Sex scandals, racial domination and the systemic correlation of power-modalities in Foucault

Apostolidis, Paul

doi:10.1080/2158379x.2011.589177

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“…The decentered, self-regulating nature of security power further complicates emancipatory articulations. Security power pre-empts postcapitalist imagining by inducing agents to self-restrain fantasmatic and political imagining (Apostolidis, 2011: 189; Goldberg, 2008). As argued by Foucault: while “discipline regulates everything, the apparatus of security lets things happen.…”

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A history of racial imaginaries: Mainstreaming the illicit industry of interracial porn in the United States (1916–2022)

Hensmans

2024

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This paper analyzes how the socio-economic development of an industry co-evolves with the articulation of imaginaries of emancipation and domination. Drawing on political discourse theory, I analyze the US’ interracial porn movie industry (1916–2022) from its early, illicit beginnings through its commercial mainstreaming. Organized agents have developed this industry by articulating imaginaries that evoke economic emancipation, but provide new political and fantasmatic relevance to origin myths of racial and gendered superiority. The articulations of each generation of organized agents transgressed prior episodes’ limits to visualizing interracial sex. Yet, transgression remained firmly within the bounds of the disciplinary and security power apparatus of white patriarchical domination. In particular, successive imaginaries modernized the stereotypical myths of black Jezebels, black Brutes, pure white women, and civilized white men. Modernization of myths, technological democratization and mainstreaming went hand in hand. I provide critical explanations for these findings that contribute to the organizational literature on imaginaries. This includes the entrepreneurship-as-emancipation literature, and scholarship on myths, feminism and prefigurative organizing. Emancipatory imagining requires challenging the disciplinary and security limits of origin myths. By default of political and fantasmatic challenging of these mythical limits, they function as empty signifiers that are easily adapted to contemporary imagining. As a result, entrepreneurs’ and performers’ socio-economic emancipation discourse effectively re-articulates an imaginary of domination.

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A history of racial imaginaries: Mainstreaming the illicit industry of interracial porn in the United States (1916–2022)

Hensmans

2024

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“…Political scandals are more often than not perceived as entertainment rather than news (Apostolidis & Williams, 2004), especially as the protagonists become unwitting celebrities whose private lives are displayed in the public arena (Garment, 1992). This coverage of scandals as entertainment events also has the effect of minimizing the malfeasance of individuals or institutional failings (Just & Crigler, 2019).…”

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‘Accidental Celebrities’

Prémont,

Millette

2024

Medijske stud. (Online)

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Using quantitative analysis, we analyzed the coverage of women indirectly involved in four major U.S. presidential scandals (Watergate, Iran-Contra, Clinton-Lewinsky affair, Ukraine quid pro quo) through 258 articles published in six magazines (The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Rolling Stone) to assess how they are described by journalists. Three assumptions guided our analysis. First, women are covered in a negative way even if they are not responsible for the scandal. Second, they are covered by the magazines in a stereotypical way to describe their behavior, their character, or their role in the scandal. Finally, the coverage of women involved in more recent scandals is less stereotypical and less negative. While the literature shows that women receive more negative coverage than men when they are responsible for political scandals, our results show that this is also the case for these “accidental celebrities”.

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“…This interplay suggests that the sexual confession exists within a complex matrix of knowledge and power. The confession relies on the production of an internal secret or a hidden truth, and once the speaker voices it, this utterance becomes part of the subject's essential core (Apostolidis , 189). The speaker must confess to a person who often occupies a socially important role, or, the confession exists on the condition that there is someone to hear these utterances (Fejes , 660).…”

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Subjectification and Confession in Contemporary Memoirs of Abduction and Prolonged Captivity

Hillsburg¹

2017

Hypatia

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A striking trend is emerging in the Canadian and American literary landscape, and memoirs with the following narrative trajectory are now widely read: a stranger abducts a young woman, and holds her captive for years. She endures sexual, physical, and emotional abuse, eventually escapes, and returns to her former life. The sole scholarly discussion about these memoirs frames them as empowering for the authors, but the social and economic factors that inform these texts remain unaddressed. Drawing from Michel Foucault's discussion of the confession, this article complicates and extends this analysis. First, it situates memoirs by Elizabeth Smart, Amanda Berry and Gena DeJesus, Jaycee Dugard, Michelle Knight, and Josefina Rivera as examples of the Foucauldian sexual confession. It then maps the ways memoirs enable the authors to voice their understanding of the social and economic factors that both gave rise to their plight and inform media discussions that blame them for their suffering. I will ultimately argue that memoirs function as a public venue to resist or reject dominant interpretive frames that shape a survivor's experiences, while simultaneously reaffirming the ubiquity of these lines of thinking.

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Sex scandals, racial domination and the systemic correlation of power-modalities in Foucault

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

A history of racial imaginaries: Mainstreaming the illicit industry of interracial porn in the United States (1916–2022)

A history of racial imaginaries: Mainstreaming the illicit industry of interracial porn in the United States (1916–2022)

‘Accidental Celebrities’

Subjectification and Confession in Contemporary Memoirs of Abduction and Prolonged Captivity

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