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Chapter 7

1 A recent newspaper feature article describes this phenomenon as
‘Brilliantly Boring’ and describes various websites and television
programmes devoted to presenting non-events such as cheese
maturing in real time as dumbly fascinating pseudo-events. See
Burkeman and Topping (2007).
2 See Coleman (2003, 2006, forthcoming).
3 See Hemmens (2007).
4 Dovey’s description of this zone resonates with J.G. Ballard’s
fictional representations in such works as Cocaine Nights (1996)
and Super-Cannes (2001).
5 For an extended treatment of this idea see Andrejevic (2004).
6 The ubiquitous mainstream reach of porn is illustrated by the
recent success of porn stars into previous family-orientated for-
mats: ‘Rachel Ray, whose undeniable porniness has landed her
her own magazine – Every Day with Rachel Ray – to be published
by that renowned purveyor of raunch – Reader’s Digest. The
dominion of the enteric brain has propelled porn from the social
ghetto to social diffusion just as it has propelled Jenna Jameson
to US magazine and cooking shows from Boston public television
to the big time’ (Kaufman 2005: 60).
7 See www.semiotic.co.uk/potnoodle.html
8 Nitke has published a mainstream coffee-table book of her
porn-set stills entitled Kiss of Fire.
9 Taken from an interview entitled Pornucopia with Brooke Glad-
stone, 7 October 2005; see www.onthemedia.org/transcripts/
transcripts_100705_porn.html
10 The inward looking nature of voyeurism in the contemporary
mediascape has culminated in the commercial success of DIY/
amateur porn and fictionally portrayed in Irvine Welsh’s Porno
(2002).

Chapter 8

1 This was demonstrated by the furore created by Mika Brzezinski,
a US television news presenter who objected on air to the
morning bulletin’s lead story about Paris Hilton’s previous night’s
appearance on the Larry King Show (Harris 2007).
2 Cited in Mitchell (1987: 203).
3 See Chapter 4 of Harris and Taylor (2005) for a detailed
discussion of this quality of photography.
4 In Sontag’s On Photography (1979) she quotes Edward Weston’s
photographing of toilet bowls and their equation with Greek
marble statues. In Digital Matters: Theory and Culture of the Matrix

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