[Air-L] Pornopticism: Surveillance and Pornography

[Feona Attwood]

Pornopticism: Surveillance and Pornography


This forum seeks to open a discussion about the conceptual, ideological, and possibly even physical overlaps between the broad categories of surveillance and pornography. Potential contributors are invited to interpret the definitions of “surveillance” and “pornography” however they see fit and are encouraged to be creative when thinking through their overlaps.

Contributors are welcome to submit abstracts on the below subjects or use them to help guide their own proposals.

Possible Topics



•       Drone/CCTV porn



•       Pornhub Insights and big data



•       The UK’s Digital Economy Bill



•       Mia Khalifa: Privacy and the challenge of challenging cultural taboos



•       Hacking and blackmail (ex: Black Mirror season 3, episode 3)



•       Revenge porn and legal responses/ramifications



•       Webcam streaming and being recorded unawares



•       From Bush to Obama: The rhetorical effects of “safe and secure”

Interested individuals are asked to email 100-200 word proposals to forum editor Evangelos Tziallas at evangelostziallas at gmail.com<mailto:evangelostziallas at gmail.com> by March 15th, 2017.



Completed papers are due May 30th, 2017 and should be 1,500 words with citations and footnotes.





Feona Attwood
Professor of Cultural Studies, Communication and Media
Middlesex University, UK

Porn Studies http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/rprn20#.VW8jTlxViko
Sexualities https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/sexualities/journal200950