T Gregory
Biographic Data
| ID | 32092 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Gregory |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Gregory |
| SIGNATURE | GREGORY T |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8394-9278 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Reading Pornhub’s authentication systems and deleted archive through Walter Benjamin’s aura
In 2020 Pornhub removed 10.6 million videos from their site in the largest deletion of content by a porn publisher. This article uses Walter Benjamin's concept of the aura to conceptualize Pornhub's action. I interpret Pornhub's moderation policies by proposing two types of aura – the 'fixed' and the 'fluid'. Pornhub has attempted to generate a fixed aura around its content to change cultural perceptions of pornography and to defer legal responsi…
A decolonial critique of ‘authentic’ pleasure in contemporary Australian heteroporn
Authenticity in new wave heteroporn is characterized by a commitment to ethical and transparent production, diversity, and mutual pleasure. Lightsouthern is a contemporary new wave Australian porn producer claiming to capture ‘authentically sexy Aussie experience’. This article examines Lightsouthern’s statements, behind-the-scenes videos, interviews, and contracts to reveal how authentic pleasure is constructed and contrasted to 1990s Australian…
Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism
Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism examines how pornography operates as a representational system that authenticates settler colonies, focussing on American and Australian examples to reveal how pornography encodes whiteness, pleasure, colonisation and Indigeneity. This is the first text to use decolonial and queer theory to examine the role of pornography in America and Australia, as part of a network of neocolonial strategies that "nat…
Colonising antinormative sex: The flexibility of post-porn heterosex in random webcam sex
Random webcam encounters first came into popular consciousness with the rise of Chatroulette in 2009. Since then, various websites have emerged based on a similar model, catering specifically to webcam based sexual practices. This article focuses on one of these sites, Dirtyroulette, and argues that it is an example of what I am calling ‘post-porn heterosex’—defined by the increasing acceptance of pornography into heterosex. An examination of the…
Teaching Post-Pornography
This article introduces the term 'post-pornography', drawing on diverse texts from the last three decades. We propose that 'post-pornography' expands Porn Studies beyond its focus on explicit representations of sex. First, we outline the history of post-pornography as a concept that emerged in the sex-positive, anti-censorship and queer/feminist moment in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s and has subsequently been taken up by a diverse gro…
The maintenance of white heteronormativity in porn films that use Australia as an exotic location
Exotic locations are used in pornography to generate distance between the audience and the explicit content. The ‘pornoexotic’ maintains white heteronormativity through presenting the exotic as a zone of anomie, where taboo desires can be satisfied. This article examines Australia as a unique pornoexotic location through four pornographic feature films. The Australian pornoexotic functions to geographically and symbolically distance the viewer wh…
Sexting and the politics of the image: When the invisible becomes visible in a consensus democracy
Sexting is a highly contested form of image production, particularly when it involves people under the age of 18. Adolescents who are legally prohibited from making pornography are deciding to generate and distribute new forms of sexual material. Public responses to sexting reveal that the dominant image of adolescent sexuality is maintained by heteronormative structures. The educational, legal and social action against sexting is aimed at protec…
The Rise of the Productive Non-Place: The Contemporary Office as a State of Exception
In Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Marc Augé defines the archetypal spaces of globalization. The defining factor for Augé is that non-places are transitory, hence any effect they have on us is temporary. This article addresses the expansion of non-places into spaces of habitation and the consequences that ensue from perpetual exposure. This article proposes that the middle-class office is a non-place. Giorgio Agambe…
Urbanisation, agricultural development, and land allocation
Excavations in Thetford, 1980-1982, Fison Way
Metal-detecting in archaeological excavation
The metal-detector is an electronic instrument; it is incapable of any independent act of free will. It is outside the reference of a system of good and evil : it is neither benign nor malign, ethical nor unethical, as neutral in such matters as a stone. It is capable merely of indicating the presence of certain objects on or below the soil. It bears no responsibility for human action consequent upon such indications. If this appears to be superf…
Teaching Post-Pornography
This article introduces the term 'post-pornography', drawing on diverse texts from the last three decades. We propose that 'post-pornography' expands Porn Studies beyond its focus on explicit representations of sex. First, we outline the history of post-pornography as a concept that emerged in the sex-positive, anti-censorship and queer/feminist moment in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s and has subsequently been taken up by a diverse gro…
The maintenance of white heteronormativity in porn films that use Australia as an exotic location
Exotic locations are used in pornography to generate distance between the audience and the explicit content. The ‘pornoexotic’ maintains white heteronormativity through presenting the exotic as a zone of anomie, where taboo desires can be satisfied. This article examines Australia as a unique pornoexotic location through four pornographic feature films. The Australian pornoexotic functions to geographically and symbolically distance the viewer wh…
Metal-detecting in archaeological excavation
