Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics

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By Beatriz Preciado *13

Published Jan. 21, 2016

Playboy was not just a magazine, but also came to embody a new lifestyle that took place in spaces such as the Playboy mansion and the Playboy clubs. Pornotopia traces relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality through various sites — bachelor pads, multimedia rotating beds, and others — related to the production and consumption of pornography. Preciado is a professor at the University of Paris VIII.

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