MDSA02H3 Chapter 11: Erotic Analysis
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In other words, eroticism concerns the subject and her/his individual desires, and not simply an innate urge to reproduce. We also find profound enjoyment in the transgression of taboos: think about slash fan-fiction. Regular civilians (the weak) took advantage and seized this moment and created something funny out of a serious situation. So one must settle instead for the way we take advantage of the system for our own ends: cumulative, treated in isolation, individual acts of resistance rarely constitute a serious threat to the prevailing social structure. But multiple acts of resistance over time have the potential to accumulate: numerous acts can, collectively, bring about more permanent change. Hence, critics should not judge the character (i. e importance) of a resistive practice according to its immediate effects: incremental, because resistance depends upon the cumulative influence of numerous. Increasingly, audiences are becoming prosumers, meaning that they are active in how they both use and interpret media.
