To Christina:
Question:
Do you use the word pornography the same way Baudrillard uses it to mean, "..of harassing images themselves or making them suffer by exhausting their effects, even making the script they dreamed of(one hopes) into a sarcastic parody, a pornography of images." -
from Jean Baudrillard, The Conspiracy of Art pg. 112
sorry if this is off topic, my first post...
thoughts on porn
what is shut down is not shut down by decadent obscenity
the culture has split into acceptable versus non acceptible eroticism - it used to be that nudity in art was simply another possibility for the image - now it is contested terrain culturally
porn shuts down the acceptible register of image intake - 21st century problematizes sex because of the extreme virulence of image transmission reproduction dissemination storage recall and other - privacy is not possible due to surveillance and networks, so...
the only way to keep reproduction special is to make its process taboo
we have movies that include a love scene as an integral part of its plot, say the hero becomes inspired to defend the castle because of the lady's love
the scene directly after the graceful fade out of lovemaking is him on the battle field
this gloss or ellipses stays on the acceptibility side of portraying sex
if the scene was hardcore triple xxx the jump to the battlefield would be more complicated
by the same token, if triple xxx were to accurately portray the emotional vulnerabilities sometimes exposed in sex the viewer would be exposed to the very "strings attached" porn, easy sex, decadent nightlife, spring break tries to avoid
our culture is split and this split anchors our ways of thinking regarding love, pleasure, acceptibility, the law, so many things...
just thoughts, thank you for reading!!! hopefully I'll figure out how to better work post.thing.net thanks
I really don't have much a problem with pornography i think the word has gotten a bad reputation considering how open people are in other countries even when getting london escorts they know your from over seas and things aren't the same.
re sense of 'pornography' of images
Not exactly, although I am sympathetic to the passionate disgust that Baudrilliard brings to his judgement. Too much closure in Baudrilliard's sentiments, doesn't quite work for me.
I just referred recently to 'pornography' in the sense that images of disaster seem to just pile up on one another, endlessly referring to each other. You can just become desensitized to the proliferation of images so that you just don't care. You can turn your back. It's kind of an instrumentation, or instrumentality of disaster images that they purport to bring disaster to our attention only to anaesthetize attention. Maybe it's a bit like pornography being not about the individual but more about just getting off on the images of humans who may be individuals, it's irrelevant who they are. But as with pornography it 's not interesting to ban porn or to not show disaster images on televison or the internet, I am not an iconoclast. I guess i just feel like porn shuts something down at the moment that it is also in the process of arousing, and this seems similar to what one feels looking at a glut of images of disaster. Somehow the site of the suffering just like the site of sex is frozen into a series of discontinuous fragments out of context and forgetable. anaesthesia, amnesia. Forget about it.
Christina McPhee
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