Playblog: Pornography, Performance, and Cyberspace

The essay makes a distinction between internet pornography (a genre that is shaped through internet technologies) and pornography (in earlier forms like print, moving images, visuals, comics, etc.) available on the internet, to make an argument around pleasure principle and pornographic pleasure, exploring the phenomenon of private blogging and form net-porn as one of the tropes by which the personal web can be understood. The essay first appeared in Cut-up magazine (available at http://www.cut-up.com/news/detail.php?sid=413) and was later included in the anthology "C'LICK ME: Netporn Studies Reader".

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