Kwasu D Tembo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6915629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kwasu D Tembo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kwasu D |
| FAMILY NAME | Tembo |
| SIGNATURE | TEMBO K D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oldham Council |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A sketch of two parallaxes of porn and its use
Pornography has seemingly always had a strained relationship with ideological and repressive sociopolitical, economic, and cultural state apparatuses in the various permutations of the Western zeitgeist. Condemned as a vehicle of inevitable psycho-emotional decay, pathology, and catastrophe, porn has been as much decried as a vector of an ongoing public health crisis as much as it has been valorized as a vehicle of open, honest, and creative psyc…
The Power of Absolute Nothing
In the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Lacan, the term fascination – which connotes being immobilized, charmed, enchanted, attracted, enraptured, seized, captured, and/or dazzled by the power of the gaze – also evokes dynamics of power. Fascination is associated with the hypnotic bondage of love that paralyzes critical faculties and leads to dependence, docile submission, and jejune credulity; it is also associated with sexual relati…
Magical Negress
Be it Pride of Baghdad (2006), Ex Machina (2004), Runaways (2003), The Private Eye (2013) or Saga (2012), the comic book author Brian K. Vaughan is renowned not only for the scope of the projects in his oeuvre but the nuance with which he portrays his characters, many of which are of types that usually receive less mainstream attention than their white, heteronormative, superhero counterparts. This paper will perform a close reading of Agent 355 …
An engine of confession
On 14 February 2016, Pornhub ran a Valentine’s Day promotion allowing the general public free premium membership for the day. As a symptom of Pornhub Insights, the site’s scientification of sexualities, Pornhub subsequently published a statistical analysis of the average increases in searches based on specific categorical terms and gender. In History of Sexuality Vol. I, Michel Foucault states that the end of the eighteenth century witnessed a co…
A sketch of two parallaxes of porn and its use
Pornography has seemingly always had a strained relationship with ideological and repressive sociopolitical, economic, and cultural state apparatuses in the various permutations of the Western zeitgeist. Condemned as a vehicle of inevitable psycho-emotional decay, pathology, and catastrophe, porn has been as much decried as a vector of an ongoing public health crisis as much as it has been valorized as a vehicle of open, honest, and creative psyc…
An engine of confession
On 14 February 2016, Pornhub ran a Valentine’s Day promotion allowing the general public free premium membership for the day. As a symptom of Pornhub Insights, the site’s scientification of sexualities, Pornhub subsequently published a statistical analysis of the average increases in searches based on specific categorical terms and gender. In History of Sexuality Vol. I, Michel Foucault states that the end of the eighteenth century witnessed a co…
An engine of confession
On 14 February 2016, Pornhub ran a Valentine’s Day promotion allowing the general public free premium membership for the day. As a symptom of Pornhub Insights, the site’s scientification of sexualities, Pornhub subsequently published a statistical analysis of the average increases in searches based on specific categorical terms and gender. In History of Sexuality Vol. I, Michel Foucault states that the end of the eighteenth century witnessed a co…
Magical Negress
Be it Pride of Baghdad (2006), Ex Machina (2004), Runaways (2003), The Private Eye (2013) or Saga (2012), the comic book author Brian K. Vaughan is renowned not only for the scope of the projects in his oeuvre but the nuance with which he portrays his characters, many of which are of types that usually receive less mainstream attention than their white, heteronormative, superhero counterparts. This paper will perform a close reading of Agent 355 …
The Power of Absolute Nothing
In the psychoanalytic theories of Sigmund Freud and Lacan, the term fascination – which connotes being immobilized, charmed, enchanted, attracted, enraptured, seized, captured, and/or dazzled by the power of the gaze – also evokes dynamics of power. Fascination is associated with the hypnotic bondage of love that paralyzes critical faculties and leads to dependence, docile submission, and jejune credulity; it is also associated with sexual relati…
A sketch of two parallaxes of porn and its use
Pornography has seemingly always had a strained relationship with ideological and repressive sociopolitical, economic, and cultural state apparatuses in the various permutations of the Western zeitgeist. Condemned as a vehicle of inevitable psycho-emotional decay, pathology, and catastrophe, porn has been as much decried as a vector of an ongoing public health crisis as much as it has been valorized as a vehicle of open, honest, and creative psyc…
Sociology (4 works) · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender, Feminism, and Media (2 works) · Human sexuality (2 works)