Pornography, Obscenity and Erotica

aus der Festschrift Zehn Jahre Depot, diverse Autoren, http://www.depot.or.at/files/depot_10jahre.pdf: This lecture explores the short history of the pornographic image, starting with the nineteenth century moral panic aurrounding pornography and shifting to contemporary discourses of an apparently more liberal bent. In particular, I argue that the attempts by critics such as Roland Barthes and Slavoj Z¡ iz¡ ek to sequester
pornography from more artistic forms of imagery betray an ambivalent combination of sexual repression and incitement.