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<p class="MsoNormal">Organizer: Brian
Adams-Thies, PhD</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Panel: Porno-Metaphor and Metaphors
of Porn</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Conference: Lavender
Languages 2016 (February 12-14)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Location: American
University – Washington DC</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For many years, conservative and anti-porn feminist cultural
pundits have railed against their perception of the pornographic colonizations
of everyday life. As opposed to arguing
whether or not these concerns are true, this panel will address the dynamism
with which people make use of porn and porn makes use of people. Porn has certainly had effects upon the ways
that we speak. For example, what does it
mean to have sex ‘like a porn star’? On
the other hand, our changing life worlds also affect what is representable in
porn. For example, why does gay male
porn use affective relationships such as daddy/son; priest/supplicant;
fraternity initiates/brothers and what metaphoric meaning might be communicated
or received by a specific audience? </p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> Essentially, this
panel would like to explore the ways that porn becomes another means for the
production of metaphor and/or how pornography exists as or creates
metaphor. The overarching questions to
be addressed by this panel might include:
In what ways do people use the pornographic as a means to create new
meanings, new languages, new metaphors?
In what ways does porn use people and changes in contemporary life worlds
to create new meanings and metaphoric representation? If we are, in fact, in the pharmacopornographic
era (Preciado), what pornographic/sexual metaphors are necessary for
understanding and making sense of this new era?
Papers addressing the intersections between the pornographic, the
pharmaceutical, new media and linguistic metaphor are of great interest. Papers addressing the ethnographic and
socio-linguistic analysis of porno metaphors and metaphors of porn are most
welcome.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">300 word abstract due by December 1, 2015</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Send to Brian Adams-Thies, PhD at <a href="mailto:brianat73@gmail.com">brianat73@gmail.com</a></p>
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