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Pornotopic Techniques of the Observer — The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet and the Pleasure of Scopic Penetration

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“Am I already in?” asked the German ex-tennis player Boris Becker in a German TV clip. He was sitting in front of his computer and tried to get into the Internet. The audience was highly amused by his desire “to be in” and was too willing to understand the erotic and sexual connotations of his question. But how does this appearantly self-evident intersection of virtual space and female body come into being?

This paper is part of my book “Pomotopische Techniken des Betrachtens. Raumwahrnehmung und Geschlechterordnung in visuellen Apparaten der Moderne”, Marburg 2001. (Pomotopic Techniques of Observing. Constructions of Space and Gender in Modern Visual Apparatus).

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Hentschel, L. (2002). Pornotopic Techniques of the Observer — The Origin of the World (1866) by Gustave Courbet and the Pleasure of Scopic Penetration. In: Härtel, I., Schade, S. (eds) Body and Representation. Schriftenreihe der Internationalen Frauenuniversität »Technik und Kultur«, vol 6. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11622-6_5

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