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Michele White, "Too Close to See": Icy You...Juicy Me
Kind of a tedious university work. It's only the cliché theory of empowerment repeated over and over, with a quote from Slavoj Žižek or Foucault here and there.
webcam: 190 occurences
empower*: 14 occurences
control: 26 occurences
wom*: 105 occurences
operator: 68 occurences
Interesting nonetheless as a historical account of the first ``women empowered webcam operators'' as it was published in 2003. I've never heard of JenniCam (1996) before.
https://splinternews.com/the-lost-history-of-the-very-first-camgirl-clique-1793858562
Found this cool web page named "The Sonnets to JenniCam", a parody of Rilke's "The Sonnets to Orpheus." http://www.polyamory.org/~howard/Jenni/
A cam can do it. How do you expect
a man to squeeze on through the wire and follow?
His mind would split. Where eyeballs intersect,
you won't find any temple to Apollo.
True Seeing, as it teaches, isn't wanting,
isn't wooing Jenni just to win her hand;
no, Seeing's Being. For the cam, not daunting.
But when are we? When does it deign to scan
her heat and heart into our being-sight?
It isn't that you lust for her, not if
the surging juices crowd your loins - that trance,
a passing fancy, will not last the night.
To see in truth's a different view. A glyph.
A blur. A quiver in the cam. A glance.