ABSTRACT
This chapter examines developments in regulatory theory and theories of power in the context of the spatial arrangements of law, cyberspace and pornography. It agues that an examination of the Act, informed by M. Foucault's theories of power and critical legal geography, answers questions about the nature of regulatory power. This inquiry may challenge legal models of jurisdiction as well as the concept of a unitary regulatory community arranged around the state. The chapter explores some tentative observations about the network of multiple regulatory communities which regulate and produce media, drawing on three examples as avenues of further research. Censorship rests on models of regulation and power that focus on the role of the state as a nexus of governance. Censors/regulators position themselves at the thin line between civilization and anarchy, holding back a tide of objectionable material which would otherwise engulf society.
