[Netporn-l] hi-re pics for press coverage
artists and digital pornographers, we need high-resolution pictures for the press kit and press coverage before and after the conference. if you like the idea, you are invited to send me ASAP some samples of your works (big attachments are ok, but please not gigabytes!) with coordinates for credits and notice of copyright (creative commons or not). international stardom guaranteed. cheers /m ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org wiki: http://www.networkcultures.org/wiki/index.php?title=Netporn links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] new links
new links via luca martinazzoli, /m Suicidegirls internal affairs http://un-pink.blogspot.com An upcoming exhibit in LA: Web affairs http://www.theeroticmuseum.com/them/UpcomingExhibitions/webaffairs.htm ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org wiki: http://www.networkcultures.org/wiki/index.php?title=Netporn links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] It's a bring-your-bookmarks conference
Ladies, gentlemen and forms-of-life, countdown started. We are looking forward to meet you. You know, it's quite an experimental conference, we are outsiders and beginners: netporn is a huge underworld of hermetic cults and a new overworld of mass phenomena that are impossible to map in two days. We used a classical approach, papers and panels, to such a chaotic matter, but it's not what you think. Don't hesitate to present your ideas, projects and bookmarks during your physical and digital partecipation to the debate. Yes, we selected among people who replied to our call for ideas, we will use a panel format but they will look more like open and collective talks. And we will mix artists and managers, dj and academics, around a delicate line, because we need no more to epater-les-bourgeois. Indeed, we want to explore: bring your porn bookmarks. And don't forget the saturday night party with PhagOff Girlswholikeporno (yes, they are coming) and the convivial dinner on friday! More info soon. Quite busy and over-excited. Maybe I forgot something, sorry. It's a last-minute message, perfect for a lowcost conference. Welcome to Amsterdam and to the Netporn Conf! Matteo ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org wiki: http://www.networkcultures.org/wiki/index.php?title=Netporn links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] DESTROY.HOT.ACTION ~ long live the new flesh
when digital porn is more about digital than porn! vjs, something for you. it would have been perfect for the netporn conf imagery. maybe next one? it's quite a recent blog... i missed it. /m http://www.destroyhotaction.com memepool: ... takes porn clips and visually mangles and distorts them into something like abstract art. ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org wiki: http://www.networkcultures.org/wiki/index.php?title=Netporn links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] X-Sites - Sex im Internet, Berlin 16.12
http://store.newthinking.de/veranstaltungen/x-sites-sex-im-internet X-Sites - Sex im Internet Friday 16 December 2005 07:00PM - 10:00PM Es wird der Versuch unternommen, sich des Phänomens Sex im Internet im doppelten Sinne von Aufklärung anzunehmen und einige Spotlights auf dieses genuine Feld zeitgenössischer Kultur zu richten. Pornographie und erotische Seiten im Internet (im folgenden: x-Sites) stellen ein Phänomen von erheblicher Größenordnung dar, nach unterschiedlichen Schätzungen zwischen 20 und 80 % des gesamten Internet-Traffics. Es ist damit klar, dass Millionen von Menschen sich oft oder gar täglich x-Sites anschauen bzw. sich aktiv an Partner-Suchen, Chats, Blogs, erotischen Literaturforen etc. beteiligen. Jenseits der Anonymität des Nets hingegen scheint das alles kein Thema zu sein. Mit der Diskussionsveranstaltung x-Sites – Sex im Internet wird der Versuch unternommen, sich dieses Phänomens im doppelten Sinne von Aufklärung anzunehmen und einige Spotlights auf dieses genuine Feld zeitgenössischer Kultur zu richten. Denn x-Sites sind eben nicht einfach nur eine Übertragung traditioneller Pornographie-Formen (zu denen in einigen Teilen ja z.B. auch Kunst und Literatur zu rechnen sind) ins Internet, sondern haben das erotische Spektrum in quantitativer und qualitativer Hinsicht extrem erweitert. Dem Mainstream, der (nur!) rund 10 Prozent der x-Sites bildet, steht eine enorme Vielfalt spezialisiertester Fetische gegenüber, seien es Vorlieben für große Nasen oder für Gummistiefel. Hinzu kommen viele Formen von Interaktion, so etwa Rollenspiele in Muds u.ä., bei denen als Freiheitsgrad hinzukommt, dass das wahre Geschlecht der beteiligten User verborgen bleibt. Auch Erscheinungen wie das Genre Indie-Porn weisen darauf hin, dass x- Sites (auch) ein emanzipatorisches und positives utopisches Moment besitzen. Mag es im Internet an mancher Stelle Überrepräsentation von Sex geben, darf man doch konstatieren, dass es als erstes Medium je die tatsächlichen Wünsche und Fantasien der Menschen abbildet. Vielleicht vollzieht sich erst jetzt - im Internet -, was dereinst 'sexuelle Revolution' genannt wurde. Unsere Veranstaltung versucht jedenfalls ohne allzu große Hemmungen neu zu denken. Ausgehend von Statistiken, die Anfragen bei Suchmaschinen auswerten und ein aussergewöhnlich exaktes Abbild sexueller Wuensche ermöglichen, wollen wir gemeinsam einige besondere x-Sites betrachten, um ihr weites Spektrum überhaupt vorstellbar zu machen. Schliesslich wollen wir darüber sprechen, was das für unsere Sexualität und unsere Kultur bedeutet. Die Veranstaltung ist nicht jugendfrei. Referenten: Andreas Schaale Berlin und ist von Haus aus Kernphysiker. Als