Jordi Costa

Journalist and writer. He is a cinema critic contributing in the pages of El País and Fotogramas, and collaborates regularly with Mondo BruttoCitizen KAvui and La Vanguardia.

Journalist and writer. He writes about cinema, comics and popular culture and, since the 1990s, he has combined his contributions to the written press with work for radio and television. He has been editor-in-chief of Fantastic Magazineand content manager of Cinemanía, a film theme channel. He is the author of Hay algo ahí afuera (1997), Mondo Bulldog(1999), Vida Mostrenca (2002), Carles Mira: Plateas en llamas(2001), Todd Solondz: En los suburbios de la felicidad (2005) and El sexo que habla (2006), as well as collective or collaborative works such as Profondo Argento (1999),Franquismo Pop (2001), Tierra de nadie (2005) and El Quijote. Instrucciones de uso (2005). He curated the exhibitions Trash Culture: the Potholes of Taste (CCCB) and Plagiarism (La Casa Encendida), the latter jointly with Álex Mendíbil.

He currently works as a film critic for El País and Fotogramasand as a regular contributor to Mondo BruttoCitizen KAvuiand the Cultura/s Supplement of La Vanguardia and On/Madrid of El País, the television programme “Versión Española” (La 2) and “No somos nadie” on M.80 Radio.

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Interior Pornography

Jordi Costa

In the digital age, porn tends towards the democratisation of exhibitionism and the hypervisibility of private space, devoid of all glamour.

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Alphabets of transgression

Jordi Costa

These new forms of pornography have managed to be transgression for the user without the hassle involved in the old languages of transgression.