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Postmodernism in porn could be interesting to look into. Just from what I know:
Into the 1990s directors were still trying to create feature films like Hollywood. 60-90 mins
Then at some point the Gonzo style is innovated where all pretense & story were cut in favor of just sex
Into the 1990s directors were still trying to create feature films like Hollywood. 60-90 mins
Then at some point the Gonzo style is innovated where all pretense & story were cut in favor of just sex
That's an industry where the policies and family values/depravity of neoliberalism hit hard, not to mention the AIDS crisis, police presence, exploitation of the worker physically emotionally and via wages & contracts
You've got the obv flags of PM: the parodies, the pastiche of the pastiche, the honestly terrifying commodification of technology, and the way that human bodies are presented like healthcare plans: choose the best for you. Porn wants you to be a smart, thrifty consumer of flesh
There's also the incendiary marketing of taboo or the subtle presence of taboo that, per Michael Judge, acts as "t3rrorist art": Art violently demanding a presence in the public view or consciousness (think flash mobs, viral marketing, or pop-up shops)
But when technology gave people/workers a way to DIY themselves into the industry with just a webcam or smartphone, not only were sex worker rights a conversation forced to be had, but the bigger, bolder, sincere visions of people were able to be made without capitalist shackles
Cam, Snap, Sext -ing all provide workers a way to control and profit from the entire output of labor. Even when contracting with sites like MFC and OnlyFans, I'm not familiar w how earnings are divided, but it's a safer and popular alternative to escort work (not shaming escorts)
And there are projects out there leading with intent to ensure the foremost safety of worker, de facto co-ops, but also LGBT, personalized, safe BDSM, global collaborative, and wholesome content
Fisher opens Capitalist Realism using the museum from Children of Men to demonstrate how the commodification of art, how anything having a price over its head & forced into a market, leads to an absolute soul-sucking of natural, sincere, or "priceless" values (like buying art)
But a resurgence of worker rights and autonomy have revived some of the utopian innocence and equality ideals of modernism, or, transmodernism
(the current schools of thought on post-postmodernism are a trip
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism)
(the current schools of thought on post-postmodernism are a trip
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-postmodernism)
Capitalism and neoliberal ideology forces every worker to be both overproductive and a disciplined consumer. Such little money to work with demands you spend hours becoming intimate & obsessed with cost-effectiveness. It gives u a hammer where every good -even the body- is a nail
