Hefner: The Virginia Woolf of Pornotopia
Preciado sees Playboy as a ‘titanic allegoric operation.’ He died having succeeded in what he set out to do , ‘… namely, to construct a collective sexual imaginary capable of implementing, right in the middle of the Cold War, a new set of affects, bodily habits, and desires that prepared the shift from a disciplinary society, with its repressive norms and bodily regulations, toward a pharmacopornographic regime characterized by immaterial labour, postdomestic space, the psychotropic and chemical regulation of subjectivity, prosthetic extension of the sexual body, electronic sexual surveillance, and consumption of intimacy.’
Richard Marshall reviews Beatriz Preciado‘s book about Hugh Hefner‘s Playboy legacy.
Reactionary Sentimentalism Part 3: Prague
“They’re afraid of the old for their memory. They’re afraid of the young for their ideas — ideals. They’re afraid of funerals — of flowers — of workers — of churches — of party members — of good times. They’re afraid of art — they’re afraid of art. They’re afraid of language — communication. They’re afraid of theatre. They’re afraid of ï¬lm — of Pasolini — of Godard — of painters of musicians — of stones & sculptors. They’re afraid. They’re afraid of radio stations. They’re afraid of technology, free floating forms of information. Paris Match — Telex — Guttenburg — Xerox — IBM — wavelengths. They’re afraid of telephones. They’re afraid. They’re afraid to let the people in. They’re afraid to let the people out…”
Louis Armand on Underground Prague.