einer der Mitbegründer des, u.a. auf Suchtechnologie spezialisierten, Unternehmens contraco – Consulting Software leitet er die Abteilung Forschung und Wissenschaft. Er entwickelt und publiziert u.a. zu Themen wie Such- und Filteralgorithmen für Suchmaschinen, sowie Riskomanagement. Florian Cramer Berlin, Literaturwissenschaftler, publiziert u.a. über Literatur, Computer und Softwarekunst, Verfasser - gemeinsam mit Stewart Home - eines Aufsatzes über Netzpornographie Dahlia Schweitzer New York, Berlin, B.A. in English und Studio Arts an der Wesleyan University. Sie umschreibt ihren Beruf mit Creative Director; Sängerin und Bassistin in der von ihr gegründeten Elektro-Punk-Band Galvanized, Fotografin, Performance-Künstlerin und Autorin. Moderation: Manuel Bonik Berlin, arbeitet als Autor, DJ, Künstler, Kurator und IT-Berater ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org wiki: http://www.networkcultures.org/wiki/index.php?title=Netporn links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Katrien's show at Transmediale
We forgot to mention officially that Katrien is going to perform at Transmediale, Berlin, supported by her groupies. All the netporn crew will be aroud trying to emulate the Amsterdam memories... see you soon. /m --- Friday, February 3, 16:00 - 18:00 Panel 3 Transgressions Moderation: Schade, Sigrid [de] Akademie der Künste Transgressions Contemporary culture is characterised by the paradoxical juxtaposition of excess and control. While the transgression of aesthetical and moral borders is becoming as normal as the daily dose of shock and horror, we also learn to live with increasingly rigid mechanisms of control and exclusion. This panel deals with artistic and theoretical aspects of this antagonism between extreme freedom and control. Are there any more ethical borders or walls against which art can rebel? And how significant are the aesthetic strategies of transgression within today's reality? Panel Members: Hauser, Jens [de] Jacobs, Katrien [nl] Shu Lea Cheang [us/fr] [ + picture of the shy Katrien: http://www.transmediale.de/page/ detail/detail.0.persons.649.3.html ] ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Interview with an ex-sex text worker
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[Netporn-l] South Africa, Local Porn Website deadline looming
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=showid=5074 Local Porn Website deadline looming By: MyADSL, 5 December 2006 posted on 12-05-2006. The Film and Publication Board’s (FPB) deadline of 31 December 2006 for local pornographic websites to discontinue the distribution of adult material on the internet is looming, but unhappiness regarding this decision remains. According to a press statement released by the Film and Publication Board: “Internet distributors of adult material have until 31 December 2006 to discontinue the distribution of adult material on the internet. Distribution of adult material on the internet is in contravention with section 24 of the Films and Publications Act.” Whilst the Act has been in place for a while the regulation of online material has added a new element to regulation of adult content in SA. The FPB’s official stand on online porn “Distribution of adult material on the internet is in contravention with section 24 of the Films and Publications Act. Anyone distributing after the above set date will be punished accordingly as stipulated in the Act,” said the FPB. The Board stated that they were implementing tougher regulation of adult content due to the many complaints received from the public. “In view of a number of complaints from the public regarding the distribution and exhibition of materials containing depictions, descriptions or sequences of sexual conduct via the internet, by mail- order and through mobile cellular phones, the Board advises the South African Police Services to investigate and charge any person using above-mentioned media for distribution of films, interactive computer games or publications which have either not been classified by the Board or classified ‘XX’ or ‘X18’,” said the FPB. Distributors of adult content can request a license from the FPB which will allow them to continue business but there are strict conditions attached to the license: 1. Such distribution or exhibition takes place within premises forming part of a building, 2. Notices prohibiting entry to such premises by any person under the age of 18 years is clearly displayed at all entrances to such premises and, 3. No material classified “X18” is displayed in such a way that it is visible from a point outside the premises. Online distributors struggle to be legal A group called Adultlinks.co.za investigated the issuing of these licenses only to find that a procedure was not yet in place. According to the petition on the Adultlinks website ( http:// petition.adultlinks.co.za/ ), “We have been in contact with FPB to establish how an adult site can comply with the act (and thus pay the prescribed fees and get a classification for a website), and reading between the lines we have learnt that the FPB is not geared to apply a classification to a website.” The reason, according to the Adultlinks petition, why it is so difficult is because the Act deals with physical locations, printed media, video media and distributorship of material within these physical venues. Problems arise due to the nature of a website or Internet material falling within the realm of the virtual world and therefore outside the bounds of the stipulations given within the Act. Adultlinks stated that, “because the FPB has no way of classifying sites, a general attitude of ‘If we can't regulate it, it must be shut down’ becomes very clear.” A petition against the restrictive regulation of adult content has been launched by Adultlinks and they are urging interested consumers to make their voices count before SA sites are forced to close down. The reason they feel this latest development from the FPB must be stopped is because it harkens back to the days when adult content in South Africa was tightly regulated and citizens were told what was acceptable and what not. “All in all, the current situation reeks of old apartheid censorship, where government decides what you may or may not see, and I for one, am not going to take this lying down,” said Adultlinks spokesperson. ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] 23C3 Berlin: Pornography and Technology
