Pornography and postpornography: aesthetic-political analysis on the representation of the body in contemporaneity

Abstract

The present essay exercises an analysis around the aesthetic-political dimensions of pornography and postpornography as central phenomena of production and representation of contemporary sexuality. In ascription to the queer philosophy, which raises the need for a radical deconstruction of the identity statutes deployed in the machinery of advanced capitalism, this research is based on the hypothesis that the body, in its performative condition, is configured as a living production of political subjectivity. Within this perspective, there appears an urgency for the critical analysis and assemblage of pornography as a technique of subjectivation; and it is on these grounds that the following study will proceed.