Form for the blind (porn and description without guarantee)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13086253 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eugenie Brinkema (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 10-22 |
| Publication date | 2019-01-02 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Porn Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2326-8743 • E-ISSN: 2326-8751 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23268743.2018.1559089 |
| OpenAlex | W2923215265 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article reads the paradoxical, curious, and seemingly self-negating pornographic category known as ‘Described Video’ – focusing on PornHub’s growing archive of professional vocal transcriptions of conventional visual pornographic texts, which are described in great detail, in real time alongside the source video, ostensibly for the benefit of the visually impaired. Through a close reading of the way in which the formal language of each text is described alongside narration of sexual practices, the article argues that described video reveals the tension at the heart of pornographic form: the inadequate mediation that all pornography attempts to contravene and disavow, a confusion of description with action. While pornography might seem the Antivalue of description – Don’t tell me, show me! – I argue that the pornographic commodity is itself a positive claim about the nature of description, one that is complicated in the case of described video. Ultimately, description comes to name an interpretation of pornography, making clear that pornographic labour is inextricable from its formal activity, and that desire is not a result of fantasies or flesh, but that form is what gets viewers off
Action (physics · Aesthetics · Art · Confusion · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Narrative · Pornography · Psychoanalysis · Reading (process · Shot (pellet · Sociology · Digital Games and Media · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |