Quinn DuPont studies the critical history of software technologies, focusing on metaphysical, historical, and political issues. Recently, he studied the history of email, and modes of production for software development. Currently, he studies historical and philosophical issues of encryption, and software preservation. Quinn is currently a MITACS Enhanced Accelerate PhD Fellow and Faculty of Information PhD student at the University of Toronto.

search
reading
  • Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
    Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things
    by Jane Bennett
  • The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
    The Order of Things: An Archaeology of Human Sciences
    by Michel Foucault
  • Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
    Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language
    by Umberto Eco
« Creative Labour and the Role of Intellectual Property | Main | Readings by Pasquinelli »
Thursday
Oct012009

Pornography's refusal to be educated

Andrew Ross argues that,

“a large part of pornography’s popularity lies in its refusal to be educated; it therefore has a large stake in celebrating delinquency and wayward or unauthorized behaviour, and in the respect is akin to cultural forms like heavy metal music, whose definitive, utopian theme, after all, is “school’s out forever”.