The Liberation Principle
“The Matrix is surely the kind of film about the matrix that the matrix would have been able to produce” (Baudrillard, 2004)
As free-market globalisation and the artificial instruments of technology have intersected with the formerly established sex categories of male and female; and as discourse was liberated from its containment within these essentialist categories, an identity continuum was born right across the sex/gender spectrum. An identity continuum that liberated sex from its biological and social poles, opening it up as a market of unlimited, polymorphic potential.[1]
Pornography: the explicit description or display of sexual organs/activities, intended to stimulate sexual arousal.
Obscenity: identified in England by its capacity to ‘deprave or corrupt’ a significant number of people that come into contact with it; hence obscenity turns on the notion of a public good or Continue reading
