Pornotopia

Pornotopia
Author :
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 304
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781942130260
ISBN-13 : 1942130260
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Pornotopia by : Paul Preciado

Download or read book Pornotopia written by Paul Preciado and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle through the construction of a series of utopian multimedia spaces — from the Playboy Mansion and fictional Playboy’s Penthouse of 1959 to the Playboy Clubs and hotels appearing around the world in the 1960s. Simultaneously, the invention of the contraceptive pill provided access to a biochemical technique that separated (hetero) sexuality and reproduction. Addressing these concurrent cultural shifts, Paul Preciado investigates the strategic relationships between space, gender, and sexuality in popular sites related to the production and consumption of pornography that have tended to reside at the margins of traditional histories of architecture: bachelor pads, multimedia rotating beds, and design objects, among others. Combining historical perspectives with contemporary critical theory, gender and queer theory, porn studies, the history of technology, and a range of primary transdisciplinary sources — treatises on sexuality, medical and pharmaceutical handbooks, architecture journals, erotic magazines, building manuals, and novels — Pornotopia explores the use of architecture as a biopolitical technique for governing sexual relations and the production of gender in the postwar United States.


Pornotopia Related Books

Pornotopia
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Paul Preciado
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-01 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle
Designing Pornotopia
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Rick Poynor
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Laurence King Publishing

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this collection of essays about visual culture, Rick Poynor directs a critical eye at brands, billboards, magazine, architecture, tattoos and trends in cosme
Community, Space and Online Censorship
Language: en
Pages: 284
Authors: Dr Scott Beattie
Categories: Law
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-02-28 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Internet censorship is a controversial topic - while the media periodically sounds alarms at the dangers of online life, the uncontrollable nature of the intern
An Apartment on Uranus
Language: en
Pages: 265
Authors: Paul B. Preciado
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-01-28 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

A “dissident of the gender-sex binary system” reflects on gender transitioning and political and cultural transitions in technoscientific capitalism. Uranus
Can the Monster Speak?
Language: en
Pages: 105
Authors: Paul B. Preciado
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-08-03 - Publisher: MIT Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Paul Preciado's controversial 2019 lecture at the École de la Cause Freudienne annual conference, published in a definitive translation for the first time. In