Diego Costa To Speak at San Francisco State University

Diego Costa will be presenting his talk “Black Penis, White Phallus: On The Virtuall Outsourcing of Perverse Labor (Or, the cuckold fantasy as colonial encounter)” at the Queer Yo Mind Conference at San Francisco State University this Friday, October 26, 9 a.m.  The talk is based on Costa’s recently published chapter for the book ‘Produsing Theory in a Digital World: The Intersection of Audiences and Production’ (Peter Lang Publishing, 2012). It asks what the pornographic scene of cuckoldry, interracial even when not manifestedly so, says about male blackness’ undergirding, enacting, and guaranteeing the machinery of constitutive difference (racial and otherwise) in the 21st century: How is phallic labor outsourced to black masculinity in the digital age? How does blackness, or the white fantasy thereof, work as a prosthetic guarantor of the (white heterosexual) Symbolic through the pornographic?