Porno Graphics And Porno Tactics Desire Affect And Representation In Pornography

Author : Eirini Avramopoulou,Irene Peano
Publisher : punctum books
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 55,5 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 : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
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 : Eliza Steinbock
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : 52,6 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 : Jeffrey Escoffier
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781978820166

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Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography by Jeffrey Escoffier Pdf

Hardcore pornographic films combine fantasy and real sex to create a unique genre of entertainment. Pornographic films are also historical documents that give us access to the sexual behavior and eroticism of different historical periods. This book shows how the making of pornographic films is a social process that draws on the fantasies, sexual scripts, and sexual identities of performers, writers, directors, and editors to produce sexually exciting videos and movies. Yet hardcore pornographic films have also created a body of knowledge that constitutes, in this digital age, an enormous archive of sexual fantasies that serve as both a form of sex education and self-help guides. Sex, Society, and the Making of Pornography focuses on sex and what can be learned about it from pornographic representations.

Author : H. Maes
Publisher : Springer
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781137367938

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Pornographic Art and the Aesthetics of Pornography by H. Maes Pdf

What happens when art and pornography meet? By providing a plurality of disciplinary approaches and theoretical perspectives this essay collection will give the reader a fuller and deeper understanding of the commonalities and frictions between artistic and pornographic representations.

Author : Shelton Waldrep
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781501333064

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The Space of Sex by Shelton Waldrep Pdf

As film and television become ever more focused on the pornographic gaze of the camera, the human body undergoes a metamorphosis, becoming both landscape and building, part of an architectonic design in which the erotics of the body spread beyond the body itself to influence the design of the film or televisual shot. The body becomes the mise-en-scène of contemporary moving imagery. Opening The Space of Sex, Shelton Waldrep sets up some important tropes for the book: the movement between high and low art; the emphasis on the body, looking, and framing; the general intermedial and interdisciplinary methodology of the book as a whole. The Space of Sex's second half focuses on how sex, gender, and sexuality are represented in several recent films, including Paul Schrader's The Canyons (2013), Oliver Stone's Savages (2012), Steven Soderbergh's Magic Mike (2012), Lars Von Trier's Nymphomaniac (2013), and Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Don Jon (2013). Each of these mainstream or independent movies, and several more, are examined for the ways they have attempted to absorb pornography, if not the pornography industry specifically, into their plot. According to Waldrep, the utopian elements of seventies porn get reprocessed in a complex way in the twenty-first century as both a utopian impulse-the desire to have sex on the screen, to re-eroticize sex as something positive and lacking in shame-with a mixed feeling about pornography itself, with an industry that can be seen in a dystopian light. In other words, sex, in our contemporary world, still does not come without compromise.

Author : Susanna Paasonen
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2024-02-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262551274

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Carnal Resonance by Susanna Paasonen Pdf

An exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production tools and online networks have dramatically increased the general visibility, accessibility, and diversity of pornography. Porn can be accessed for free, anonymously, and in a seemingly endless range of niches, styles, and formats. In Carnal Resonance, Susanna Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political, and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and its visceral and disturbing qualities. Countering theorizations of pornography as emotionless, affectless, detached, and cold, Paasonen addresses experiences of porn largely through the notion of affect as gut reactions, intensities of experience, bodily sensations, resonances, and ambiguous feelings. She links these investigations to considerations of methodology (ways of theorizing and analyzing online porn and affect), questions of materiality (bodies, technologies, and inscriptions), and the evolution of online pornography. Paasonen dicusses the development of online porn, focusing on the figure of the porn consumer, and considers user-generated content and amateur porn. She maps out the modality of online porn as hyperbolic, excessive, stylized, and repetitive, arguing that literal readings of the genre misunderstand its dynamics and appeal. And she analyzes viral videos and extreme and shock pornogaphy, arguing for the centrality of disgust and shame in the affective dynamics of porn. Paasonen's analysis makes clear the crucial role of media technologies—digital production tools and networked communications in particular—in the forms that porn takes, the resonances it stirs, and the experiences it makes possible.

Author : Ricky Varghese
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-21
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781000847048

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Porn on the Couch by Ricky Varghese Pdf

This book considers pornography as a bridge between screen cultures and screen memories. The screen as a conceptual apparatus, in both pornographic production/ viewership and psychoanalysis, becomes important to unpack as such— what does the screen hold in with respect to desire and pleasure? What does it keep out? Are sex and memory interconnected? And if so, what is the status of memory as it informs sexual choices, practices, and fantasies and, thereby, informs the use of porn? Following Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, might there be the possibility for a reparative or redemptive reading of pornography that is informed by a psychoanalytic emphasis on the study of desire? Who or what are the subjects and objects of desire in the visual field of pornography? What sorts of psychoanalytic readings are possible of pornographic texts (in any media) and to what end might we undertake such an interpretative approach? How do well- worn psychoanalytic categories, such as loss, lack, mourning, melancholia, attachment, trauma, and the fetish, inform pornographic interpellation in both the producer and viewer? What are the ethical and methodological implications connected to thinking psychoanalytically about pornography? These are but some of the questions that this collection of essays explores. It will be of interest to researchers and advanced students of media and cultural studies, sociology, psychology, and mental health. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal, Porn Studies.

