Event overview
As part of the Visual Cultures Guest Lecture Series, Margret Grebowicz will present a paper on internet pornography and political ontology.
How does the proliferation of pornography as an internet phenomenon change the way we think of the relationships between speech, freedom, and sex? Engaging with Baudrillard, Butler, and MacKinnon, I argue that cyberporn has important consequences for political ontology in general, which should reorient critiques of pornography to focus on questions of community, sexual/political intelligibility, and the conditions of the possibility of social change.
MARGRET GREBOWICZ is a Leverhulme Trust Visiting Scholar in philosophy at the University of Dundee. She works primarily in feminist theory, contemporary French thought, and science studies. In addition to the present project, she is completing a co-authored book on the work of Donna Haraway while in the UK. She is also the editor of Gender after Lyotard and SciFi in the Mind's Eye: Reading Science Through Science Fiction. She regularly teaches at Goucher College in Baltimore, but calls New York City her home.
Dates & times
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6 May 2010 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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