{"id":10943,"date":"2010-12-13T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mono-2de-1674"},"modified":"2010-12-13T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2010-12-13T16:02:33","slug":"arse-elektronika-2011-call-for-submissions-screw-the-system-sex-technology-class-and-culture-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monochrom.at\/blog\/2010\/12\/13\/arse-elektronika-2011-call-for-submissions-screw-the-system-sex-technology-class-and-culture-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Arse Elektronika 2011 \/ Call for Submissions: ‘SCREW THE SYSTEM: Sex, technology, class, and culture’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arse Elektronika 2011<\/em>
\n(San Francisco)<\/p>\n


\nSCREW THE SYSTEM: Sex, technology, class, and culture<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tCall for papers, performances and machines.<\/p>\n

\tDeadline: 28 February 2011\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\n\tThe remarkable diversity of human behavior across cultures and classes also extends to sex and technology.\u00a0 Most discussions in this area tend to make certain assumptions about the culture, class, and race of the participants.\u00a0 Technologically represented sex tends to be ableist and heterocentric.\u00a0 Who gets left out of this, what effects does this have, and what would it look like to include them?<\/p>\n

\tIs there working class, middle class and upper class porn?\u00a0 How does the commercial sex industry reproduce and enforce racial, gender, and class exploitation and dominance?\u00a0 How do people use sex and sexual technology to transgress or change social status?\u00a0 How can DIY porn and sex tech counter the social injustices reproduced by the commercial sex industry?\u00a0 Does gay porn make use of the class, race, and power tropes found in heterosexual pornography, and if so, how?<\/p>\n

\tIs kinkiness a luxury?\u00a0 What does kink from different social classes look like? Can economic realities poison the power dynamics of a D\/S relationship?\u00a0 What are the demographics of people admitted to hospitals with weird objects up their asses?\u00a0 Does activity in a swinger or BDSM scene act as bridging social capital?\u00a0 Are there class dynamics at work in the feminist debate over porn?<\/p>\n

\tHow and why do governments intervene in sexualities?\u00a0 When do governments shape or use sexual desire, both implicitly and explicitly?\u00a0 Can sex tech challenge the future of biopolitics and what Michel Foucault calls \u201cbiopower\u201d (the subjugation of bodies and the control of populations by modern states)?<\/p>\n

\tWhat are the labor conditions of non-Western workers who make most of the world\u2019s sex toys?\u00a0 What\u2019s the environmental footprint of a technologically assisted orgasm?\u00a0 How does the criminalization or stigma of sex tech production harm the communities in which it is produced?\u00a0 What\u2019s the product life-cycle and planning horizon of sex tech?\u00a0 What are the barriers to entry for sex tech production?\u00a0 How important is intellectual property to sex tech, and how is it enforced?<\/p>\n

\tWhat does production, regulation, distribution, and consumption of sex tech look like outside of North America, Western Europe, and Japan?\u00a0 How do state-sponsored religions or religious states interact with these issues?\u00a0 How do majority Muslim cultures differ from one another and from non-Muslim cultures on these issues?\u00a0 What\u2019s the intersection of sex tourism and sex tech?\u00a0 Is Japan\u2019s pornographic dominance in the Asian market an exception to the Korean wave?\u00a0 How does a country\u2019s pornography (or lack thereof) reflect its culture?\u00a0 Who consumes racist pornography?<\/p>\n

\tHow do the class and cultural impacts of differential access to shifting reproductive technologies like IVF, surrogacy (especially international surrogates), egg and sperm donors, birth control, and abortions affect the ways people have sex and construct relationships?\u00a0 Do these technologies or their social deployment enforce heteronormativity?\u00a0 How could the sex tech industry positively impact control and awareness of STIs?<\/p>\n

\tWhat\u2019s the intersection of sex tech and hospitals or hospice care?\u00a0 Where are the sex toys for the elderly?\u00a0 Where are the sex toys for prisoners?\u00a0 What are the pornography surfing habits of homeless people in libraries?\u00a0 Can technology meaningfully contribute to solutions for sexual social problems like rape?\u00a0 Should the government allow or require masturbation aids in prisons to reduce prison rape?\u00a0 Should your health insurance be paying for your vibrator?\u00a0 How do your sex toys hurt you?\u00a0 What are the health risks of using everyday objects as sex toys when you can\u2019t afford the good stuff?<\/p>\n

\tWho buys sex tech?\u00a0 Is sex technology a luxury?\u00a0 Does the demand elasticity for sex tech vary across subcultures?\u00a0 By age, sexual orientation, race, etc?\u00a0 How much does the average lesbian couple spend on sex toys?\u00a0 What are the substitutes employed to or within sex tech if it\u2019s unaffordable or unavailable?\u00a0 Is consumption of sex tech correlated with any other social significant behaviors or consumptions, positive or negative?\u00a0 How do distribution methods affect who consumes sex tech?\u00a0 How will the DIY movement change the sex tech market?\u00a0 Will we be able to print our on sex toys on rapid prototyping machines?<\/p>\n

\tWho can afford to challenge sex tech?\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\nBitte Email an: office AT monochrom.at\n<\/p>\n

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