23rd Chaos Communication Congress, Berlin Pornography and Technology, by Tina Lorenz http://events.ccc.de/congress/2006/Fahrplan/events/1422.en.html Tina Lorenz's blog + video recording of the talk http://www.haecksen.org/~tina/blog/ Notes by WMMNA http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/009235.php Abstract: Pornography is an abstract phenomenon. It cannot exist without a medium to propagate it, and it has very little (if anything at all) to do with sex. The relationship between pornography, which is entirely fictional and sex, which is very real, very sweaty and mostly not a very aesthetic thing is something like the correlation of science-fiction literature and technological innovation: sometimes the ideas are bizarre, completely nuts and would never work without a Heisenberg Compensator - but sometimes some fragment lasts and is taken to the real world. The key to pornography is perception; perception is passive and naturally conceptional, since the eye and the brain have to translate the image (be it letters, a painting or a frame from a movie) into sexual stimulations and 'make something of it'. This is hard cognitive work that requires media competence and a high degree of ability to abstract. Contrary to the strong wish of authenticity and realism that prevails in most of the consumers, the techniques of sexual stimulation by pornography (and its side products like sex toys, for example) have become ever more fictional and not corporeal. We had to learn how to be sexually stimulated by something so far away from sex and all that precedes it that it seems almost impossible we managed it. The relationship between pornography and technology has always been a love story of sorts: new developments in technology were an inviting incentive for the emerging porno industry which in turn, as it became more powerful, was supposed to have had enough weight to influence specific technological innovations. In all this, idealism did not surface; the power of what worked and therefore paid and what did not was entirely in the hands of the (predominantly male) customers, who were assumed to be techno-savvy. The porno industry was very open- minded and experimental, and in the quest of the next hot thing that sells, interesting approaches were made. Typically, it's the porno industry that makes new developments interesting and available for the masses: one of the first fields of application of proprietary streaming solutions for example was the Cam Girls phenomenon: girls at home on their beds, who streamed their stamp-sized webcam pictures to dozens and hundreds of customers at the same time in real time. And just think of the remote-controlled dildo operated via online interface by a customer thousands of miles away at his computer. Although Pornography may not be the number one factor geeks think about when they dream up new products and new standards (they usually dream about porn seperately, if they are not Zwiebeltuete fetishists), it features largely in the consideration if something new is going to be hot or not. ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] altpornbucks.com
[ via our LA-based agent luca martinazzoli] the cheesy way to 'indie porn' syndication and the definitive branding of the term. /m http://altpornbucks.com/ Altpornbucks.Com, Officially Launched Today January 3, 2007 As The First Webmaster Program That Focuses 100% On The Alt Porn Niche, Beating Out Our Future Competitors Which Are Slated To Launch Later This Year. In Early 2006 Alt Porn Bucks Signed Noted Director Blaise Christie To Produce Content For Its Flagship Site Electrofilms.Com. Christie Has Shot Some Of The Hottest Alt-Porn Talent In Southern California In Exclusive Solo And Boy-Girl Scenes. As A True Innovator And Artist Christie Posts His Trailers On Viral Websites Such As Youtube And Myspace To Share His Creations Free Of Charge. ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Nouvelle vague porn, conference [Barcelona]
http://www.macba.es/controller.php? p_action=show_pagepagina_id=33inst_id=22310lang=ENG 31/03/2007 MACBA Nouvelle vague porn Conference In the late 1990s, a number of French porn actors and actresses began to make their own films and to think critically about their pornographic practice, giving rise to an unprecedented way of portraying sexuality which, to paraphrase the term coined by André Bazin, could be described as «nouvelle vague porn». These directors, who defy classification simply as pornographers or filmmakers, have adopted a new policy of the gaze and are influenced by trash literature, Baudelaire, Bukowski and Lydia Lunch, horror films, punk and goth culture, American feminist «pro-sex» movements and Annie Sprinkle’s traditional critique of pornography. The aim of the night-time session, which is a porno film forum and a critical and performance space, is to explore this new pornographic