Why Internet Porn Matters

Why Internet Porn Matters
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 148
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ISBN-10 : 9780804786706
ISBN-13 : 0804786704
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Book Synopsis Why Internet Porn Matters by : Margret Grebowicz

Download or read book Why Internet Porn Matters written by Margret Grebowicz and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-27 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now that pornography is on the Internet, its political and social functions have changed. So contends Margret Grebowicz in this imperative philosophical analysis of Internet porn. The production and consumption of Internet porn, in her account, are a symptom of the obsession with self-exposure in today's social networking media, which is, in turn, a symptom of the modern democratic construction of the governable subject as both transparent and communicative. In this first feminist critique to privilege the effects of pornography's Internet distribution rather than what it depicts, Grebowicz examines porn-sharing communities (such as the bestiality niche market) and the politics of putting women's sexual pleasure on display (the "squirting" market) as part of the larger democratic project. Arguing against this project, she shows that sexual pleasure is not a human right. Unlikely convergences between thinkers like Catherine MacKinnon, Jean Baudrillard, Judith Butler, and Jean-François Lyotard allow her to formulate a theory of the relationships between sex, speech, and power that stands as an alternative to such cyber-libertarian mottos as "freedom of speech" and "sexual freedom."


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