Mercedes 666 resources
updated 2024


books

Ways of Seeing, John Berger, 1972


Three essays on the theory of sexuality, Sigmund Freud, 1856-1939


The Four Fundamental Concepts of Psycho-Analysis, Jacques Lacan, 1973


Love and Sex with Robots, David Levy, 2007


Revolting Prostitutes, Juno Mac + Molly Smith, 2018


Camgirl, Isa Mazzei, 2019


On Photography, Susan Sontag,  1977


The Second Self, Sherry Turkle, 1984


Dominatrix: Gender, Eroticism, and Control in the Dungeon, Danielle J. Lindemann, 2012


G-Strings and Sympathy: Strip Club Regulars and Male Desire, Katherine Frank, 2022


Shock Value: A Tasteful Book About Bad Taste, John Waters, 2005


Art Sex Music, Cosey Fanni Tutti, 2017


Woman’s Lore: 4,000 Years of Sirens, Serpents and Succubi, Sarah Clegg, 2023


Story of the Eye, Georges Batailles, 1928


Story of O, Pauline Réage, 1954


The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real, edited by William Irwin, 2002


So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, Jon Ronson, 2015


Get Rich or Lie Trying: Ambition and Deceit in the New Influencer Economy, Symeon Brown, 2022


Camera Lucida, Roland Barthes, 1980


The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, Professor Shoshana Zuboff, 2019


Simulations, Jean Baudrillard, 1983


The Feminist Spectator As Critic, Jill Dolan, 2012


Cinema and the Invention of Modern Life, Leo Charney + Vanessa R. Schwartz, 1996


Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys, Viv Albertine, 2014
Art and Electronic Media, Edward A. Shanken, 2009


Das Kapital: A Critique of Political Economy, Karl Marx, 1867


Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm, Josh Lauer, 2011


Haunted Media, Jeffrey Sconce, 2000


Six Years: The Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 to 1972, Lucy Lippard, 1973


Video Art, Sylvia Martin, 2006


Staging the self: Self-portrait photography 1840s-1980s, James Lingwood, 1986



Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work, Melissa Gira Grant, 2014


Up Your Ass, Valeria Solanas, 1965



Nothing but My Body, Tilly Lawless, 2021



Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk, Kathleen Hanna, 2024


The Body Keeps the Score: Mind, Brain and Body, Bessel van der Kolk, 2014

articles + essays

Jenni's Room: Exhibitionism and Solitude, Victor Burgin, 2000


Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, Laura Mulvey, 1975


A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway, 1985


Jacques Lacan: The Mirror Stage, the Ego, and the Subject, Adrian Johnston, 2013


Male Gays in the Female Gaze: Women who watch m/m pornography, Lucy Neville, 2015


Cam Girl. Feral Feminisms: Queer Feminine Affinities, Jaxx Sparxx, 2018


The Capacity To Be Alone, D.W Winnicott, 1958


Surveillance history and the history of new media: An evidential paradigm, Josh Lauer, 2012


The Digital Condition of photography: Cameras, computers and display, David Bate, 2013


A Sack in the Sand: Photography in the Age of Information, Martin Lister, 2007


Moving from virtual reality exposure-based therapy to augmented reality exposure-based therapy: a review, Oliver Baus + Stéphane Bouchard, 2014


Cyborg intentionality: Rethinking the phenomenology of human-technology relations, Peter-Paul Verbeek, 2008


Virtual reality exposure therapy for combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder, Barbara O Rothbaum, Albert Skip Rizzo + JoAnn Difede, 2010


Augmented Reality: A Brand New Challenge for the Assessment and Treatment of Psychological Disorders, Irene Alice Chicchi Giglioli, Federica Pallavicini, Elisa Pedroli, Silvia Serino + Giuseppe Riva, 2015


Drone Aesthetics, Eugénie Shinkle, 2014


From Cyber to Hybrid: Mobile Technologies as Interfaces of Hybrid Spaces, Adriana de Souza e Silva, 2006


Cyberspace, simulation, artificial intelligence, affectionate machines and being human, Bert Olivier, 2012


Is Feminist Porn Possible?, Robert Scott Stewart, 2018


Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism, Rosalind Krauss, 1976


On The Sense of Loneliness, Melanie Klein, 1963



The Rhetoric of the JPEG, Daniel Palmer, 2013


Infinite exchange: The social ontology of the photographic image, Peter Osborne, 2010


