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A Note on Pornography and Violence

  • Mantas Kvedaravicius (author)
Chapter of: Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics: Desire, Affect, and Representation in Pornography(pp. 85–93)

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TitleA Note on Pornography and Violence
ContributorMantas Kvedaravicius (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0141.1.09
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/porno-graphics-and-porno-tactics/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightKvedaravicius, Mantas
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-05-26
Long abstractBroom handles and stool legs, cheap- champagne and Coke bottles, plastic tubes with barbed wire and police batons are all shoved in people’s anuses to produce confessions, to force them to own up to crimes that they never committed or even imagined. Those wielding the tools hope this will help get them a promotion or keep within the demands of statistics, and will also give them pleasure. In other words these are legal instruments for making of thieves, terrorists, murderers, extremists, bandits, hooligans, or any sort of delinquent required by local economies and global politics. Indeed the materiality and the names of the tools testify to this: police batons are manufactured in rubber factories in little Russian towns, and stamped with revealing abbreviations such as PUS (palka universal’naia spetsial’naia, “special universal stick”) with clear specifications — “PUS-1 Argument,” “PUS-2 Argument B,” “PUS-3 Siurpriz,” “PUS-4 Kontakt” — language that speci-fies the violence inherent in these objects. Investigators’ offices, temporary detention facilities, military bases, penal colonies, tor-ture basements in police stations... These factories-of-law-cum-pleasure-playgrounds use the acronyms (ROVD, ORB, FSB, ORC, UBOP, RUBOP, OVD) that within local vernacular are substitutable and inextricable from the history of terror extending to the KGB and its affiliates.1 A lot has come out of these spaces: photographs, cellphone videos, journalist reports, legal documents, testimonies, interviews, stories told, retold, imagined, more signatures, confes-sions, trial recordings, legal protocols... Some sort of scene is built up of raped, mutilated, and objectified bodies, which seems to make violence compatible with pornography.
Page rangepp. 85–93
Print length9 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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Mantas Kvedaravicius

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