vanguard: the confluence between the aesthetics and cultures that are emerging in French porn films and from feminist, post-feminist and pro-porn political movements and their discourses and which are producing new sexual models in opposition to those that currently prevail. In this seminar, priority is given in representation and discourse to the porn actors and actresses who have made the emergence of a «pornographic subject» possible through their own productions and auto-fictional writings. - Program This conference is a part of the open PEI program SATURDAY, MARCH 31 6 pm Linda Williams: The Pornographic Subject 7 pm Round table with Manuel Asensi, Beatriz Preciado and Linda Williams Break 10 pm Beatriz Preciado: Porn nouvelle vague 11 pm Coralie Trinh-Thi: Porn for Dummies 11.30 pm HPG: Mon vis, mon oeuvre 1 am Performance by Lydia Lunch: Pornographic memoirs - Inscription begins march 15 - Price Free enrollment MACBA Auditorium. Limited space [ bio in spanish only ] Participantes Manuel Asensi es profesor titular del Departamento de Teoría de los Lenguajes en la Facultad de Filología de la Universidad de Valencia y director del Programa de Estudios Independientes del MACBA, bienio 2006-2007, donde imparte, junto con Xavier Antich, Teoría y Crítica del Discurso. HPG son las iniciales de Hervé Pierre Gustave, actor, productor y director de cine porno. Precursor del gonzo en Francia y objeto de una severa crítica feminista, HPG es, junto con Coralie Thrin-Thi y Ovidie, el centro del debate francés sobre la nueva pornografía. En 2003 publica HPG, autobiografía de un actor porno (Hachette). Ha realizado numerosas películas de porno independiente (La bombe HPG, Hypergolique, Cannes you fuck yourself, etc.) en las que reivindica un porno avant-garde y no comercial. En 2005, su película On devrait pas exister atraviesa un umbral cinematográfico y es aceptada en la quincena del Festival de Cannes. Lydia Lunch es cantante, escritora y actriz. Emerge en 1976 con su grupo Teenage Jesus The Jerks en el underground neoyorquino, donde participa en la creación de una estética punk y no wave, junto con músicos como Nick Cave, Sonic Youth y Die Haut. Colabora también con directores de cine como Richard Kern, de teatro experimental como Emilio Cubeiro y con poetas punk como Exene Cervenka, con los que produce representaciones inéditas de la sexualidad femenina. Entre sus libros se encuentra Paradoxia: Diario de una predadora (La Máscara, 2000), hoy un clásico del feminismo punk. Su último álbum es Deviations on a theme (2006). Beatriz Preciado es filósofa, profesora de Teoría del Género en la Universidad de París VIII-Saint Denis y profesora de Tecnologías del Género en el Programa de Estudios Independientes del MACBA, bienio 2006-2007. Autora de numerosos textos de teoría queer, publicará próximamente Testo Yonqui y Vigilar y Complacer: las casas Playboy. Coralie Trinh-Thi es actriz porno, codirectora, junto con Virginie Despentes, de la polémica película Baise-moi (2000), y escritora de novelas, cómics y guías sexuales (Betty Monde, París, 2001). Su último libro, La Voie humide (2007, Éditions Diable Vauvert) relata en 900 páginas su experiencia en la industria de la pornografía. Linda Williams es catedrática en los departamentos de Retórica y Estudios Cinematográficos de la Universidad de Berkeley, California. Es autora de Hard Core: Power, Pleasure and the Frenzy of the Visible (U.C. Press, 1989/1999) y Porn Studies (Duke U.P., 2004), entre otros. ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Berlin Queer Festival
From: Poopsy Club [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 10 March 2007 20:06:00 GMT+01:00 Hi everybody! we are glad to announce the first queer festival in berlin on the 19th-22nd april and it is called BERLIN QUEER FESTIVAL. If you like to receive the festival's newsletter write to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] you can find the complete program here: www.berlinqueerfestival.net www.myspace.com/berlinqueerfestival queer gruesse poopsy club team Poopsy Club mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] web site:www.poopsyclub.com my space:www.myspace.com/poopsyclub ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] open lab: pornonom - Vienna
open lab: pornonom. Ein Versuch über Heteronomie und Sex [An Experiment on Heteronomy and Sex] http://www.tqw.at/Content.Node/en/stage/repertoire/stage_detail_e.php? ver_id=816 With: Marty Huber (A), Sabine Sonnenschein (A), Brigitte Wilfing (A).Guests: Stefan Nowotny (A), Robert Steijn (NL), Tim Stüttgen (D). Video documentation: Roman Hiksch (A). In this experiment, initiated by the performer Sabine Sonnenschein, pornographic films (hard-core porn as well as art films) are absorbed in the framework of settings, performatively overlayered, embedded in tantric rituals, analysed and discussed: In what way do images of bodies directly address our bodies? What semiotics is involved? What is the nature of pornographic filmic language? The research project brings together positions from performance and performance theory, fine art, philosophy and film studies. “The political relevance of our sexual maturity and dependence is obvious. We are sexually liberated, equal hedonists, steeped in power discourses but also full of sensitivity. Is the dildo the means of radical sexual gender equality that the anus promises us?” (Sabine Sonnenschein) Limited number of visitors. Registration at [EMAIL PROTECTED] or T: +43-1-5813591 is requested Pay as you wish ___ With the support of the City of Vienna, ttp WUK 04/05/2007 18.30 h TQW/Studios 04/10/2007 18.30 h TQW/Studios 04/14/2007 18.30 h TQW/Studios ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Sociable Sex. Seminars