Author : Berkeley Kaite
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-11-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0253115604

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Pornography and Difference by Berkeley Kaite Pdf

This study of pornographic magazine photographs -- softcore, hardcore, transsexual/transvestite -- analyzes the visual code of these images. It engages questions about masculinity and masculine sexuality such as "Is there a necessary relation between difference and phallic desire?" "Can the masculine subject imagine otherness?" "Is there a will-to-asceticism in this (masculine) sexual surrender to indifferentiation?"

Author : Joseph W. Slade
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015050724635

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Pornography and Sexual Representation by Joseph W. Slade Pdf

For better or worse, pornography and sexual representation suffuse American culture. This first comprehensive guide to the literature includes the history of pornography in the United States and discusses pornography in a vast range of media. It presents information regarding bibliographies and reference tools concerning pornography and reviews of references devoted to the histories of sexuality and its representations and on theoretical works on erotica and pornography. A chronology of important dates in the history of American Pornography and a discussion of child pornography outline issues and events throughout its history. Dramatic, visual, and electronic media are gathered and arranged by topic. Pornography in all of its forms is explored in this three volume reference. Slade includes many avenues upon which pornography and sexual representation have had an impact including research and policy in the medical and social sciences, the law in the United States, and the economics of pornography. An invaluable tool for further research, this guide to the literature of pornography and sexual representation will appeal to scholars and students of popular culture, gender and women's studies, and gay and lesbian studies. It will also interest those in the field of American history and mass media.

Author : Karen Boyle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-09-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136942105

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Everyday Pornography by Karen Boyle Pdf

Public and academic debate about ‘porn culture’ is proliferating. Ironically, what is often lost in these debates is a sense of what is specific about pornography. By focusing on pornography’s mainstream – contemporary commercial products for a heterosexual male audience – Everyday Pornography offers the opportunity to reconsider what it is that makes pornography a specific form of industrial practice and genre of representation. Everyday Pornography presents original work from scholars from a range of academic disciplines (Media Studies, Law, Sociology, Psychology, Women’s Studies, Political Science), introducing new methodologies and approaches whilst reflecting on the ongoing value of older approaches. Among the topics explored are: the porn industry’s marketing practices (spam emails, reviews) and online organisation commercial sex in Second Life the pornographic narratives of phone sex and amateur videos the content of best-selling porn videos how the male consumer is addressed by pornography, represented within the mainstream, understood by academics and contained by legislation. This collection places a particular emphasis on anti-pornography feminism, a movement which has been experiencing a revival since the mid-2000s. Drawing on the experiences of activists alongside academics, Everyday Pornography offers an opportunity to explore the intellectual and political challenges of anti-pornography feminism and consider its relevance for contemporary academic debate.

Author : Kaarina Nikunen,Susanna Paasonen,Laura Saarenmaa
Publisher : Berg Publishers
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1845207041

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Pornification by Kaarina Nikunen,Susanna Paasonen,Laura Saarenmaa Pdf

Pornification presents an international overview of how pornography - from softcore to hardcore, gay to straight, female to male, black to white - infiltrates and proliferates through our media.Porn is everywhere; from the suggestiveness of music videos to the explicit discussions of popular magazines; from the erotica of advertising to the refashioning of sex acts into art works; from a small garage industry to an internet empire. The media immerses us in the pornographic aesthetic. Now integral to popular culture, porn is part of our everyday lives. Sexual desire is commodified, pornified and the media leads the way. Exploring music videos, alt porn sites, Cosmogirls and Gaydar online forums, H&M's street advertising, retro pin-ups, film and educational sex videos alike, Pornification analyses the transformation of porn in today's media and its impact on our culture.

Author : Aa. Vv.
Publisher : Mimesis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19T00:00:00+01:00
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9788857528274

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Porn After Porn by Aa. Vv. Pdf

After the “digital turn,” expansion of sexual representations has taken shape quantitatively(thanks to the multiplication of production and distribution channels) and qualitatively (giving riseto a plurality of new representational forms). In this context, several social groups – including women and non-normative sexual subcultures – have obtained full citizenship rights within the “pornosphere,” moving beyond their traditional marginalization or, indeed, exclusion. These “nonconventional” pornographies exist in a dialectical relationship with mainstream production in so far as they are at the same time a development and a repudiation of the latter (on an aesthetic, economic and political level).This volume investigates the emergences of alternative pornographies, highlighting theirdiscursive heterogeneity, their cultural status and connections to identities and non-normativepractices, and their role in redefining the very idea of pornography.The publication maps the main areas relating to alternative pornographies, such as alt porn,queer pornography, indie porn, post porn, feminist pornography, and amateur porn.With a foreword by Feona Attwood

Author : Berkeley Kaite
Publisher : National Library of Canada
Page : 760 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Pornography
ISBN : 0315511206

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Semio-sex [microform] : the Pornographic Moment of Transgression and Desire by Berkeley Kaite Pdf