How am I supposed to enjoy that?’ Assemblages of porn spectatorship

Bibliographic Data

ID13086110
AuthorsIhsan C Asman (0000-0002-5581-1420, University of Turku, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume12
Issue2
Pages296-309
Publication date2023-05-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePorn Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/23268743.2023.2197912
OpenAlexW4377239196
LanguageEN
References cited14

This article investigates the affective dynamics of porn spectatorship and assemblage formation connected to it through the experiences of the 18 study participants. By bringing conceptualizations of the ‘social’ and non-human agency from actor–network theory to porn studies, the article conceptualizes what porn consumption assembles and how certain sexual norms are materialized by being (affectively) experienced and lived, a process which eventually involves spectators’ different fantasies, interests, and preferences. The article asks what different entities, be they non-human or human, may ‘authorize, allow, afford, encourage, permit, suggest, influence, block, render possible, forbid’ in their material-semiotic heterogeneity and multiplicity within porn spectatorship

Aesthetics · Agency (philosophy · Art · Assemblage (archaeology · Consumption (sociology · Epistemology · Semiotics · Social science · Sociology · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Social Psychology · Ecology

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