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on 26. October 2022
Noah Tsika in ‘Blue Transfusions: Porn Aggregators and the Pirating of Freakish Cinema’s Unsimulated Sexual congress Scenes’ discusses the distinct streaming platforms inclusive of which gay porn is increasingly circulated.
Issues surrounding piracy and the interdicted uploading of copyrighted significance are of course tenacious concerns for the porn labour; however, Gay0day Tsika identifies a fairly more well-defined object of study in array to pressure observations about the ways in which ‘meaning’ is contingent on context.
Tsika’s key bear on here is the mechanism throughout which variously erotic or in some cases sexually final materials can be extracted from their master context within underground and curious cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in order to set forward that the process of appropriation and repackaging that takes situate here reduces the political and cultural power of the singular source texts that are repurposed.
Issues surrounding piracy and the interdicted uploading of copyrighted significance are of course tenacious concerns for the porn labour; however, Gay0day Tsika identifies a fairly more well-defined object of study in array to pressure observations about the ways in which ‘meaning’ is contingent on context. Tsika’s key bear on here is the mechanism throughout which variously erotic or in some cases sexually final materials can be extracted from their master context within underground and curious cinema and repackaged as ‘porn’ clips. The article considers these online piracy practices in order to set forward that the process of appropriation and repackaging that takes situate here reduces the political and cultural power of the singular source texts that are repurposed.