Saturday, November 22, 2008

granny porn part 2

So more on the granny trannies, time and battery life didn't give me the chance to really get into it as much as I would of liked. Specifically, the importance of studying culture from the bottom up. This is not an original idea. I got it from Benjamine's idea in the arcadies project. The arcadies project is this massive collection of stuff, all having to do with the Arcades found in paris. These places are mostlhy shopping malls, so it is this 1000 plus page book on shopping malls. See though it isn't really on the shopping mall proper, instead it is tons of clippings, commentary, and well stuff all assembled and cross reffrenced.

My contemporiaries look upon the project with a sort of bewilderment. People just don't know what to do with the damn thing, myself included. I think it is an increadble idea though and while its initial application may of been a slightly bewildering experience I think that the format and the idea itself is increadbly powerful.

It is something we don't really think about, you know, and yet there it is, this all prevasive entity. I think part of the failure of the Arcadies Project is the lack of historical ressonace that the Arcades have. While I respect the project in of itself I realize that the whole thing is rather meh...its hard to care that much about the arcades. Still going though the book is like a treasure hunt, every once in a while there is something amazing in it that makes you go WOW. It isn't something to be read cover to cover, hell I'm not even sure it should be read at all, rather it is the physical embodyment of an idea that is best interacted with in the format I am doing now.

So I want to keep it going. So why porn? Well first of all I find porn intrinsicly interesting. I always have, I don't really like to watch it. That isn't what does it for me, no it is more the human aspect of the whole thing. Who are these women, where do they come from, how do thier outer churches handle thier job, and stuff like that. I specifically homed in on grannie porn because it is relativly small giving me less people to have to try and track down, and because these pople have lived most of thier lives...some of them have grown up in a time of intesne sexual repression. What does it mean for them to be doing what they are now.

There is also another practical side to all of this. Pornography is something scholars like to talk about. However, I suspect after reading a good deal of philosphy and literary criticism on the subject that not many of them have consumed enough pornography for them to know what the fuck they are talking about. There is so much of it that it is impossible to come up with any sort of common frame of reffrence.

My project would give everyone a frame of reffrence they could work off of. It would be non judgemental, which is utterly imporant, but it would have that essential human aspect which we need when are talking about stuff like this. After all people are far more concerned with the subjects of the pornography rather than the movies themselves...which makes sense. So instead of analizing porn we should go straight to the source, and I think something like the arcades project could give us that source. I'd love to do it personally. Perhaps as I am getting my doctorate I could shack up with someone and get this ball rolling. Like I said getting people to take this seriously would be a chore and i would have to read a LOT of bad acedemia sothat I could point out why everyone sucks. I really want to do this though, so I guess I should start figgureing out how to make it happen. Letter writting isn' to hard after all.

1 comment:

{EyE} said...

I don't think it would be too hard to get people interested.. maybe granny porn just to get your foot in their door, while they are moving in the right direction of understanding regarding your true point. I think these people's stories deserve to be told, and hopefully they will connect those who act,film, or watch pornography. Maybe then the pornography obsession will be understood in-depth.