Ästhetik(en) der Pornographie

Pornography has long been an omnipresent phenomenon in both everyday and popular culture: representations of sexualities and the sexual body (the suffix ‘-graphy’ refers to this depictive and staging character) through language, signs and images can be found at any time and in any culture, but since the 20th century, of course, especially in photography and film. Over the centuries, specific writing strategies have emerged in order to escape censorship, and representations characterised by a ‘male gaze’ have been established—aesthetics of pornography that tread a narrow line between being ‘artfully’ erotic and ‘wickedly’ obscene. With contributions by Tatiana Ageeva, Hans Richard Brittnacher, Philip Jacobi, Katharina Kohm, Norbert Lennartz, Christian Lenz, Swantje van Mark, Jonas Nesselhauf, Wieland Schwanebeck and Sabine Sielke.