[lbo-talk] Memorial Day

Wojtek Sokolowski sokol at jhu.edu
Tue May 29 09:40:00 PDT 2007


Doug:

- On May 28, 2007, at 2:20 PM, joanna wrote:


> half porn

So? What's wrong with that?

[WS:] Porn is a quintessential scheme of transforming emotions into a lure for crass profiteering - which is deplorable. Ditto for any other attempts to use emotionally charged pictures as mere signifiers in commercial or political propaganda (cf Roland Barthes, _Mythologies_).

Wojtek



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