Pornotopia
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Pornotopia

An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics

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Pornotopia

An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics

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Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy was not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America; it also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle through the construction of a series of utopian multimedia spaces — from the Playboy Mansion and fictional Playboy's Penthouse of 1959 to the Playboy Clubs and hotels appearing around the world in the 1960s. Simultaneously, the invention of the contraceptive pill provided access to a biochemical technique that separated (hetero) sexuality and reproduction.Addressing these concurrent cultural shifts, Paul Preciado investigates the strategic relationships between space, gender, and sexuality in popular sites related to the production and consumption of pornography that have tended to reside at the margins of traditional histories of architecture: bachelor pads, multimedia rotating beds, and design objects, among others.Combining historical perspectives with contemporary critical theory, gender and queer theory, porn studies, the history of technology, and a range of primary transdisciplinary sources — treatises on sexuality, medical and pharmaceutical handbooks, architecture journals, erotic magazines, building manuals, and novels — Pornotopia explores the use of architecture as a biopolitical technique for governing sexual relations and the production of gender in the postwar United States.

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Publisher
Zone Books
Year
2014
ISBN
9781942130260
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences
Zone 
Books 
series 
design 
by 
Bruce 
Mau
Typesetting 
by 
Meighan 
Gale
Image 
placement 
and 
production 
by 
Julie 
Fry
Printed 
and 
bound 
by 
Maple 
Press

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Preface to the English Edition
  3. I Playboy Architecture: Performing Masculinity
  4. II Manifesto for an Indoor Man: The Awakening of the Playboy’s Domestic Consciousness
  5. III Unfolding Domesticity: The Postdomestic Interior and the Invention of the “Girl Next Door”
  6. IV Striptease: Undressing Domesticity
  7. V The Male Electronic Boudoir: The Urban Bachelor Apartment
  8. VI The Playboy Mansion: American OĂŻkema
  9. VII The Invention of the Pharmacopornographic Bed
  10. VIII Playboy Spatial Products: The Playboy Club and the Playboy Archipelago as Pornscape
  11. Conclusion: The Afterlife of a Pornotopia
  12. Postscript: Entering the Playboy Archive
  13. Notes
  14. Bibliography
  15. Index