'Cam Girlz' Is a New Documentary About How Great and Empowering Camming Can Be, Aidan Johnston, 2015


So How Do I Look? Women Before and Behind the Camera, Susan Butler, 1987


Dirty Data, Jakob S. Boeskov, 2019


While you were sleeping, Noemi Smolk, 2016


Machinic Vision, John Johnston, 1999


Blurred Visions, Christy Lange, 2013


Disaffected, Anna Gibbs, 2010


Performance Art Star Anne Imhof Brings Violence, Desire, and Flaming Flowers to London’s Tate Modern, Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, 2019


Venice Goes Crazy for Anne Imhof’s Bleak S&M-Flavored German Pavilion, Lorena Muñoz-Alonso, 2017


Anne Imhof “Faust” at German Pavilion, Venice Biennale: Susanne Pfeffer in conversation with Noemi Smolik, 2017




photo + art books

Dirty Windows, Merry Alpern, 1995


Shopping, Merry Alpern, 1999


Pandora’s Box, Susan Meiselas, 2002


Girl Culture, Lauren Greenfield, 2016


Belgravia, Karen Knorr, 2015


Faster Than An Erection, Reba Maybury + Cassandra Troyan, 2021


Barbie Live: The World's Most Famous Doll Having the Time of Her Life!, Nancy Ellison + Lisa Birnbach, 2000


Early Erotic Photography, Serge Nazarieff, 2002


Babe, Petra Collins, 2015


SMUT Volume One: Transgressions, Ezekiel, 2022


This Is Blythe, photos by Gina Garon, 2000


Valie Export, Valie Export, 2003


The Lusty Lady, Erika Langley, 1997


Watched! Surveillance, Art and Photography, by James Bridle, Adam Broomberg, Oliver Chanarin, Tina Enghoff, Mishka Henner + Ann-Sofi Siden, 2016


Francesca Woodman, Chris Townsend, 2007


Wanting You to Want Me: Stories from the Secret World of Strip Clubs, Bronwen Parker-Rhodes + Emily Dinsdale, 2022


Harrodsburg, Dougie Wallace, 2017



Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance, and the Camera Since 1870, by Sandra S Phillips, Simon Baker, Richard B Woodward, Philip Brookman, Marta Gili, Carol Squiers, 2010




video research + lectures

JenniShow: Episode 1, TheJenniShowArchives, 2011

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=031O1ymFrzs&ab_channel=TheJenniShowArchives


Joey Soloway on The Female Gaze, Joey Soloway x Tiff Talks, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnBvppooD9I&ab_channel=TIFFTalks


Cam Girls, Vice TV x Slutever, 2018

https://www.vicetv.com/en_us/video/slutever-cam-girls/5a946fa2f1cdb360a160dca2


13. Jacques Lacan In Theory, Yale Courses x Paul H. Fry, 2009

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkAXsR5WINc


Shannon Bell Lecture Lacan’s Gaze, York University x Shannon Bell, 2017

https://vimeo.com/239897865


The laws that sex workers really want, Juno Mac x TED Talks, 2016

https://www.ted.com/talks/juno_mac_the_laws_that_sex_workers_really_want?language=en


Beware, fellow plutocrats, the pitchforks are coming, Nick Hanauer x TED Talks, 2014

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2gO4DKVpa8&ab_channel=TED


Leading fashion photographer Nick Knight on being an image maker, Adobe UK, 2017 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPummP8Vfyk&ab_channel=AdobeUK


Artist Talk: Julia Scher, The Art Institute of Chicago, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-Gs_9KszOQ&ab_channel=TheArtInstituteofChicago


Anne Imhof: Faust / German Pavilion, Venice Art Biennale 2017, VernissageTV, 2017

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCF3buPU670&ab_channel=VernissageTV




listening

Novara Media:

Downstream: The Future of Money w/ Brett Scott

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3403u6UmpqxYXrjL3TRbAx?si=f7d7f91d5506404e


Novara FM: The Mute Compulsion of Capitalism w/ Søren Mau

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4coG5m3Zc2lHtm4BON07Dn?si=bba43d3068e8457


Downstream: Silicon Valley Fraudsters Are Lying to Us w/ Paris Marx

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7LZR9rixT22BFnAp381IDT?si=c56bb87d1e014a28


Downstream: Would the World Be Better Without Religion? w/ Aaron Dastani and Ash Sarkar