The metal-detector is an electronic instrument; it is incapable of any independent act of free will. It is outside the reference of a system of good and evil : it is neither benign nor malign, ethical nor unethical, as neutral in such matters as a stone. It is capable merely of indicating the presence of certain objects on or below the soil. It bears no responsibility for human action consequent upon such indications. If this appears to be superf…
Reading Pornhub’s authentication systems and deleted archive through Walter Benjamin’s aura
In 2020 Pornhub removed 10.6 million videos from their site in the largest deletion of content by a porn publisher. This article uses Walter Benjamin's concept of the aura to conceptualize Pornhub's action. I interpret Pornhub's moderation policies by proposing two types of aura – the 'fixed' and the 'fluid'. Pornhub has attempted to generate a fixed aura around its content to change cultural perceptions of pornography and to defer legal responsi…
The Rise of the Productive Non-Place: The Contemporary Office as a State of Exception
In Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Marc Augé defines the archetypal spaces of globalization. The defining factor for Augé is that non-places are transitory, hence any effect they have on us is temporary. This article addresses the expansion of non-places into spaces of habitation and the consequences that ensue from perpetual exposure. This article proposes that the middle-class office is a non-place. Giorgio Agambe…
Excavations in Thetford, 1980-1982, Fison Way
Metal-detecting in archaeological excavation
The metal-detector is an electronic instrument; it is incapable of any independent act of free will. It is outside the reference of a system of good and evil : it is neither benign nor malign, ethical nor unethical, as neutral in such matters as a stone. It is capable merely of indicating the presence of certain objects on or below the soil. It bears no responsibility for human action consequent upon such indications. If this appears to be superf…
Excavations in Thetford, 1980-1982, Fison Way
Urbanisation, agricultural development, and land allocation
The Rise of the Productive Non-Place: The Contemporary Office as a State of Exception
In Non-places: Introduction to an Anthropology of Supermodernity, Marc Augé defines the archetypal spaces of globalization. The defining factor for Augé is that non-places are transitory, hence any effect they have on us is temporary. This article addresses the expansion of non-places into spaces of habitation and the consequences that ensue from perpetual exposure. This article proposes that the middle-class office is a non-place. Giorgio Agambe…
Sexting and the politics of the image: When the invisible becomes visible in a consensus democracy
Sexting is a highly contested form of image production, particularly when it involves people under the age of 18. Adolescents who are legally prohibited from making pornography are deciding to generate and distribute new forms of sexual material. Public responses to sexting reveal that the dominant image of adolescent sexuality is maintained by heteronormative structures. The educational, legal and social action against sexting is aimed at protec…
The maintenance of white heteronormativity in porn films that use Australia as an exotic location
Exotic locations are used in pornography to generate distance between the audience and the explicit content. The ‘pornoexotic’ maintains white heteronormativity through presenting the exotic as a zone of anomie, where taboo desires can be satisfied. This article examines Australia as a unique pornoexotic location through four pornographic feature films. The Australian pornoexotic functions to geographically and symbolically distance the viewer wh…
Colonising antinormative sex: The flexibility of post-porn heterosex in random webcam sex
Random webcam encounters first came into popular consciousness with the rise of Chatroulette in 2009. Since then, various websites have emerged based on a similar model, catering specifically to webcam based sexual practices. This article focuses on one of these sites, Dirtyroulette, and argues that it is an example of what I am calling ‘post-porn heterosex’—defined by the increasing acceptance of pornography into heterosex. An examination of the…
Teaching Post-Pornography
This article introduces the term 'post-pornography', drawing on diverse texts from the last three decades. We propose that 'post-pornography' expands Porn Studies beyond its focus on explicit representations of sex. First, we outline the history of post-pornography as a concept that emerged in the sex-positive, anti-censorship and queer/feminist moment in the United States in the 1980s and 1990s and has subsequently been taken up by a diverse gro…
Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism
Pornography, Indigeneity and Neocolonialism examines how pornography operates as a representational system that authenticates settler colonies, focussing on American and Australian examples to reveal how pornography encodes whiteness, pleasure, colonisation and Indigeneity. This is the first text to use decolonial and queer theory to examine the role of pornography in America and Australia, as part of a network of neocolonial strategies that "nat…
A decolonial critique of ‘authentic’ pleasure in contemporary Australian heteroporn
Authenticity in new wave heteroporn is characterized by a commitment to ethical and transparent production, diversity, and mutual pleasure. Lightsouthern is a contemporary new wave Australian porn producer claiming to capture ‘authentically sexy Aussie experience’. This article examines Lightsouthern’s statements, behind-the-scenes videos, interviews, and contracts to reveal how authentic pleasure is constructed and contrasted to 1990s Australian…
Reading Pornhub’s authentication systems and deleted archive through Walter Benjamin’s aura
In 2020 Pornhub removed 10.6 million videos from their site in the largest deletion of content by a porn publisher. This article uses Walter Benjamin's concept of the aura to conceptualize Pornhub's action. I interpret Pornhub's moderation policies by proposing two types of aura – the 'fixed' and the 'fluid'. Pornhub has attempted to generate a fixed aura around its content to change cultural perceptions of pornography and to defer legal responsi…
Sociology (8 works) · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Pornography (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (5 works) · Law (5 works)