Seminars at AHRC Research Centre for Law, Gender and Sexuality, University of Kent Summer Term 2007 Thursday 3 May 2007 2-5 pm Worshop: ‘Sociable Sex’ Antu Sorainen, PhD, Christina Institute for Women’s Studies, University of Helsinki: Queer Decency: Internet-pornography, paedophilia and child sex panic in Finland In 2004, the Ministry of Education in Finland published a memorandum that focused on the means to protect children from the media violence. In November 2006, a new law was passed on blocking the internet from the distribution of child-pornography. In two years time, from 2004 to 2006, the Finnish politics and public discussion on children’s protection shifted almost exclusively from violence to child-pornography and to pedophilia in the internet. In autumn 2006, the Finnish society faced “a child sex panic”: an internet-petition against the Dutch PNVD- party raised more than 165,000 names, of a total population of 5,2 million Finnish citizens. At the same time, an internet petition against the prohibition of the assisted insemination for self-reliant women and lesbian couples raised only 11 452 names. Lee Edelman has argued that “reproductive futurism” only permits one side and imposes an ideological limit on political discourse as such. How does this edelmanian “reproductive futurism” work in Finnish legislation and public discussions on paedophilia? John Binnie, Manchester University David Bell, Leeds University Mundane Spaces of Social and Anti-social Sex Our focus in this paper is exploratory, and works around the idea of the mundane in relation to sexuality, asking whether transgression has become mundane and lost its impact, and discussing queer in relation to sociality and the ordinary. Queer has often been seen as being associated with spectacle.—as in pride events, or camp -- but here we want to reclaim the understated banality of geographical (and other) work on queer. The paper will critically review the theorizing of sex in relation to the social, sociality and sociability, arguing that sex now seems invisible in queer theory -- and that the turn to the social risks marginalizing it even further. At the same time, however, new alliances and debates (eg around transgender, or polyamory versus promiscuity) provide new ways to think the sexual, the social and the anti-social. We will explore the ‘despectacularizing’ or ‘mundanizing’ of spaces such as gay villages or pride events, questioning their continuing role and impact, before moving on to consider constructions of ‘anti-social spaces of sex’ and ‘queer banalities’. Sasha Roseneil, Leeds University Sociability, Sexuality, Self: Personal Life in the Early 21st Century In the West, at the start of the 21st century, more and more people are spending longer periods of their lives outside conventional family and heterosexual relations. The conjugal couple and the modern family formation are increasingly fragile, and the normative grip of the sexual and gender order which has underpinned these institutions is weakening. In this context, much that matters to people in their personal lives increasingly takes place beyond the boundaries of “the family”, within networks of friends, between partners who are not bound together “as family”, and in inner worlds of self-experience. This paper proposes a new way of understanding recent social change in personal life. Its focus is on three dimensions of personal life - sociability, sexuality and self - the relationship between them, and transformations in their social organization. Engaging with debates in contemporary European social theory, my argument is two-fold: ontological and socio-historical. Firstly, I suggest that an adequate understanding of intimacy and personal life must be psycho-social, not just psychological or sociological, as most work on the subject has been. Drawing on psychoanalysis and feminist philosophy, and contra recent sociological theorists of individualization, I propose a model of subjectivity as both fundamentally relational and individual. Secondly, on the basis of research carried out in the UK, I argue that a set of queer, or counter-heteronormative, relationship practices are emerging amongst those at the cutting edge of social change: the prioritization of friendship, the de-centring of sexual/ love relationships and the forming of non-conventional sexual partnerships. Wednesday 30 May 2007 3-5pm Queer Agency, State Agency: Bodily Discipline, Laws and Beyond Corie Hammers, Department of Criminal Justice, Social and Political Science the Gender and Women’s Studies Program, Armstrong Atlantic State University, USA Making Space for an Agentic Sexuality: The Examination of Lesbian/ Queer Bathhouses This paper will briefly outline the history, philosophy and structure of two lesbian/queer bathhouses,
[Netporn-l] C'LICK ME - Public Display of Internet Pornography - June 2 - Amsterdam
