Publicizing the President's Privates
In: Postmodern culture, Band 9, Heft 3
ISSN: 1053-1920
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In: Postmodern culture, Band 9, Heft 3
ISSN: 1053-1920
"Over the course of the nineteenth century in both Europe and the United States, the state usurped the traditional authority of the church in regulating sexual expression and behavior. In the same century philosophers of classical liberalism identified that state function as a threat to individual liberty. Since then, liberalism has provided the framework for debates over obscenity around the globe. But liberalism has recently been under siege, on the one side from postmodern thinkers skeptical about its andro- and ethnocentric assumptions, and on the other side from religious thinkers doubtful of the moral integrity of the Enlightenment project writ large. The principal challenge for those who conduct academic work in this realm is to formulate new models of research and analysis appropriate to understanding and evaluating speech in the present-day public sphere. Toward those ends, Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism contains a selection of essays and interventions by prominent authors and artists in a variety of disciplines and media. These writings, taken as a whole, put recent developments into historical and global contexts and chart possible futures for a debate that promises to persist well into the new millennium"--Publisher's description.
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION Pornography, Technology, Archive -- PART I Pedagogical Archives -- 1 Pornography, Porno, Porn: Thoughts on a Weedy Field -- 2 Pornography as a Utilitarian Social Structure: A Conversation with Frances Ferguson -- 3 The Opening of Kobena, Cecilia, Robert, Linda, Juana, Hoang, and the Others -- 4 Pornography in the Library -- PART II Historical Archives -- 5 "A Quantity of Offensive Matter": Private Cases in Public Places -- 6 Up from Underground -- 7 "A Few Drops of Thick, White, Viscid Sperm": Teleny and the Defense of the Phallus -- PART III Image Archives -- 8 Art and Pornography: At the Limit of Action -- 9 Big Black Beauty: Drawing and Naming the Black Male Figure in Superhero and Gay Porn Comics -- 10 Gay Sunshine, Pornopoetic Collage, and Queer Archive -- 11 This Is What Porn Can Be Like! A Conversation with Shine Louise Houston -- PART IV Rough Archives -- 12 Snuff and Nonsense: The Discursive Life of a Phantasmatic Archive -- 13 Rough Sex -- 14 "It's Not Really Porn": Insex and the Revolution in Technological Interactivity -- PART V Transnational Archives -- 15 Porno Rícans at the Borders of Empire -- 16 Butts, Bundas, Bottoms, Ends: Tracing the Legacy of the Pornochanchada in A b . . . profunda -- 17 Pornographic Faith: Two Sources of Naked Sense at the Limits of Belief and Humiliation -- 18 Parody of War: Pleasure at the Limits of Pornography -- PART VI Archives of Excess -- 19 Fantasy Uncut: Foreskin Fetishism and the Morphology of Desire -- 20 Stadler's Boys; or, The Fictions of Child Pornography -- 21 Stumped -- APPENDIX Clandestine Catalogs: A Bibliography of Porn Research Collections -- FILMOGRAPHY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX