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NewsPsychopathia Sexualis | Published on June 21, 2007
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Another (!) lecture on Netporn, the subject that has captivated minds and moistened loins around the world.
This talk is part of the Frontiers of Contemporary Thought series, jointly produced by the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), the University of the Sinos River Valley (UNISINOS) and Copesul, a private chemical company located in Porto Alegre. According to Copesul's website, confirmed speakers for the series include Bernard-Henri Levy, Peter Greenaway, Pierre Levy, Marshall Berman, Christopher Hitchens, Camille Paglia, and Michel Houellebecq. I am reliably informed, by one of my hosts, that I'll speak before "a selected audience of Brazilian scholars, journalists, and decision makers." In other words, I'll have the Ear of Power as I talk, preposterously enough, about...
"Humanimal" porn in the age of genetic chimera and xenotransplants; the cultural crosstalk between warporn and gorenography (Saw, Hostel, et. al.); pathological masculinity in Dubya's America; male bonding in the military, stalked by the ever-present specter of the Queer Within; Theweleit; Sontag; Foucault; Zizek; and what happens when Matrix "bullet time" meets PhotoShopped cumshots, among other things.
When: June 26, 2007 7:30 pm
Where: Porto Alegre, Brazil Federal University Federal University Lecture Hall
Stop by and say hello, if you're in town.
Posted by Mark Dery at June 21, 2007 09:31 PM |
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mark, you will be lecturing in my hometown, i don´t know if i´ll be able to go.. it´s sucha shame
Posted by: Adri Amaral at June 23, 2007 03:15 PMIndeed. Why not advise a friend to go and bootleg it on his cameraphone, or some similarly stealthy technology? The official word is that the audience is an "invited" audience, which is intended to sound exclusive, but I'm not sure what means, in practice. I'm hoping people can bluff their way past the red-velvet rope.
Posted by: M. Dery at June 24, 2007 02:02 PMHi!
I'm enrolled to the Fronteiras do Pensamento conferences and, so far, it's been a very enlightening experience in different fields, such as History, Antropology and Sociology.
Do you have any text or essay that you recommend the reading prior to your presentation? If you could answer to the email, I appreciate.
Thanks, and I hope you enjoy my town!
Posted by: Cristina at June 24, 2007 03:13 PMYou might skim Sontag's "Pornographic Imagination" essay, if you haven't already read it, and the interview with Foucault in Escoffier's excellent SEXUAL REVOLUTION anthology, as well as the intro to Rick Poynor's PORNOTOPIA. Then, too, you might find my interview with Sergio Messina, elsewhere on this site, of interest. Do come up and say hello, if you attend.
Posted by: M. Dery at June 24, 2007 07:03 PMDear Mr Dery,
I have just been to your lecture and I wanted to say how great it was. As a 23-year-old just graduated psychologist and about to do a master in London I have to say I was very inspired by everything you said. For sure, I was touched by your ideas and probably it will affect my way of thinking sex and pornography in our contemporary society. Unfortunately I felt that the audience did not correspond in a proper way. I felt embarrassed by the silly questions and their attitude. Anyway, will you make your lecture available? Thank you very much and congratulations!
Tamara Oliven
I'd like to say I was very impressed by your lecture yesterday. It was really great. Will it be available here? Congratulations again!
Posted by: Ana Bandeira at June 27, 2007 10:14 AMMark,
I attended to yesterday's conference at UFRGS and I really appreciated your point of view mainly when compared and contrasted with Mr.Schulers'.
I'd like to congratulate you for your light style wich made time fly and certainly will make people think siriously or not abt the subject. Thank you very much, and I hope you have as well appreciated being in Brazil.
Very best regards,
Karina
Mark,
I attended to yesterday's conference at UFRGS and I really appreciated your point of view mainly when compared and contrasted with Mr.Schulers'.
