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As avant-garde artists knew, transgression is no simple thing: it’s a precisely calculated intellectual endeavor. It means knowing the culture inside out, discerning its secret shames and grubby secrets, how to best humiliate it, knock it off its prim perch. A culture’s pornography becomes, in effect, a precise map of that culture’s borders: pornography begins at the edge of the culture’s decorum. Carefully tracing that edge, like an anthropologist mapping a culture’s system of taboos and myths, provides a detailed blueprint of the culture’s anxieties, investments, contradictions. And a culture’s borders, whether geographical or psychological, are inevitably political questions.
Laura Kipnis
” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/porn/special/eloquence.html#ixzz1KYc3f2hN (via beatmechokemefuckme)(Source: bmcmfm)
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