C'LICK ME: A NETPORN STUDIES READER Edited by Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, Matteo Pasquinelli Editorial Assistance: Geert Lovink, Sabine Niederer Copy Editing: Wietske Maas - Design: Kernow Craig Publisher: Institute of Network Cultures Supported by: Paradiso, Amsterdam ISBN: 978-90-78146-03-2 Order a copy of this book by sending an email to: info@networkcultures.org A PDF of this publication can be downloaded for free at [NOT SAFE FOR WORK!] low-res, 2MB: http://www.networkcultures.org/_uploads/24.pdf hi-res, 9MB: http://www.networkcultures.org/clickme/pdf/ clickmeReader_9MB.pdf C'Lick Me: A Netporn Studies Reader is an anthology that collects the best materials of two years debate: from The Art and Politics of Netporn conference held in 2005 in Amsterdam to the 2007 C'Lick Me festival in Paradiso, Amsterdam. C'Lick Me opens the field of 'Internet pornology'. Based on non-conventional approaches, mixing academics, artists and activists, the C'Lick Me Reader reclaims a critical post-enthusiastic, post-censorship perspective on netporn, a dark field that has been dominated thus far by dodgy commerce and filtering. The C'Lick Me reader covers the rise of the netporn society from Usenet underground to the blogosphere, analyses economic data and search engines traffic, compares sex work with the work of fantasy, disability and accessibility. The C'Lick Me reader also expands the no tion of digital desire, and smashes the predicatable boundaries of porn debates, depicting a broader libidinal spectrum from fetish subcultures to digital alienation, from code pornography to war pornography. The reader concludes by re-contextualising the queer discourse into a post-porn scenario. Contributions by: Adam Arvidsson, Franco 'Bifo' Berardi, Manuel Bonik, Mikita Brottman, Florian Cramer, Samantha Culp, Barbara DeGenevieve, Mark Dery, Michael Goddard, Stewart Home, Katrien Jacobs, Marije Janssen, Julie Levin Russo, Regina Lynn, Sergio Messina, Mireille Miller-Young, Tim Noonan, Francesco Macarone Palmieri aka Warbear, Matteo Pasquinelli, Audacia Ray, Andreas Schaale, Nishant Shah, Tim Stuettgen, Matthew Zook. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction SECTION 1: THE RISE OF THE NETPORN SOCIETy Regina Lynn Sex Drive: Where Sex and Tech Come Together Mark Dery Naked Lunch: Talking Realcore with Sergio Messina Nishant Shah PlayBlog: Pornography, Performance and Cyberspace Audacia Ray Sex on the Open Market: Sex Workers Harness the Power of the Internet Adam Arvidsson Netporn: the Work of Fantasy in the Information Society Manuel Bonik and Andreas Schaale The Naked Truth: Internet Eroticism and the Search Tim Noonan Netporn, Sexuality and the Politics of Disability: A Catalyst for Access, Inclusion and Acceptance? Matthew Zook Report on the Location of the Internet Adult Industry SECTION 2: DIGITAL DESIRE BEYOND PORNOGRAPHY Mark Dery Paradise Lust: Pornotopia Meets the Culture Wars Matteo Pasquinelli Warporn! Warpunk: Autonomous Videopoiesis in Wartime Florian Cramer and Stewart Home Pornographic Coding Florian Cramer Sodom Blogging: Alternative Porn and Aesthetic Sensibility Mikita Brottman Nightmares in Cyberspace: Urban Legends, Moral Panics and the Dark Side of the Net Michael Goddard BBW: Techno-archaism, Excessive Corporeality and Network Sexuality Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi The Obsession of the (Vanishing) Body SECTION 3: NETPORN AFTER THE QUEER BOOM Mireille Miller-young Sexy and Smart: Black Women and the Politics of Self-Authorship in Netporn Katrien Jacobs Porn Arousal and Gender Morphing in the Twilight Zone Barbara DeGenevieve Ssspread.com: The Hot Bods of Queer Porn Julie Levin Russo 'The Real Thing': Reframing Queer Pornography for Virtual Spaces Samantha Culp First Porn Son: Asian-man.com and the Golden Porn Revolution Francesco Macarone Palmieri aka Warbear 21st Century Schizoid Bear: Masculine transitions Through Net Pornography Tim Stuttgen Ten Fragments on a Cartography of Post-Pornographic Politics BIOGRAPHIES WEBOGRAPHY This publication is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Non Derivative Works 2.5 Netherlands License. No article in this reader may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means without permission in writing from the author. We would like to thank all the participants of the conferences 'Art and Politics of Netporn' (2005) and ‘C’Lick Me’ (2007). A special thanks to our director, Emilie Randoe, School of Interactive Media, Amsterdam Polytechnic, for supporting our netporn research programme; to Pierre Ballings and Maarten van Boven, Paradiso, Amsterdam, for hosting the C’Lick Me event and supporting the production of the reader. Thanks to all the authors of the book for collaborating with us over the years, as well as to all the photographers and image- producers on the web whose works have been cited in the different articles.