Pornotopia (eBook)

An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics

Paul Preciado (Autor)

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2014
304 Seiten
Zone Books (Verlag)
978-1-942130-26-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.10.2014
• Zusatzinfo: 27 b/w illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Alfred Kinsey • american male • Archigram • Arthur Letts • Atomic Age • Bachelor Apartment • bachelor pad • Beatriz Colomina • Bed-In • Behind the Green Door • Bettie Page • Boudoir • brothel • Bruce Goff • Centerfold • Chemosphere • Chuck Traynor • Counterculture • Cultural Hegemony • Decolonization • disneyfication • femininity • Fetish magazine • Fireplace • Furniture • Hair dryer • Hippie • Hollows (series) • Hollywood Star • Home appliance • Homosexuality • house beautiful • Housewife • Hugh Hefner • Interior design • International Style (architecture) • In the Bedroom • jenna jameson • John Willie • Judith Butler • Kim Novak • Kitsch • L'Age d'or • larry flynt • Le Corbusier • Magnum Photos • male gaze • Marilyn Monroe • Martha Stewart • Masculinity • Mattel • Micheline Bernardini • Modern Architecture • Modernity • Morality in Media • narrative • nightclub • nudity • orgy • Philip Johnson • photography • Playboy • playboy bunny • Playboy Enterprises • Playboy Mansion • popular culture • Pornographic film • Pornography • Pornotopia • Promiscuity • Prostitution • Publication • Publicity • red-light district • residence • ridicule • Robert de Niro • Robert Venturi • Russ Meyer • sex industry • Sexual Revolution • Sigfried Giedion • sodomy • Stag film • Subjectivity • Superiority (short story) • swimming pool • Technology • television program • television set • The Decameron • The Erotic • The Price of Admission • Tom Wolfe • Tropic of Cancer (novel) • Venus in furs • Virginia Woolf • Walter Benjamin • warfare • Wilhelm Reich
• ISBN-10: 1-942130-26-0 / 1942130260
• ISBN-13: 978-1-942130-26-0 / 9781942130260