Main entry:

Preciado, Paul B., author.

Title & Author:

Pornotopia : an essay on Playboy's architecture and biopolitics / Beatriz Preciado.

Publication:

New York : Zone Books, 2014.
©2014

Description:

303 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-290) and index.
Playboy architecture : performing masculinity -- Manifesto for an indoor man : the awakening of the Playboy's domestic consciousness -- Unfolding domesticity : the postdomestic interior and the invention of the "girl next door" -- Striptease : undressing domesticity -- The male electronic boudoir : the urban bachelor apartment -- The Playboy mansion : American oøkema -- The invention of the pharmacopornographic bed -- Playboy spatial products : the Playboy Club and the Playboy archipelago as pornscape.

Summary:

This book examines popular culture and pornographic spaces as sites of architectural production. Combining historical perspectives with insights from critical theory, gender studies, queer theory, porn studies, and the history of technology, and drawing from a range of primary transdisciplinary sources, treatises on sexuality, medical and pharmaceutical handbooks, architecture journals, erotic magazines, building manuals, and novels, this book traces the strategic relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality through popular sites related to the production and consumption of pornography: design objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds. Largely relegated to the margins of traditional histories of architecture, these sites are not mere spaces but a series of overlapping systems of representation. They are understood here not as inherently or naturally sexual, nor as perverted or queer, but rather as biopolitical techniques for governing sexual reproduction and the production of gender in modernity.

ISBN:

9781935408482 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1935408488 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9781935408499 (paperback ; alk. paper)
1935408496 (paperback ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Playboy (Chicago, Ill.)
Architecture and society.
Masculinity.
Bachelors.
Architecture as Topic history
Erotica history
Sexual Behavior history
Architecture et société.
Masculinité.
Célibataires.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288395
Call No.: BIB 230073
Status: Available