Porn factory: a feminist dystopian inquiry into porn (re)produced worlds
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Wyatt, Jonathan
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Murray, Fiona
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2025-08-07T10:34:14Z
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2025-08-07T10:34:14Z
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2018-07-03
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A story is trying to form at the edges of knowing. There is no particular author.
There is no “one” here to tell the story. There is no “one” to know how the story
may end. This story takes the form of a Hop-on Hop-off Bus tour of a factory. The
bus has no human driver. It is driven purely by appetition.
This thesis is a production of the whole that takes a feminist new materialist lens to
(re)think subjectivity in the counselling room by opening up to the more-than
human and the role of inhuman forces. The inquiry draws heavily on the work of
Erin Manning and aims to foot-fall into a neurodiverse perspective towards its informing. The study begins in a relational field of affective tonality where inflection
emerges from coloured shadow. The researcher makes felt her appearance as a
conduit of expression for the milieu rather than speaking from her own-lived
experience. Through traversing spaces, the inquiry works to examine
pornography’s industrial processes and forces of technical subjugation and control
in contemporary digital pornographised worlds. The research examines the ethical
dilemmas of working with clients who present with issues around pornography and
follows lines of flight to avoid capitalist capture. The inquiry (re)imagines new
futures for those who have already inhabited the affective space of porn
(re)produced worlds. Finally, the inquiry yields and fades to black.
The research, open to the force of form, has emerged as a pseudo pornography
website produced collectively. This website is a minor activism which aims to enter
the pornographic networks. The writing, the part of the inquiry which tuned to
language, must be accessed through the website but can also be downloaded and
printed off without further exploration. The whole is not a unified whole and its
organs are left together and disparate.
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https://hdl.handle.net/1842/43779
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http://dx.doi.org/10.7488/era/6310
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The University of Edinburgh
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Feminist
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New Materialism
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Subjectivity
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Pornography
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Inhuman Forces
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Porn factory: a feminist dystopian inquiry into porn (re)produced worlds
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dc.title.alternative
The Porn factory: a feminist dystopian inquiry into porn (re)produced worlds
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Thesis or Dissertation
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dc.type.qualificationlevel
Doctoral
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dc.type.qualificationname
DClinPsychol Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
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