Decolonizing Porn: Circulating Desire between Europe and the Americas

In this course we will use feminist, queer, critical race, and decolonial theories to analyze porn in Europe and the Americas. The goal is to give students the analytic tools they need to think deeply about the centrality of porn to our lives and to global capitalism, creating jobs in the “gig economy” as well as huge amounts of profit even as it extracts unpaid labor from trafficked bodies. We will consider pornographic photography, cinema, AI, and deep fakes. Texts will include Linda Williams’ Hard Core: Power, Pleasure, and the ‘Frenzy of the Visible,” Gayle Rubin’s “Thinking Sex,” Heather Berg, Porn Work and Jennifer Nash’s The Black Body in Ecstasy. In the SPAN section of the course, students will also be asked to participate in Spanish at least three times on the Spanish-language day of the class. All students will present their public-facing projects at the end of the class.

Schedule
3:00pm-4:15pm on Thursday at AXN 104 (Sep 12, 2022 to Dec 12, 2022)
3:00pm-4:15pm on Tuesday at RAJ CON (Sep 12, 2022 to Dec 12, 2022)
Location
Axinn Center 104
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