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Pornotopia is a term coined by the critic Steven Marcus to describe the idealised, imaginative space of pornography,〔Steven Marcus, ''The Other Victorians'' (1971) p. 272-6〕 and used more broadly to describe a fantasy state dominated by universal sexual activity.〔(Pornotopia )〕 Daniel Bell saw the hedonistic promotion of pornotopia in late capitalism as paradoxically undercutting the very virtues of bourgeois sobriety upon which capitalism was originally built.〔Daniel Bell, ''The Winding Passage'' (1991) p. 302〕 ==Structure== Pornotopia is characterized by its freedom from the normal social restraints of place and time - as Marcus put it, "It is always summertime in pornotopia".〔Steven Marcus, ''The Other Victorians'' (1971) p. 276〕 External reality is either split off entirely, or its problems dissolved under a tide of sex.〔Linda Williams, ''Hard Core'' (1989) p. 239 and p. 170〕 Narrative flow will hang on a tenuous line〔T. Lovell/J. Hawthorne, ''Criticism and Critical Theory'' (1984)〕 - a picaresque adventure allowing for multiple encounters,〔Edwin Morgan, 'Introduction' Alexander Trocchi, ''Helen and Desire'' (1997) p. vii〕 or perhaps a Sadean multiplication of all possible combinations of persons/orifices. Beginnings will be sketchy, but, as Marcus argues, "it is an end, a conclusion of any kind, that pornography most resists":〔Steven Marcus, ''The Other Victorians'' (1971) p. 282〕 one reason Susan Sontag singled out The Image as transcending its genre, was precisely its finely structured conclusion, retrospectively illuminating all that had gone before.〔Susan Sontag, 'The Pornographic Imagination', in George Battaile, ''Story of the Eye'' (2001) p. 84-6 and p. 109-10〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pornotopia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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