Sexuality in the Field of Vision
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Sexuality in the Field of Vision
an effort to manage the virtuality of both sex and publicness.
The program's voyeurism lies in the way it jumps between scopophilia on the one hand, and the public's erotic rage on the other. Its affective charge emerges in the movement between these positions.
some forms of sex, like those in public or online, become the castigated and fascinating objects of mass culture, while simultaneously representing the birth of new forms of sociality.
from the perspective of the mass public, the virtualization of sex is seen at once as evidence of intimacy's degeneration while also keeping alive the hope for sexual possibility and difference.
The videos therefore function as a kind of sexual therapy.
vital force affecting and affected by transformations in, most obviously, sexual mores, as well as the politics of representation and the growth of network cultures.