[ hey, the complete text of the official announcement, just in case you like (and you like a lot) to forward it to lists and blogs out there. thanks. /m] C'LICK ME Public Display of Internet Pornography 2nd International Netporn Festival Paradiso, Amsterdam – Saturday, 2 June 2007, 1pm to 5am Website: www.c-lickme.nl List: www.listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org C'LICK ME is an event to investigate internet pornography in a non- conventional way. We are looking forward to a queer event without any rigid queer correctness (as queer doesn't always mean good porn!). We want to re-think the society of the netporn spectacle: the digital zeitgeist that has given us a hypersexual body. What to do with our bodies and digital machines? Pornography has found its way into every nook and cranny of the Internet, but how can we still be queer radicals or body artists, private hedonists or fervent bloggers in this climate? Do we still need to have a sanctified space like an underground or a dungeon, when we produce desire with our floating networked bodies? Porn went porn-chic years ago. Today netporn goes into Myspace bedrooms and everyday realcore. C'LICK ME is not only netporn displays, but strategies of public engagement and sharing thoughts about netporn. While creating a visibility of desire, we try to experiment with a new invisibility of identities. From the era of queer communities, we move into the culture of crossbreed pornography. Even amongst those horny mobs targeted by the netporn industry giants, people cherish their own queer varieties. Netporn means the messy process of personal affections and anomalies melting into the databases of porn masses. In the era of pornification of mainstream imagery, there is no more society without netporn, but a lot has to be done to sexualize the critical multitudes. Queer and net activists, theorists and artists once again gather in Amsterdam to discuss the growing pains of autonomous culture zones, but also netporn as sexwork, production of affective commodities and one of the biggest global markets. C'LICK ME wants to create a networked debate, continuing the discourse started with the first Netporn Conference in 2005, that was organized by the Institute of Network Cultures in collaboration with Katrien Jacobs and Matteo Pasquinelli. This conference afterwards connected to other experiences across Europe and elsewhere, like the Porn Film festival and the Post Porn Politics symposium both held in Berlin in 2006. What does a “post-porn politics” mean after entering the digital realms of the network society? And what will be the destiny of the porn genre in the age of the affective technologies? Before brainstorming the dissolution of porn into commodities or its future explosion in global conflicts, our specific DIY contribution is an anti-essentialist and intoxicated event, with input from new publics, with a nostalgic embrace of (post) punk wet dreams and sex revolutions. Most of all, C'LICK ME invites you to experience the sexual evolution of the digital generation. Your stimulators, Katrien Jacobs, Matteo Pasquinelli and Marije Janssen Program - Day program C'LICK ME day program will feature an international selection of speakers from various disciplines presenting their views and thoughts in a performative setting. Guests, among others, are American film producer, sex blogger and writer Audacia Ray, multi-media artist and musician Terre Thaemlitz, post-porn theorist and performer Tim Stuttgen, 21 century activist Francesco Palmieri ‘Warbear', and genetic pornography demagogue, Adam Zaretsky. Visitors and participants will meet during the dinner, especially designed by food artist Patrick Faas for C'LICK ME. The day program will be hosted by Nat Muller. - Evening program The evening program features video and film screenings, which includes the European premiere of Audacia Ray's film The Bi Apple, the (least) favorite porn scenes brought to you by participants and celebrities, the bareback monologues and a soiree of irreverent porn acts. The evening program will be hosted by Bahram Sadeghi. - Night program As the evening turns into night, C'LICK ME invites you to an unforgettable party with in the main hall: Dj Sprinkles a.k.a. Terre Thaemlitz, live performances by: Khan of Finland en LeClic and Dj's Sandrien and Abraxas. Get sweaty on the dance floor or lose yourself in the underground atmosphere created in the small hall by the Phag Off collective from Rome who for the first time will collaborate with Cruise Control queer crew. Team Plastique will perform live. If this is too much you can relax in the basement and listen to the whispered dirty stories in the ‘For Your Ears Only' project by SXNDRX. List of participants: Audacia Ray, Terre Thaemlitz, Tim Stuttgen, Warbear, Florian Cramer, Lotte Hoek, Feona
[Netporn-l] INFOWARROOM | 30 mei | De Balie
[ for all the people in a'dam, featuring katrien jacobs /m ] INFOWARROOM Woensdag 30 mei Aanvang 20.30 uur Toegang gratis INFOWARROOM biedt mediakritiek en beeldanalyse van de dominante beeldcultuur. Temidden van een overdaad aan beelden wordt duiding gezocht bij de culturele en sociale betekenis van het beeld. ‘So it is not: I exist, I am here! But rather: I am visible, I am an image – look! Look!’ (Jean Baudrillard, 1993) Voorbij de verbazing over het massamediale fenomeen dat mensen buiten hun representatie - buiten de media - niet meer lijken te bestaan, richt de INFOWARROOM zich op de onzichtbare beelden, de visuele minderheden, de mediale uitgeslotenen. Een avond vol beeld over het residu van de door de dominante mediacultuur gefilterde samenleving, in heden en verleden. Hoe bepalen massamedia en beeldcultuur, die schijnbaar alles zichtbaar maken, dominantie en marginaliteit van mensen, groepen en ideeën? Een avond over media, elites en minderheden, en de macht over de eigen representatie. MET Andrea Meuzelaar (mediawetenschapper, Universiteit van Amsterdam) spreekt, via Foucault, over 'het archief' als selectiecriterium voor ons collectieve/ culturele geheugen, 'tagging' en visuele selectie. In gesprek met filmmaker Erik de Bruijn (WILDE MOSSELS, 2000 / NADINE, première september 2007) over uitsluiting en inclusiviteit in drama, kadrering van het 'onzichtbare' en ideologische afperking. Huub Dijstelbloem (filosoof en coördinator Technology Assessment bij het Rathenau Instituut) bespreekt