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A Seductive Intrigue of Sexuality?

  • Sinan Goknur (author)
Chapter of: Porno-Graphics and Porno-Tactics: Desire, Affect, and Representation in Pornography(pp. 45–49)

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TitleA Seductive Intrigue of Sexuality?
ContributorSinan Goknur (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.21983/P3.0141.1.05
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/porno-graphics-and-porno-tactics/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightGoknur, Sinan
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2016-05-26
Long abstractWhile most critiques of – as well as support for – explicit sexuality are framed in terms of morality, exploitation, and misogyny vs. empowerment, agency and sexual liberation, Baudrillard’s polemi-cal twist invites us to reconsider the matter from a different angle. In his article “Dust Breeding,” he frames explicit sexuality (e.g., live sex events, porn, etc.) as yet another manifestation of our col-lective urge to demystify life into a banal reality.1 He disregards the possibility of liberation through acts that hasten sexuality into integral reality, when the very essence of power lies in ascribing to reality everything that was in the order of dreams. By integral reality, Baudrillard refers to the procedure, which is accelerated by modernity, whereby everything becomes real, visible, transpar-ent, “liberated,” and legible to cultural and political regimes and whereby there is no longer anything on which there is nothing to say. He argues that sexuality is at best a hypothesis, and that as a hypothesis it does not make sense to strive for a systematic “libera-tion” through affirming the act. Rather, he contends that explicit-ness merely causes sexuality to lose its authority and its aura, the essential qualities that it once took on through repression.
Page rangepp. 45–49
Print length5 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
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