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6ykHAZvxMFEA43RVHIMPjr?si=1bddaf7f51724103


Novara FM: Sex Sells

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3nk6R8Qull4ly1Pd8GYHjF?si=eb60e139a9f243ff



Critics at Large | The New Yorker:

Portraits of the Artist

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2pdx9slx2b0CIDTshAtrGY?si=3e2886114dce4073


Can Slowness Save Us?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/34D9OR51ZsIqqmGHxxPQh6?si=a507f82d2b854470


Why We Can’t Quit the Mean Girl

https://open.spotify.com/episode/39na34GPhUDdGiTqiSP5UK?si=2019cab05d504f83



History Extra Podcast:

Sirens, succubi & sex symbols: a history of female monsters

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5OppUqJwbpOBkZ5cS2hJ6t?si=51ca7778ed9c40fd


Sex work: a brief history

https://open.spotify.com/episode/114ag1UNf3PC76ieePNY7T?si=9841a39c90a24282



Call Her Daddy:

How Does Patriarchy Affect Me?

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0QOi6FNc1MPkNlIgwnhc0h?si=54bfd3f5d1944425


Paris Hilton: Sex Symbol, Slut Shaming & Sliving

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1k2pPIb7F9yERc9coi28ht?si=90bd5b475d33448a



Chthonia:

Lamashtu https://open.spotify.com/episode/4nBmdnSWKOw5Wu1soksA5a?si=c2bff35e05af4067


Chthonia Conversations: Beyond Masculine and Feminine with Alexandros Matsangos and Geoffreyjen Edwards

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4z8s0PSdYZaFkZFeqn4Uxv?si=7e83ad6571934926


Succubus

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7Bo1tbBJtQmoXcS9D1dNrA?si=42747580230544a1



Binchtopia:

Barbietopia

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3VY6YzsASeQRT14ZyWcc0o?si=b674f6f3ac6f4e5e


Spiritual Materialism is My Roman Empire

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4YUqfYB5Ir0YMwk1cmmXDi?si=e0358e9956a64cf6


Baby’s First Simulacra

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4lmTUYcfqkrWZFQIxunLPF?si=9d36132c4c444eca


We Are All Memes

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7yweWH1kHW0lmGWixqwVhU?si=08c6b28fb3374455



The Polyester Podcast:

Dispatches From The Kardashian Simulacrum (Series)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3XS7IlVCKjfB53S2Jtkmny?si=58a10745fa5545d2


Forbidden Fruits:

Lana Rhoades, More Than Adult Film Alum

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2b6qsxUL9OaOeasVT5Ne7q?si=e7e3c75a4ef14f45


Trisha Paytas, The Accidental Artist

https://open.spotify.com/episode/77G9LegQz5qiCCz9OE3wGh?si=2d39bd28323e4976


Anna Delvey, the German Heiress

https://open.spotify.com/episode/59YwpIzzPJbViR59oIkWZP?si=1534476729074999


Chloe Cherry, the Euphoria Phenom

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5RKXh22C6QnwqWoMwGeL4a?si=e64b34229cec4b92


Zola, the Story Savant

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1IBSEQxKpIIHbaM0t4BI3s?si=71a05c3f18dc4952



STARGIRL:

Episode 19: Caroline Calloway

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0MlZ85HSyLdtZ7BnwEs9X5?si=4fa021349fb34b5e


Episode 31: Kim Kardashian

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6YonwUYDilQrZfSe7wNwGM?si=baef3ece47004e5c


Episode 17: Alix Earle

https://open.spotify.com/episode/37PnepyFLkQgPhHd13tynB?si=a0e0f9731014484a


Episode 10: Julia Fox

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7vaGIwmeO77kR8IAKx6jrz?si=d31a032c558843d6


Rehash:

Dirtbags

https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RnIDbnXQSjuyaSzFvNHN7?si=892debad4e294632


Gaslighters

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Oxlu0xwzDfoOLcHBl8ShU?si=b720e873b45b47b0


Pick Me’s

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0ISmUT8bmf4bwGMwawwdvC?si=0a4b6767a291410c


Cuties

https://open.spotify.com/episode/48clVH3R3YISukNXSYlBbH?si=ecf48e3ad10541b9


ChatGPT

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5bYppcb8ayxrB4yflaUiZl?si=a0546fc24e1c4817



