Sexual affects and active pornographic space in the networked Gay Village

Dados Bibliográficos

ID13086117
AutoresBrandon Arroyo (0000-0001-9434-1348, Concordia University, autor correspondente)
Ano2016
Volume3
Fascículo1
Páginas77-88
Data de publicação2016-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPorn Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23268743.2015.1100799
OpenAlexW2312785706
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas8

This article is an affective reading of how networked porn texts work to compose what I call an active pornographic space. What differentiates this from the theatrical porn experience of the 1970s and 1980s is the way in which contemporary porn texts may be created and exchanged immediately through networked devices. This phenomenon allows any seemingly non-sexual locale to be incorporated as part of an active pornographic space. While I use Pierre Fitch as an example of how professional porn performers project a pornographic aesthetic onto neighbourhoods like Montreal's Gay Village, I also account for the role that amateur porn performers play within this circulation of sexual affects. I use Brian Massumi's formation of affect theory and Susanna Paasonen's work on pornographic assemblage to argue that the public manifestations of networked porn texts work to visualize typically invisible sexual affects

Aesthetics · Affect (linguistics · Amateur · Art · Assemblage (archaeology · Epistemology · Linguistics · Locale (computer software · Phenomenon · Public space · Reading (process · Sociology · Communication · Computer Science · Engineering · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Philosophy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology