Used to illustrate the article: “Le pourquoi du spectacle : motivations relatives à la consommation de pornographie chez les hommes gais”
The abstract of which: “Pornography consumption appears to be more accepted and normalized among gay males than among heterosexual men. Nevertheless, what motivates the consumption of pornography remains understudied. Using a poststructuralist approach, we conducted an exploratory audience research that allowed us to document the motivations of consumers of gay male pornography through the narratives of twenty users from Toronto (Canada). Using a thematic and a critical discourse analysis, we found that the motivations can be grouped around four main concepts: sexual satisfaction, fantasy exploration, escapism, and finally, protection from others. Our critical discourse analysis suggests that participants construct their subjectivity from alternative discourses on sexuality, dominant discourses on individualism, consumption and health, and contradictory discourses on risk. Using society of spectacle, society of consumption, scientia sexualis and ars erotica as main theoretical concepts, we conclude that pornography is part of the apparatus [dispositif] of sexuality in the Foucauldian sense, an apparatus that maintains sex at a discursive level.”
I have hoarding issues and am clearing the shit out. I need to partner with someone who’s having a yard sale this summer cuz i have boxes of stuff too cool for goodwill and ebay is too much work.
Interesting article about military forces going through walls to penetrate a city instead of swarming the streets.
…the experience: ‘Imagine it – you’re sitting in your living-room, … where the family watches television together after the evening meal, and suddenly that wall disappears with a deafening roar, the room fills with dust and debris, and through the wall pours one soldier after the other, screaming orders. You have no idea if they’re after you, if they’ve come to take over your home, or if your house just lies on their route to somewhere else. The children are screaming, panicking. Is it possible to even begin to imagine the horror experienced by a five-year-old child as four, six, eight, 12 soldiers, their faces painted black, sub-machine-guns pointed everywhere, antennas protruding from their backpacks, making them look like giant alien bugs, blast their way through that wall?
I sort of crashed a set decorators fundraiser thing on the NY set streets tonight – really just because a favorite taco truck had tweeted that they were there. (omg that sentence was so LA 2010 right?) In this first shot we see Universal managed to physically simulate the clone tool in photoshop.
AKA Meryl Streep, Barnard Commencement Speach 2010. So rare – so refreshing. So perfect – is she ever not? HOW? I’d aspire to be like her but I’ve already failed at that like 100000000 times over, and that was just yesterday. (Via Alexis Arquette’s facebook.)
http://loresproject.com/
I never got one of these when i was there – but I did pick it up in a thrift store for 2.99
