Commie Pinko Queer

Share this post
Talking Porn Work with Heather Berg
lisaduggan.substack.com

Talking Porn Work with Heather Berg

Lisa Duggan
Jan 28
1
Share this post
Talking Porn Work with Heather Berg
lisaduggan.substack.com

Yesterday I had such a good time discussing Heather Berg’s fantastic new book Porn Work: Sex, Labor and Late Capitalism on Zoom, hosted by NYU’s Tamiment Library.

The book is an ethnography of porn performers, directors, producers and crew that mines their experiences and perspectives to offer a nuanced, layered, illuminated analysis of work, and collective efforts to escape the ravages of work under capitalism. As a Marxist feminist, Berg gives us a dialectical materialist study that nonetheless modifies conventional definitions of class, labor and struggle. She takes seriously the role of pleasure and creativity as well as the mundane miseries of porn and other work. Drawing on feminist and anti-work theorists like Kathi Weeks, Sylvia Frederici and Mariarosa Dalla Costa, and queer theorists including José Muñoz, Rod Ferguson and LaMonda Horton Stallings, Berg generates a capacious conceptual and theoretical frame for thinking about porn and about work.

Here’s the Zoom recording. It’s an hour long. Enjoy…..

Share this post
Talking Porn Work with Heather Berg
lisaduggan.substack.com
Comments

Create your profile

0 subscriptions will be displayed on your profile (edit)

Skip for now

Only paid subscribers can comment on this post

Already a paid subscriber? Sign in

Check your email

For your security, we need to re-authenticate you.

Click the link we sent to , or click here to sign in.

TopNewCommunity

No posts

Ready for more?

© 2022 Lisa Duggan
Privacy ∙ Terms ∙ Collection notice
Publish on Substack Get the app
Substack is the home for great writing