ABSTRACT

Post-porn\post-anti-porn is a work in a new genre of feminism which I term fast feminism.1 Fast feminism is a mesh of the most fundamental operative principle of all feminisms – gender equality – with masculinist speed theory, originated by the philosopher Paul Virilio (Virilio and Lotringer 1983, 1987; Virilio 2003). Speed is the practice and ideology of post-contemporary society: everything rushes into its opposite and back again, only to recur. Where the power lies is in the motion. Motion\speed scrambles distinctions: the territories of philosophy, politics, pornography rush into one another, as do the cyber-body and psycho-body, as do what we once knew and lived as male and female. “What happens is between bodies,”2 and it is between and among bodies that gender assembles, disassembles, and reassembles.