{"id":7920,"date":"2021-06-29T15:06:52","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T14:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;eventDate=2022-06-22#038;p=7907"},"modified":"2022-06-17T17:05:17","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T16:05:17","slug":"philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-s2-2022-06-22","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/event\/philosophy-and-social-theory-seminar-s2-2022-06-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory Seminar: Colin Troesken &#8220;Pornography, Videogames, and Ideology&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Abstract<\/strong>: In her 2018 paper \u201cPornographic Videogames: A Feminist Examination,\u201d Mari Mikkola argues that pornographic videogames as a category are not problematic or worthy of condemnation from a feminist perspective.\u00a0\u00a0<i>Contra<\/i>\u00a0Mikkola , I advance a view which says that pornographic videogames have category-specific features which make them especially disposed to reinforce bad sexual ideology.\u00a0 I investigate the ways in which art-categories such as medium and genre ascribe value and meaning to contents within depictions.\u00a0 I then show that both virtual media and pornography have unique expectations from audiences which partly constitute them both as categories.\u00a0 In the case of pornographic videogames, I argue that part of what constitutes the category is an expectation of harmful or misleading sexual imagery which the audience can have a prescribed interactive engagement with.\u00a0 I go on to show why the interactive and immersive components of pornographic videogames aid in reinforcing harmful sexual ideology.\u00a0 I conclude that pornographic videogames, as a category, are worthy of condemnation from a feminist perspective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abstract: In her 2018 paper \u201cPornographic Videogames: A Feminist Examination,\u201d Mari Mikkola argues that pornographic videogames as a category are not problematic or worthy of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","_tribe_events_is_hybrid":"","_tribe_events_is_virtual":"","_tribe_events_virtual_video_source":"","_tribe_events_virtual_embed_video":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button_text":"","_tribe_events_virtual_linked_button":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_at":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_embed_to":[],"_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_event":"","_tribe_events_virtual_show_on_views":"","_tribe_events_virtual_url":"","footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[52],"class_list":["post-7920","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","tribe_events_cat-philosophy-social-theory-arche-seminar","cat_philosophy-social-theory-arche-seminar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7920\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8748,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/7920\/revisions\/8748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7920"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.st-andrews.ac.uk\/arche\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=7920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}