Archive - Piggy Portents

Two Instructive Scenes from Life That, in Their Parallelism, Sound Rather Like a Novel

[6/10/22, 12:29:16 PM] Kevin Stone: [responding to a story told by my dear friend *] i think there's a certain kind of abandonment, of turning off…

Jun 13, 2022 •

The Body, and the Body-ody-ody

[Hey very kind readers and supporters!

Jun 10, 2022 •

March 2022

An accessible(?) excerpt from my dissertation

On Venus in Furs and the Birth of Masochism

Mar 5, 2022 •

January 2022

When I was first coming out and sex became slightly less theoretical, I thought it was the most absurd social illusion that people sorted gays into…

Jan 4, 2022 •

December 2021

On Social Media and Form Pt 3: Twitter, Interestingness, and the Pornification of Information

Twitter, Interestingness, and the Pornification of Information

Dec 1, 2021 •

November 2021

On Social Media and Form Part 2: Technologies of the Self and Twitter Porn

Last post, I ended by suggesting that the hyper-connected algorithmically-driven mass-mediation of social media risks a homogenization of desire but may…

Nov 2, 2021 •

I’m Gonna Start Paywalling Some Posts, but Don’t Despair

Starting with this week’s post on Twitter porn, I’m going to start putting many of my posts behind a paywall. This is, largely, a marketing thing: it…

Nov 2, 2021 •

October 2021

Are Hookup Apps Virtual Cruising Spaces?

On Social Media and Form (Pt 1)

Oct 13, 2021 •

September 2021

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