Altruistic Pornographer, The

A Semi-Satire

Author: Robert Cettl
Length: 13 page(s)
Written: June 2011
Sales Rank: - XinXii Sales Rank

Views: 709

Category: Sex, Love & Erotic » Studies | Work: Other
Keywords: satire, christianity, religion, erotica, pornography, transgression

Semi-satiric philosophical defense of pornography as transgression.

A semi-satire taking off from Michel Foucault's simulacrum theories and Richard Dawkins' meme concepts, The Altruistic Pornographer argues the impossible - that "porn" is a humanist, beneficent artform and that its practitioners embody human virtues.

Fully referenced in an interactive bibliography and backed with contrasts between porn theory and Christian ethics, this unique mini e-book experience relentlessly mocks Christian legacies as author Cettl - an outspoken atheist and member of both the Australian Society of Authors and the Australian Library & Information Association - is wont to do.

A no-holds barred re-appraisal of the role of the pornographer as post-modern archetype, this is a radical piece of counter-culture aesthetics. Inverting the traditional morality that demonizes pornography, The Altruistic Pornographer paints an ideology where adult filmmakers are benevolent enablers and Christians are hypocritical, totalitarian oppressors. In testament to the author, it works both as serious treatise and satire: But which is it?

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About the Author

Robert Cettl
Member since: Dec 2010
Publications on XinXii: 19

Robert Cettl is a freelance author and digital publisher.

He has a BA (Hons) from the Flinders University of South Australia - which included an international student exchange scholarship to the University of Southern Illinois at Carbondale in the USA. In addition, he holds a GRAD DIP (Inf. Stud.) from the University of South Australia and a GRAD CERT (TESOL) from Flinders University. In 2010 he was a SAR Research Fellow at Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive in Canberra. He is an associate member of ALIA (Australian Library & Information Association) and an independent filmmaker.

His published works of film non-fiction for renowned Academic publisher McFarland - Serial Killer Cinema: an Analytical Filmography with an Introduction and Terrorism in American Cinema - have been collected by such as Yale University Library, the British Film Institute and the National Libraries of China and Australia. His interests are censorship history, erotic film and transgression theory. He currently balances Academic writing and social publishing as a freelance author and independent digital publisher / ebook designer branching into multi-media.