Diaries Without Padlocks. Photographic Writing of the Obscene in Social Networks, Art and Fashion

With her contribution entitled Diaries Without Padlocks. Photographic Writing of the Obscene in Social Networks, Art and Fashion, Chiara Pompa, Ph.D. in the Department of Arts at the University of Bologna, studies a contemporary setting, investigating the consequences of communication technology and the prominence of the Internet as a channel for the distribution of images. According to the scholar, the configuration of a “transparency society”, recently theorised by Byung-Chul Han, as well as its consequences, deserve a thorough reflection carried out by intersecting stimuli from social networks, the art world and fashion. The author’s ultimate goal is to provide tools to better understand the poetics of photography and the so-called “brothel without walls” predicted by Marshall McLuhan in the 1960s.