Pornography as Speech Act

Papers reframing pornography as a speech act—eg Butler on MacKinnon in Excitable Speech. How does pornography channel social power into perlocutionary effects? How are pornographic illocutions reappropriated for emancipatory purposes? 300-word abstract and CV.

Deadline for submissions: Wednesday, 15 March 2023

Douglas Robinson, Chinese Univ of Hong Kong, Shenzhen (drobinson@cuhk.edu.cn )