hoe technologie in het huidige migratiebeleid (botonderzoek, databanken) tot een technologisering van het burgerschapstraject leidt. Bespiegelingen van Gawie Keyser (cultuurrecensent, Groene Amsterdammer) over de media, Cho Seung-Hui en Virginia Tech. Hans Harbers (filosoof, Philosophy of Science, Technology Society, Universiteit Groningen) analyseert het begrip van uitsluiting als een normalisatie van handelingspraktijken en technologie Marges in de man-vrouwdichotomie: Nimfa Tegenbos (artistiek-sociaal centrum Victoria Deluxe, Gent) en Katrien Jacobs (Digital Media, City University of Hong Kong; organisator C'LICK ME) bespreken transseksualiteit en queerness tussen internet pornografie en de digitale Zeitgeist. Martijn Wit (historicus, Universiteit Twente) introduceert het minderheidsargument als retorisch wapen en toont de werking van intellectuele gettoficatie. En een videochat met Sami al-Hajj, Soedanees journalist voor Al Jazeera Symbolische impact, schreef Baudrillard in ‘The despair of having everything’ (2002), is van groter belang dan politieke impact. Symboliek, op haar beurt, bestaat bij de gratie van zichtbaarheid. Dat is de tragiek van de visueel uitgeslotenen : ze kunnen gillen wat ze willen, maar zonder camera zijn ze nergens, zonder geschikte zoekterm onvindbaar. Een avond dus over onzichtbaren, paradoxaal genoeg een avond vol beelden. Beelden die tonen hoe ze definiëren, afbakenen, taggen en door te tonen juist verhullen dat ze al het andere niet laten zien. Iets bestaat pas als het zichtbaar is en iets is pas zichtbaar wanneer het vindbaar is. Dus zijn het de beelden zelf of de eraan toegekende kwalificaties - die ons al dan niet in staat stellen ze terug te vinden - die ons wereldbeeld bepalen? De INFOWARROOM is ook te volgen via www.balie.nl/live ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Pornoster strijdt tegen bestialiteit
[ sorry article in dutch, it's a campaign against animal exploitation in the porn industry. i know it's another marketing strategy but sounds very subbacultcha! maybe a dutch speaker can comment it properly. /m] Pornoster strijdt tegen bestialiteit http://www.volkskrant.nl/binnenland/article465318.ece/ Pornoster_strijdt_tegen_bestialiteit ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Rated-X Amsterdam Alternative Erotica Film Festival, 15-18 Nov. 2007
[ all info here, greets from a'dam. /m ] http://www.videoinferno.nl ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] Symposium: The Future of Sexuality, Amsterdam
[ late announcement, just for your records. /m ] Symposium: The Future of Sexuality Amsterdam, 29 Nov 2007 http://www.clubofamsterdam.com/event.asp?contentid=720 When you think how much sexuality has changed in just the last 40 years, and how the internet, like everything else it touches, is accelerating this change, it takes a brave prognosticator to put their head above the parapet and tell us how sex is going to be practiced, depicted and talked about in the future. Nonetheless, the cool-but-a-bitnerdy Club of Amsterdam is gathering to discuss the Future of Sexuality on Thursday. Providing a wealth of steamy food for thought: Marie-Louise Janssen, lecturer in gender studies at UvA’s Department of Political Science talks about ‘Paid Sex and Public Space’; Melissa Gira, editor of San Francisco-based Sexerati.com (‘The Story of i’: Sex in the Information Age), and cyber-entrepreneur Luc Sala no doubt dishing out his usual techno- shamanic iconoclasm with sexuality: the back door into our essence. Moderated by Mirjam Schieveld, head of the Summer Institute, International School for Humanities and Social Sciences. [source: www.amsterdamweekly.nl] ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret (Paris)
[ via http://www.sensotheque.com/cgi-bin/sensotheque.cgi? cat=2order=_CatId=SB_BookId=141 ] http://www.bnf.fr/pages/cultpubl/exposition_731.htm Exposition: L'Enfer de la Bibliothèque, Eros au secret 04 décembre 2007 - 02 mars 2008, site François-Mitterrand / Grande Galerie, Paris Pour le grand public contemporain, l'Enfer de la Bibliothèque s'entend comme une légende, un fantasme, le territoire majeur de l'interdit qui alimente en retour toutes les curiosités. Mais l'écart est grand entre ce mythe et la réalité. Aussi l'ambition de l'exposition que la BnF consacre à cette part obscure de ses collections consiste-t-elle à lever le voile sur la vérité de l'Enfer. Il convient d'abord de retracer l'histoire, pleine de surprises, de la constitution de ce lieu abstrait, mental – une « cote », un numéro de classement qui le désigne à la consultation « réservée » – où sont rassemblés textes et images réputés contraires aux bonnes mœurs. L'exposition propose un double parcours. L'un concerne l'histoire : comment l'Enfer s'est-il constitué au département des Imprimés et au département des Estampes ? Comment a-t- il évolué ? Le second propose une déambulation à travers le contenu de l'Enfer : quels sont les livres, les documents, les images que l'on a classés là ? Ces parcours à travers la littérature telle qu'elle n'est pas enseignée vont à la rencontre d'un monde imaginaire où les personnages obéissent à toutes les fantaisies du désir, où l'excès de la parole devient pamphlétaire et le discours politique, pornographique. Ce monde c'est celui de l'anonymat, du pseudonyme, des fausses adresses, des dates trompeuses, des éditeurs clandestins, des lieux clos, celui des couvents, des boudoirs, des bordels, des prisons mais aussi des bibliothèques. Des écrivains tels que Sade, Apollinaire, Louÿs, Bataille et quelques autres en sont les acteurs à jamais anonymes de la célébration de l'érotisme et du sexe entre le XVIe et le XXe siècle. Une large place est offerte aux premières manifestations de la photographie pornographique et de même sont exposées les estampes japonaises entrées à la Bibliothèque grâce à la générosité des premiers collectionneurs occidentaux. Exposition interdite aux moins de 16 ans. En partenariat avec : Le Monde, Le Monde 2, evene.fr, Paris Première, France Inter et la RATP Mardi - samedi de 10 h à 19 h Dimanche de 13 h à 19 h sauf lundi et jours fériés tarif plein : 7.00 euros tarif réduit : 5.00 euros ___ Netporn Mailing List Netporn-l@listcultures.org list: http://listcultures.org/mailman/listinfo/netporn-l_listcultures.org links: http://del.icio.us/netporn
