[Reader-list] [Announcements] Beyond Pleasure and Disgust: Contextual Readings of Online Pornography

[Aarti Sethi]

Beyond Pleasure and Disgust: Contextual Readings of Online Pornography
Facilitated by Susana Paasonen
11:00 A.M. - 5:00 P.M., Satruday, 14 October 20056
Seminar Room
Sarai-CSDS


This one day workshop addresses the politics involved in feminist,  
cross-cultural studies of (online) pornography and possible  
departures from the still influential legacy of North-American sex  
wars of the 1980s. With specific attention on location and  
theorisations of affect, we will discuss the critical possibilities  
of context-specificity and 'other pornographies'.

[Susanna Paasonen, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Digital Culture at  
the University of Jyväskylä and Reader in Universities of Turku and  
Tampere, Finland. Her research interests include Internet research,  
feminist theory, studies of popular culture and pornography. She is  
the author of Figures of Fantasy: Internet, Women and Cyberdiscourse  
(Peter Lang, 2005), and the co-editor of the anthologies Women and  
Everyday Uses of the Internet: Agency & Identity (Lang, 2002) and  
Pornification: Sex and Sexuality in Media Culture (Berg, forthcoming  
in 2007).
Url: http://www.translocal.net/susanna/]

To register, please send a short bio and why you wish to attend the  
workshop to dak at sarai.net by 12 October 2006.
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