Fake pornography on PornHub
example · personal/autobiographical ·
retold in 3 talks
Žižek confesses to looking at deepfake celebrity sex clips while obsessively searching for small traces that expose them as fake, illustrating disavowal: knowing it is fake, yet libidinally invested, and paying the price (spam forever after).
As told 2
“i knew it's a fake. but nonetheless, i was looking like crazy for... small traces. how? this is a fake”
“to get the erection back he turns away from the naked woman in front of him and grabs his phone and searches for Pornhub”
What it carries
one story, many jobs: the ideas this anecdote is deployed to argue, one tally mark per use (an idea page shows the same relation from the other end, as its shelf of stories)
contents · one story, 3 jobsuses
fetishist disavowal
×1
masturbation with a real partner
×1
fundamental gap in sexuality
×1
Its cast and sources
populated by
Bong Joon-ho1Russell (unnamed)1Dan Nădășan1Geoffrey Hinton1Alex Karp1Jon Ronson1Niklas Luhmann1Shoshana Zuboff1
alongside works
Every retelling 2
41:03 Slavoj Žižek: Should We Grasp AI Not Only as Substance But Also as Subject? - May 22, 20262026-05-22 · 1:19:04
Žižek confesses to looking at deepfake celebrity sex clips while obsessively searching for small traces that expose them as fake, illustrating disavowal: knowing it is fake, yet libidinally invested, and paying the price (spam forever after)., illustrating disavowal,phantasmatic power of AI,imaginary vs. real
In John Ronson's podcast The Butterfly Effect, a male porn actor loses his erection during a scene and regains it by searching Pornhub on his phone, illustrating that even in the most 'real' sexual situation, fantasy support is needed; the body itself is not enough., illustrating masturbation with a real partner,sexuality as fantasy-structured,split subject