I'd like to congratulate you for your light style wich made time fly and certainly will make people think siriously or not abt the subject. Thank you very much, and I hope you have as well appreciated being in Brazil.
Very best regards,
Karina
Mister Mark Dery
I also was at your yesterday´s lecture and I can say I´m still "digesting" your ideas. For sure it was very "hard core" but also quite deep and touching old tabus. Despite the audience question´s, a bit out of the main subject, I would like to know if more questions can be done by your website or by email. I was wondering the function of tabus and interdictions in a society crossing a real and a cyber world, both so diferent from each other but so (dis)connected.
Tks for the lecture
Mariana
last year Psychology student
We, the freak ones, would like to download the material of your lecture. How? Greets.
Posted by: Rafael Soares at June 28, 2007 10:05 AMMr. Dery,
I've been to your lecture at Fronteiras do Pensamento and I found Mr. Schüler's talk as beautiful and moving as ingenuous - in my opinion due partly to his age and partly to his affection for Acient Greece. As my English isn't good enough and the translators struggled to follow your pace, maybe my question is redundant, but I'd like to know if you think that this hole porno/bizarre behaviour of contemporary society is nothing but one more step to cyborgization of humanity - considering that, in a close future, nothing else might not be shocking anymore, but taken as mere information - or if you think this feeling that "there's something going wrong with us" is capable of breaking this process. In my opinion, people who are afraid of 'cyborgization' of humanity - myself included - will be seen in the future like people who supported slavery and monarchy are seen by everyone nowadays, so what's your opinion about it?
Thanks for your brilliant lecture!
Best regards,
Bruno
Bruno
Mark,
I was in your lecture tuesday and I'd like to know if you're having (or had) the same fun Arnold had with the BUNDAS and MULATAS here in Brazil. Bet you got a little disappointed because not everybody was naked and it was a little cold here in Porto Alegre. If there will be some material available, I'll be glad to know. It was a marvelous presentation, congrats. I don't know if our people was ready to digest such advanced thoughts, though. Too bad. I learned a lot and I'm buying your books and signing your blog.
Thank you!
Gabriel
Advertising Student
Thanks to all here who attended and enjoyed my drive-by assault, in Porto Alegre, on Brazilian intellectual propriety. Some of you mentioned the audience's questions, which were a bit wide of the bull's-eye; maybe something got lost in translation, as it so often does? In any event, I thought the audience was wonderfully attentive---I mean, yeesh, I went on for well over 90 minutes, televangelist that I am---and most seemed to be enjoying themselves heartily. Hilariously, someone to my right hissed loudly throughout my entire lecture. An evangelical Christian, perhaps? Or maybe a devout member of the Dworkin-ite, anti-porn, penis-is-a-weapon, all-intercourse-is-rape wing of feminism? No way to know, but I'm gratified that someone, at least, was offended enough to hiss. Makes this middle-aged provocateur feel young and dangerous all over again.
A number of you have asked if there's a transcript of my talk anywhere, online. Happily, the Institute of Network Cultures in Amsterdam has just published an anthology of writings on Netporn, including a version of my lecture. I'll post a blog entry about it, but you can find the details here:
http://www.networkcultures.org/weblog/archives/2007/06/click_me_reader.html
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Mark Dery.
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Mr.Mark i have one great proje3ct for to benefits a world peoples for to Save to Earth Planet and to Global Warming campaign, i need to send one email. for mi, im send copy my project, for to help me to show in United Nations, NYC, and Your University New York.
CURITIBA.PR. BRASIL, JULAY, 18,2007.
Once again in Brasil gets together, united in solidarity by the terrible acident to Brasilian Plane to 200 peoples dead. I Nedd to help me to show my project for to Finish to Violence in the World.
Jose Pedro Naisser.
Curitiba.pr.
Brasil.
email. jpnaisser@hotmail.com
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Let’s create the opportunity and we shall change Humanity History by Awakening AWARENESS.
The MOMENT has come....
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