), LeidenUniversiy. May2002 MichaelS. Lew NicuSebe JohnP. Eakins International Conference an Image andVideo Retrieval 2002 Organization Organizing Committee OrganizingCommitteeChair: JohnP. Eakins (UniversityofNorthumbria,UK) TechnicalProgramChair: MichaelS.

Author : Eliza Steinbock
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-22
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781478004509

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Shimmering Images by Eliza Steinbock Pdf

In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the “shimmer” and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage-like on film, an effect they label shimmering. Steinbock applies the concept of shimmering—which delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of transforming bodies, images, and affects—to analyses of films that span time and genre. These include examinations of the fantastic and phantasmagorical shimmerings of sex change in Georges Méliès's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in Man into Woman. Steinbock also explores more recent documentaries, science fiction, and pornographic and experimental films. Presenting a cinematic philosophy of transgender embodiment that demonstrates how shimmering images mediate transitioning, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual.

Author : Manuele Gragnolati,Christoph F. E. Holzhey
Publisher : Series Cultural Inquiry
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783851328547

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De/Constituting Wholes by Manuele Gragnolati,Christoph F. E. Holzhey Pdf

How can the power of wholes be resisted without essentializing their parts? Drawing on different archives and methodologies, including aesthetics, history, biology, affect, race, and queer, the interventions in this volume explore different ways of troubling the consistency and stability of wholes, breaking up their closure and making them more dynamic. Doing so without necessarily presupposing or producing parts, an outside, or a teleological development, they indicate the critical potential of partiality without parts.

Author : Hans Jürgen Eysenck
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781412834254

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The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology by Hans Jürgen Eysenck Pdf

In The Social Consequences of Modern Psychology Eysenck takes the position that social science has real substance, and its findings ought to be applicable to social problems of our times. Although there is little that scientists can do about war and its prevention, or about social unrest and upheaval, or about strikes and other confrontations, there are a number of questions to which we can give tentative answers. This book deals with some of these questions, and finds some of the answers. Eysenck begins with a look at a paradox of modern psychology. Experimental psychologists use strictly scientific methods to investigate what to many people seem trivial and sterile problems, yet some social psychologists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts investigate what are clearly important and socially relevant problems, but use methods and theories whose scientific rigor is doubtful at best. This paradox is artificial and unnecessary. Methods of investigation and theories and concepts enable us to combine worthwhile problems and rigorous methods. The book takes a long look at a particular problem which Eysenck investigated in depth during his illustrious lifetime. This tour de force, by one of the magisterial figures of modern psychology, is written for people as well as about people. It is not a rehash of the voluminous writings of lawyers, poets, politicians, dramatists, historians, psychiatrists and others who have felt compelled to write about these psychological matters without even a smattering of psychological knowledge. It is, instead, based on empirical investigations that are too often declared to be nonexistent by publicists and politicos. Hans J. Eysenck (1916-1997) was professor of psychology at the University of London and the director of its psychological department at the Institute of Psychiatry. He was best known for his experimental researches in the field of personality. Among his many books are Rebel with a Cause, Dimensions of Personality, The Dynamics of Anxiety and Hysteria, Intelligence, and Decline and Fall of the Freudian Empire, all published by Transaction. Sybil B. G. Eysenck, wife of the late author, is co-director of Personality Investigations, Publications and Services (PIPS), an organization devoted to the promotion of the writings and research of Hans J. Eysenck. She is the coauthor, with Hans Eysenck, of Psychoticism as a Dimension of Personality and Personality Structure and Measurement and the co-editor, with Donald Saklofske, of Individual Differences in Children and Adolescents, published by Transaction.

Author : Flora Dunster,Theo Gordon
Publisher : Ilex Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781781579060

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Photography – A Queer History by Flora Dunster,Theo Gordon Pdf

Photography - A Queer History examines how photography has been used by artists to capture, create and expand the category 'Queer'. It bookmarks different thematic concerns central to queer photography, forging unexpected connections to showcase the diverse ways the medium has been used to fashion queer identities and communities. How has photography advanced fights against LGBTQ+ discrimination? How have artists used photography to develop a queer aesthetic? How has the production and circulation of photography served to satisfy the queer desire for images, and created transnational solidarities? Photography - A Queer History includes the work of 84 artists. It spans different historical and national contexts, and through a mix of thematic essays and artist-centred texts brings young photographers into conversation with canonical images.

Author : Susan Merrill Squier,Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780271087313

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PathoGraphics by Susan Merrill Squier,Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff Pdf

Culturally powerful ideas of normalcy and deviation, individual responsibility, and what is medically feasible shape the ways in which we live with illness and disability. The essays in this volume show how illness narratives expressed in a variety of forms—biographical essays, fictional texts, cartoons, graphic novels, and comics—reflect on and grapple with the fact that these human experiences are socially embedded and culturally shaped. Works of fiction addressing the impact of an illness or disability; autobiographies and memoirs exploring an experience of medical treatment; and comics that portray illness or disability from the perspective of patient, family member, or caregiver: all of these narratives forge a specific aesthetic in order to communicate their understanding of the human condition. This collection demonstrates what can emerge when scholars and artists interested in fiction, life-writing, and comics collaborate to explore how various media portray illness, medical treatment, and disability. Rather than stopping at the limits of genre or medium, the essays talk across fields, exploring together how works in these different forms craft narratives and aesthetics to negotiate contention and build community around those experiences and to discover how the knowledge and experiences of illness and disability circulate within the realms of medicine, art, the personal, and the cultural. Ultimately, they demonstrate a common purpose: to examine the ways comics and literary texts build an audience and galvanize not just empathy but also action. In addition to the editors, the contributors to this volume include Einat Avrahami, Maureen Burdock, Elizabeth J. Donaldson, Ariela Freedman, Rieke Jordan, stef lenk, Leah Misemer, Tahneer Oksman, Nina Schmidt, and Helen Spandler. Chapter 7, “Crafting Psychiatric Contention Through Single-Panel Cartoons,” by Helen Spandler, is available as Open Access courtesy of a grant from the Wellcome Trust. A link to the OA version of this chapter is forthcoming.

Author : Karin Wagner
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Design
ISBN : 9780262375214

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From ASCII Art to Comic Sans by Karin Wagner Pdf

A fresh and provocative take on typography, computing, and popular culture, viewed through four idiosyncratic typographical phenomena from the digital age. From ASCII Art to Comic Sans offers an original vision of the history of typography and computing in the digital age, viewed through the lens of offbeat typography. We often regard text as pure information and typography as a transparent art form without meaning of its own. In this richly illustrated book, however, Karin Wagner offers a fresh perspective that shows how text is always an image that conveys meaning, and how typography, far from being meaningless, has in fact shaped modern visual and material culture in significant ways. By juxtaposing four odd typographical phenomena—the pedantic practice of ASCII art, the curious-looking machine-readable typefaces, the blurry letters of dot matrix printers, and the much-maligned font Comic Sans—Wagner paints a vivid picture of how functional technologies influence popular culture when used in ways their original creators never intended. Design practitioners, as well as fans of media, graphic design, type history, and computer technology, will enjoy this breezily sophisticated perspective on visual and digital culture. Spanning the material and visual aspects of typography from the 1960s to the present, From ASCII Art to Comic Sans is a unique contribution to the study of popular and material culture that fills a gap in the history of typography and computing.