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Chapter Title: Front Matter
Book Title: Pornotopia
Book Subtitle: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics
Book Author(s): Paul Preciado
Published by: Zone Books. (2014)
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Pornotopia
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Pornotopia
An Essay on
Playboy’s Architecture
and Biopolitics
Paul Preciado
Z O N E B O O K S • N E W Y O R K
2019
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© 2014 Paul Preciado
zone books
633 Vanderbilt Street
Brooklyn, NY 11218
All rights reserved.
First paperback edition
First printing 2019
No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a
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Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public
press), without written permission from the Publisher.
Originally published as Pornotopia: Arquitectura y
sexualidad en “Playboy” durante la guerra fría
by Editorial Anagrama © 2010 Beatriz Preciado,
Casanovas & Lynch Agencia Literaria S.L.
Printed in the United States of America.
Distributed by The MIT Press,
Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Preciado, Paul.
Pornotopia : an essay on Playboy’s architecture
and biopolitics / Paul Preciado.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
isbn 978-1-935408-48-2 (alk. paper)
1. Playboy (Chicago, Ill.). 2. Architecture and society.
3. Masculinity. 4. Bachelors. i. Title.
pn4900.p5p73 2014
051 — dc23
2014016769
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Zone Books
Chapter Title: Table of Contents
Book Title: Pornotopia
Book Subtitle: An Essay on Playboy’s Architecture and Biopolitics
Book Author(s): Paul Preciado
Published by: Zone Books. (2014)
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Contents
Preface to the English Edition 9
i Playboy Architecture: Performing Masculinity 15
ii Manifesto for an Indoor Man: The Awakening
of the Playboy’s Domestic Consciousness 29
iii Unfolding Domesticity: The Postdomestic Interior
and the Invention of the “Girl Next Door” 51
iv Striptease: Undressing Domesticity 67
v The Male Electronic Boudoir:
The Urban Bachelor Apartment 83
vi The Playboy Mansion: American Oïkema 107
vii The Invention of the Pharmacopornographic Bed 133
viii Playboy Spatial Products: The Playboy Club
and the Playboy Archipelago as Pornscape 181
Conclusion: The Afterlife of a Pornotopia 215
Postscript: Entering the Playboy Archive 225
Notes 229
Bibliography 257
Index 291
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These stories are 100 percent fiction. Some of them project the name
of “real” public figures onto made-up characters in made-up circum-
stances. Where the names of corporate, media, or political figures are
used here, those name are meant only to denote figures, image, the
stuff of collective dreams; they do not denote, or pretend to private
information about, actual 3-D persons, living, dead, or otherwise.
— David Foster Wallace, Girl with Curious Hair
You and I are also fictions, and we live in this collective dream.
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