While sexually explicit writing and art have been around for
millennia, pornography--as an aesthetic, moral, and juridical
category--is a modern invention. The contributors to "Porn
Archives" explore how the production and proliferation of
pornography has been intertwined with the emergence of the archive
as a conceptual and physical site for preserving, cataloguing, and
transmitting documents and artifacts. By segregating and regulating
access to sexually explicit material, archives have helped
constitute pornography as a distinct genre. As a result, porn has
become a site for the production of knowledge, as well as the
production of pleasure.
The essays in this collection address the historically and
culturally varied interactions between porn and the archive. Topics
range from library policies governing access to sexually explicit
material to the growing digital archive of "war porn," or
eroticized combat imagery; and from same-sex amputee porn to gay
black comic book superhero porn. Together the pieces trace
pornography as it crosses borders, transforms technologies,
consolidates sexual identities, and challenges notions of what
counts as legitimate forms of knowledge. The collection concludes
with a valuable resource for scholars: a list of pornography
archives held by institutions around the world.
"Contributors." Jennifer Burns Bright, Eugenie Brinkema, Joseph
Bristow, Robert Caserio, Ronan Crowley, Tim Dean, Robert Dewhurst,
Lisa Downing, Frances Ferguson, Loren Glass, Harri Kahla, Marcia
Klotz, Prabha Manuratne, Mireille Miller-Young, Nguyen Tan Hoang,
John Paul Ricco, Steven Ruszczycky, Melissa Schindler, Darieck
Scott, Caitlin Shanley, Ramon Soto-Crespo, David Squires, Linda
Williams
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