[Netporn-l] review of: The Future of Sexuality, Amsterdam
source: http://www.amsterdamweekly.nl/pdf/volume4/ AmsterdamWeekly_Issue49_6December.pdf WEB KAMA SUTRA The future of that most ultimate of indoor activities. By Jules Marshall It was a disappointment to enter the Waag on Thursday night for a seminar on the Future of Sexuality and find a room full of middle-aged men. Where were all those earnest, sex-positive twenty-somethings? And what about women? Technology is driving perhaps the most rapid evolution of sexuality in human history, so you might think the topic would be of interest to a slightly broader demographic, especially on the cusp of Amsterdam’s Red Light District. Yet this Club of Amsterdam event, featuring Dutch scholars and a San Francisco-based sex writer video-linked to the discussion by Skpe, fell strangely flat. In fact, you might say, the evening was a study in frustration, with confused, awkward pauses caused by technological glitches, teasing hints at conclusions that were then withdrawn, and intellectual promises gone, ultimately, unconsummated. Marie-Louise Janssen, lecturer in gender studies at University of Amsterdam’s Political Science Department started off the evening with a discussion of ‘Paid Sex and Public Space’. A cultural anthropologist who began her post-college life working with sex workers in Latin America, Janssen treated prostitution just like any other industry, such as catering or horticulture, arguing for stronger trade union and better education on civil rights. ‘It’s not prostitutes that are the problem but those around them taking their profits,’ she concluded, fairly, but not very originally. The time she’d spent discussing people trafficking and labour rights left very little for addressing any kind of sexuality, let alone the futuristic kind. The event then became frustrating for purely technical reasons. Melissa Gira, editor of San Francisco-based Sexerati.com, a slick, kaleidoscopic online magazine focused on contemporary sexuality, started her presentation on ‘The Story of i: Sex in the Information Age’ but only got as far as saying she wouldn’t talk about cybersex or virtual reality sex because, ‘The net is not about removing people but bringing them closer together and deepening personal relationships’ when her Skype connection froze mid-sentence. Ten minutes of cable twiddling couldn’t bring her back, so local cyberentrepreneur and intellectual gadfly Luc Sala stepped in to reminisce about how, in the early ’90s as a publisher and writer of techno magazines and books, he’d been titillated by promises of virtual sex and ‘teledildonics’ (the rather clumsy neologism for attaching sex toys to the internet for sex-at-a-distance). But neither of those materialized. ‘We thought we were the New Edge,’ Sala lamented. ‘What went wrong?” Realizing that Gira wasn’t going to return, Sala, a smart and original thinker flawed only by an over-developed self-promotional reflex, continued by discussing the sexual impact of new technologies— not just digital or mechanical (such as USB dildoes), but psycho-therapeutic tools, advances in plastic surgery (vaginal rejuvenation; penile implants), and chemical aids to sex (from Viagra to LSD). Cybersex may be a cheap, safe alternative to flesh-2-flesh ho-hum sex, but it was also addictive and anti-social. ‘Realtime but not reality-based,’ Sala said, adding that it had not actually made sex any more fun. The ancient technologies of yoga and Tantra, he said, had been more fruitful to him in his personal quest for sexual enlightenment. He cited data that he had compiled on his website (www.net.info.nl), creating complex matrices of every imaginable aspect of sexuality, from analingus to zoophilia. He concluded that, ‘Most people never get even close to achieving their sexual potential.’ Once again, I felt our interest had been aroused only to be denied. Returning to the discussion on her mobile phone, having waited patiently through Sala’s talk, Melissa Gira said she was optimistic about sex in the information age. Social networks, mobile computing, DIY porn and other means of promoting a democratization of sexuality were great leaps forward, she said. But by this stage of the evening her observations were too dense, too theoretical and too late. Mirjam Schieveld, head of the Summer Institute at the International School for Humanities and Social Sciences had introduced the program by saying that the topic was indeed challenging: ‘It’s hard enough to ask “what sexuality?” and “whose sexuality?” let alone contemplate the “future of sexuality”,’ she said. ‘We don’t expect any answers tonight, but there will be plenty of material for discussion.’ And material there was—it was just too diffused to achieve anything. The Club of Amsterdam should be commended for attempting to address the complexity of social questions related to the rapid evolution of sexuality, but reminded that just as in sex, dryness is anathema to interpersonal communication—and it’s not wise to rely on
