“Pornographic Bodies: Constructing Corporeality in Adult Film” explores how the body is theorized within pornography through issues of materiality, spacing, form, libidinal organization, and subject/object relations. This dissertation challenges the way existing porn studies scholarship has taken body to be a self-evident vessel containing the psychosexual dynamics of the performers...
This project elaborates an aesthetic politics that treats the possible as the site of a transformative exhaustion. It examines the aberrant temporal movements that are produced by exhaustive procedures, arguing that by disrupting the habitual structure of time, what I refer to as stereoscopic time, they render the present susceptible...