Pornotopia : an essay on Playboy's architecture and biopolitics


Beatriz Preciado
Bok Engelsk 2014
Utgitt
Brooklyn, N.Y. : Zone , 2014
Omfang
303 s. : ill.
Opplysninger
Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy became not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America, but also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle that took place in a series of utopian multimedia spaces, from the fictional Playboy's Penthouse of 1956 to the Playboy Mansion of 1959 and the Playboy Clubs of the 1960s. At the same time, the invention of the contraceptive pill offered access to a biochemical technique able to separate (hetero)sexuality and reproduction, troubling the traditional relationships between gender, sexuality, power, and space. Preciado traces the strategic relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality through popular sites related to the production and consumption of pornography: design objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds
Emner
Dewey
051
ISBN
9781935408482

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