Doing It! With Hannah Witton:

Explicit Sex Ed and Diversity in Porn with Lina Bembe

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3NNJ9sTjgDuoLvNlVLSRbW?si=163388269a884928


What Our Fantasies Mean and Sex Coaching with Dr Lori Beth Bisbey

https://open.spotify.com/episode/0n2yBGF9Rr3NWy8o3AVunt?si=0142eb412dac420f


Sex Worker Rights with Lady Charlotte Rose

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5FvgnVqv4gdjgeVD52ALma?si=b9374b020b974852



Glow West Podcast:

OnlyFans and Freedom: Ep94

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3iNmBLxYKPQykFgcQzSsZd?si=ab316b8669384938


Sex Tapes and Celebrities: Ep 140

https://open.spotify.com/episode/6fOwY7Rx8puEL5UoY7DpDb?si=d43429cddeb34675


Sex Power Money with Sara Pescoe:

Charlotte Rose & Eliza Harper

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4U2CiB8gf1TEBBMlxe3SlG?si=f4fd10a602b54623


Anna Arrowsmith

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5j4qYDUn4bn3jUTVIJ8Cm3?si=b69dba7611c74f35


Joana Nastari

https://open.spotify.com/episode/1hCv9Da59OLoTod9EZ4Dtz?si=aaed2b02b15f453d


Annabelle & Bella

https://open.spotify.com/episode/5H2o5uLsqZVWejMxqxKE1f?si=346cd77161464429



The Familiar Strange:

Ep #72 Weaponized Photography & Sex Work: Camille Waring on Online Intimacy & Lens Based Violence

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7qH6SMppONFQt5cxlOhxJB?si=667f08b5933841a7



PoliticsJOE Podcast:

Another round: Adam Curtis

https://open.spotify.com/episode/4Au4kN2HaAZzd5NFLYTnjh?si=7294ba6ea7eb40f3


films

Cam Girlz, Sean Dunne, 2015


HyperNormalisation, Adam Curtis, 2016


Pink Narcissus, James Bidgood, 1971


Peeping Tom, Michael Powell, 1960


Paris is Burning, Jennie Livingston, 2007


Love Witch, Anna Biller, 2016


Whores Glory, Michael Glawogger, 2011


Crimes of Passion, Ken Russel, 1984


Bound, Lana + Lilly Wachowski, 1997


Pleasure, Ninja Thyberg, 2021


Pretty Persuasion, Marcos Siega, 2007


The Duke of Burgundy, Peter Strickland, 2015


Vamp, Richard Wenk, 1986


How to Have Sex, Molly Manning Walker, 2023


Titane, Julia Ducournau, 2021


Crash, David Cronenberg, 1996


Under the Skin, Jonathan Glazer, 2013


Cam, Daniel Goldhaber, 2018


Inland Empire, David Lynch, 2007


Showgirls, Paul Verhoeven, 1996


Disobedience, Sebastián Lelio, 2018


Anti-Porno, Sion Sono, 2016


Lady Vengeance, Park Chan-Wook, 2006


Alanis, Anahí Berneri, 2017


Juliet of The Spirits, Federico Fellini, 1965


Female Perversions, Susan Streitfeld, 1996


I’m a Cyborg But That’s Ok, Park Chan-Wook, 2008


Irréversible, Gaspar Noé, 2003


Climax, Gaspar Noé, 2018


Love, Gaspar Noé, 2015


Generation Wealth, Lauren Greenfield, 2018


Hustlers, Lorene Scafaria, 2019


Chloe, Atom Egoyan, 2010


Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino, 1998


Kill Bill: Volume 1, Quentin Tarantino, 2003


Atlantique, Mati Diop, 2019


The Voyeur, Tinto Brass, 1994


Voyeur, Josh Koury & Miles Kane, 2017


Dallas Buyers Club, Jean-Marc Vallée, 2014


The Stepford Wives, Frank Oz, 2004


Eyes Wide Shut, Stanley Kubrick, 1999


Paris Texas, Wim Wenders,1984


I am Divine, Jeffrey Schwarz, 2013


The Good Girls, Alejandra Marquez, 2019


To Die For, Gus Van Sant, 1995


Cruel Intentions, Roger Kumble, 1999


One Deadly Summer, Jean Becker, 1983


Audition, Takashi Miike, 2001


Immoral Tales, Walerian Borowczyk, 1974


The Square, Ruben Östlund, 2018


Sleeping Beauty, Julia Leigh, 2011


Rize, David LaChapelle, 2005


Do The Right Thing, Spike Lee, 1989


Pink Flamingos, John Waters, 1972


Female Trouble, John Waters, 1974


All About My Mother, Pedro Almodóvar, 1999


Phenomena, Dario Argento, 1985


Suspiria, Dario Argento, 1977


Chi-Raq, Spike Lee, 2015


Red Road, Andrea Arnold, 2006


Sliver, Phillip Noyce, 1993


Jennifer’s Body, Karyn Kusama, 2009


New Rose Hotel, Abel Ferrara, 1998


Fatal Attraction, Adrian Lyne, 1987


Kika, Pedro Almodóvar, 1993


Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist, Lorna Tucker, 2018


Videodrome, David Cronenberg, 1983


The Full Monty, Peter Cattaneo, 1997


The Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii, 1995


Prevenge, Alice Lowe, 2016


Rosemary’s Baby, Roman Polanski, 1968


Love Exposure, Sion Sono, 2009


The Villainess, Byung gil Jung, 2017


A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour, 2014


Precious, Lee Daniels, 2010


Raw, Julia Ducournau, 2017


Jeune & Julie, François Ozon, 2013


The Disaster Artist, James Franco, 2017


PVT Chat, Ben Hozie, 2020


Ghost in The Shell, Rupert Sanders, 2017


Good Luck to You Leo Grande, Sophie Hyde, 2022


Sweat, Magnus Von Horn, 2021


Heavy Metal, Gerald Potterton, 1981


Red Rocket, Sean Baker, 2021


Baise-Moi, Virginie Despentes & Coralie Trinh Thi, 2000


Men, Alex Garland, 2022


Bodies Bodies Bodies, Halina Reijn, 2022


Striptease, Andrew Bergman, 1996


Yes God Yes, Karen Maine, 2020


Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell, 2020


She Said, Maria Schrader, 2022


Joyland, Saim Sadiq, 2022


Infinity Pool, Brandon Cronenberg, 2023


Nymphomaniac: Vol 1 & Vol 2, Lars von Trier, 2013


Working Girls, Lizzie Borden, 1986


Sick of Myself, Kristoffer Borgli, 2022


Closer, Mike Nichols, 2004


Barbie, Greta Gerwig, 2023


Blue My Mind, Lisa Brühlmann, 2018


The VVitch, Robert Eggers, 2015


Fresh, Mimi Cave, 2022


X, Ti West, 2022


I Shot Andy Warhol, Mary Harron, 1996


Fair Play, Chloe Dommont, 2023


Queen of Versailles, Lauren Greenfield, 2012


Passages, Ira Sachs, 2023


The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, David Fincher, 2011


Doing Money, Lynsey Miller, 2018


Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, 2023


The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes, Emma Cooper, 2022


The Real Story of Paris Hilton, Alexandra Dean, 2020


Tangerine, Sean Baker, 2015


The Lure, Agnieszka Smoczynska, 2015


Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist, Kirby Dick, 1998


Teknolust, Lynn Hershman Leeson, 2002


Possession, Andrzej Żuławski, 1981


The Matrix, Lana + Lilly Wachowski, 1999


The Birds, Alfred Hitchcock, 1963


Rear Window, Alfred Hitchcock, 1954


Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock, 1960


Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1976


Blue Velvet, David Lynch, 1986


Mullholland Drive, David Lynch, 2001


Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, David Lynch, 1992


Story of O, Just Jaeckin, 1975


Dogs Don’t Wear Pants, J.-P. Valkeapää, 2019


Satan Wants You, Sean Horlor & Steve J. Adams, 2023



Scoop, Philip Martin, 2024


Excision, Richard Bates Jr., 2012


The Doom Generation, Greg Araki, 1995


Shame, Steve McQueen, 2012


The Crush, Alan Shapiro, 1993


The Substance, Coralie Fargeat, 2024


The Challengers, Luca Guadagnino, 2024


Blink Twice, Zoë Kravitz, 2024


Anora, Sean Baker, 2024


Assassination Nation, Sam Levinson, 2018



Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn, 2016


Beyond Men and Masculinity, Alex Gabbay, 2020


Maxxxine, Ti West, 2024


Mysterious Skin, Gregg Araki, 2005


The Watcher, Chloe Okuno, 2022