Modeling Affective Labor
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6141762 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin Halligan (0000-0001-6772-8045, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 58-80 |
| Publication date | 2017-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/17432197-3755192 |
| OpenAlex | W2562166125 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 9 |
Photographer Terry Richardson works in a digital aesthetic vernacular that looks more to underground hard-core pornography of yesteryear than traditions associated with the institutionalization of erotica, as associated with Playboy. And yet his images, in Kibosh and Terryworld, anticipate the contemporary public recalibration of ideas of intimacy as associated with social media, tally with contested ideas of the sexualization of female empowerment as associated with contested elements of third wave feminism, and can be read as a contemporary phase of Antonio Negri’s theory of art and immaterial labor in their evidencing of the affective labor on the part of the photographer himself. This critical commentary, the first such academic writing on Richardson, explores his work in these contexts and considers Richardson’s return to the figure (over abstraction) as evidencing and exploring of the nature of work, and the nascent eroticization of working relations, under Western neoliberal regimes
Aesthetics · Art · Feminism · Human sexuality · Institutionalisation · Literature · Media studies · Political science · Pornography · Sexualization · Sociology · Vernacular · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Fashion and Cultural Textiles · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |