Critique of Pornographic Reason: the libidinal economy in the world of camming
erotic webcamming; sex work; libidinal economy; digital market; digital ethnography
The webcam model activity is regulated in Brazil as “telesexual” and is part of a sector of the economy here termed the “sexual economy”. In proposing to investigate the emergence of this new economy, I needed to touch on a deeper question, that is, under what conditions a new productive paradigm emerged not only from the sex, but the general work structure from the exchange between technology, media, consumption and pornography at the turn of the 20's of the 21st century?