Design objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds as
expressions of the relationships among architecture, gender, and
sexuality. 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. In Pornotopia, Paul Preciado examines popular culture and
pornographic spaces as sites of architectural production. Combining
historical perspectives with insights from critical theory, gender
studies, queer theory, porn studies, and the history of technology,
and drawing from a range of primary transdisciplinary
sourcestreatises on sexuality, medical and pharmaceutical
handbooks, architecture journals, erotic magazines, building
manuals, and novels-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. Largely
relegated to the margins of traditional histories of architecture,
these sites are not mere spaces but a series of overlapping systems
of representation. They are understood here not as inherently or
naturally sexual, nor as perverted or queer, but rather as
biopolitical techniques for governing sexual reproduction and the
production of gender in modernity.
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