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Digital Excess and the Labour of Looking

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This chapter asserts the need to reconceptualise digital porn consumption as a type of labour, bringing together seminal work on the relationship between looking and capitalism with digital porn culture. It explores the relationship between looking at pornography online and the digital attention economy, focusing in particular on the importance of pornographic excess. The fundamental shift in the meaning and function of excess is explored as this chapter considers the link between a neoliberal excess of work and contemporary porn consumption.

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Saunders, R. (2020). Digital Excess and the Labour of Looking. In: Bodies of Work. Dynamics of Virtual Work. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-49016-4_2

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