An exploration of the modalities, affective intensities, and
disturbing qualities of online pornography. Digital production
tools and online networks have dramatically increased the general
visibility, accessibility, and diversity of pornography. Porn can
be accessed for free, anonymously, and in a seemingly endless range
of niches, styles, and formats. In Carnal Resonance, Susanna
Paasonen moves beyond the usual debates over the legal, political,
and moral aspects of pornography to address online porn in a media
historical framework, investigating its modalities, its affect, and
its visceral and disturbing qualities. Countering theorizations of
pornography as emotionless, affectless, detached, and cold,
Paasonen addresses experiences of porn largely through the notion
of affect as gut reactions, intensities of experience, bodily
sensations, resonances, and ambiguous feelings. She links these
investigations to considerations of methodology (ways of theorizing
and analyzing online porn and affect), questions of materiality
(bodies, technologies, and inscriptions), and the evolution of
online pornography. Paasonen dicusses the development of online
porn, focusing on the figure of the porn consumer, and considers
user-generated content and amateur porn. She maps out the modality
of online porn as hyperbolic, excessive, stylized, and repetitive,
arguing that literal readings of the genre misunderstand its
dynamics and appeal. And she analyzes viral videos and extreme and
shock pornogaphy, arguing for the centrality of disgust and shame
in the affective dynamics of porn. Paasonen's analysis makes clear
the crucial role of media technologies-digital production tools and
networked communications in particular-in the forms that porn
takes, the resonances it stirs, and the experiences it makes
possible.
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