IR3ABF on Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:35:34 +0100 (CET) |
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Re: <nettime> Sex Work and Consent at @transmediale |
Dear Margaret You are absolutely right in not buying that last sentence It should read: -- So an intimate and inter-personal exchange where the financial equilibrium is not of primary interest will be preferable and leaves out the socially and economically consensual dogmatics and leave the actively interacting 'consentents' in an exclusively autonomous, privately and individually sphere -- Sorry for that a politico-economical system without a 'moral' or 'ethical' ground commodifying 'desires' as marketable goods is one of the more pervers thriving impulses of much of contemporary politico-economical law-giving and is too easily neglected or completely overlooked in the discussion concerning 'sex-workers' as it is more often than not left to 'individual freedom and individual responsibilty', without a 'natural' respect for the human body The annexation of the hitherto semi-illegal practice of prostitution into the realm of modern mercantilism and into mainstream economical 'culture' is just another sign of the continuing ursurpation of the private to the public - state/corporate policed - sphere and is harming the much needed struggle for individual - non governemental regulated - economical freedom and thereby cleverly perverting the 'human rights' of the frequently (ab)used (sex) workers, who 'out of despair' are being legally incorporated into the bigger body of an already traumatized and deeply hurt society. @Morlock The same goes for other precarious workers, they too suffer from the schizophrenic situation in which they have to sell their body/brain to the highest bidder and at the same time have to maintain a self protecting defense system not to cross the border between what is permitted to one's self esteem and being lost and a toy in the hands of traffickers/publishers/dealers/managers not equiped with that scarce sense of 'nobility' Andreas Sent from my eXtended BodY On 10 feb. 2012, at 18:29, Margaret Morse <memorse@comcast.net> wrote: > Your last sentence leaves out the consensual in a way that is over my head. > How can one have an exchange, intrinsically and by definition, without > consent? # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nettime@kein.org