TEMPORALITY OF PORNOGRAPHIC EXONARRATIVE

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https://doi.org/10.26565/2226-0994-2020-62-2

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porn, exonarrative, sex, time, command, enjoyment

Abstract

The article considers the narrative component of porn, in particular its temporal aspects. Pornography is defined as specific exonarrative, which is a form of disclosure/stimulation of sexual act as continuation of sex/narrative on the other side. The article determines out several moduses of time in the exonarrative of porn. In particular, it is argued that the sequence of variation and the sequence of scenes form the linear time of porn, which intersects the time delay. Emphasis is placed on continuation, repetition and delay as modus of time of porn/sex that are directly related to enjoyment. Finally, it is concluded that the chronotope of the pornographic exonarrative is (just)-here-being. Further, command/subjugation is considered as the main structural opposition in exonarrative of porn. In this context, porn and magic are compared. This is a magical time of magic, the action of which (just-here) to take place immediately, as soon as there is a command. Thus, the magic of porn expresses/exposes the power, the paradigm of which is sex. The magical function of sex is to perform immersion when a certain multiple of sexual attributes has multiple reflections. And the porno-narrative homeomorphism of sex is revealed in the obligatory reciprocity, no matter what the social positions of bodies and actors. Porn is a utopia in which any possible antagonism, any problem is removed by sex. Sex is solution or deviation from the problem. The pornographic exonarrative transposes the solution into another/external plane, on the other side of the problem. Finally, it is argued that enjoyment arises from the creation of tension between the urgency of nature, passion, flesh, on the one hand, and the (retro)projection of history, ritual, language, on the other.

Author Biography

  • Oleh M. Perepelytsia, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University; 6, Svobody sqr., 61022, Kharkiv, Ukraine

    D.Sc. in Philosophy, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Practical Philosophy named after Professor J. B. Schad

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2020-06-30

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TEMPORALITY OF PORNOGRAPHIC EXONARRATIVE. (2020). The Journal of V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Series Philosophy. Philosophical Peripeteias, 62, 15-24. https://doi.org/10.26565/2226-0994-2020-62-2