Pornotopia: An Essay on Playboy's Architecture and Biopolitics

by Paul B. Preciado

Book Overview

Design objects, bachelor pads, and multimedia rotating beds as expressions of the relationships among architecture, gender, and sexuality.

Published for the first time in 1953, Playboy became not only the first pornographic popular magazine in America, but also came to embody an entirely new lifestyle that took place in a series of utopian multimedia spaces, from the fictional Playboy's Penthouse of 1956 to the Playboy Mansion...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1935408496
• ISBN13: 9781935408499
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Zone Books
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher