Here, the paradox is the opportunity: the glitch shows you how things work, just as they don’t. While channeling the boldness of the manifesto form, Legacy Russell offers a nuanced look at inspiring artists whose works reprogram systems of race, gender, and sexuality in the virtual places between living bodies and data bodies.
Glitch Feminism offers technological failure, machinic anxiety, and seams in the interface as the very platforms from which we may begin to rework singular identities into inventive networks, proposing a reboot of feminist discourse. Russell is an important writer to follow as she points out shifting viewpoints of Internet politics in real time. She translates the Internet world as she lives it right now. Mark Tribe, founder of RhizomeĪ glitch is an error, a mistake and a failure to function,” and with this warning, Legacy Russell takes us on a lightening tour through the terminologies and theories of AFK, IRL, Glitch Ghosts, Digital Dualism, Binary Bodies, and other markers in the current lingo of on-line criticism. This erudite, vividly-rendered text weaves astute discussions of contemporary artistic practices with personal narrative, capital-T Theory, and virtuosic riffs on twenty-first-century slanguage. Lil MiquelaĪ timely rethinking of cyberfeminism from an intersectional perspective-a deeply personal investigation of blackness and queerness in and through technology. Glitch Feminism offers a powerful shift in mindset that empowers a generation of activist remixers. Russell helps us understand that the components of our identity are in fact technologies. This fascinating, profound and engrossing book places Legacy Russell as one of the more provocative, radical and original thinkers of her generation.' Lynn Hershman Leeson, artist and filmmaker GLITCH FEMINISM offers wry insights into the opportunities inherent in the implications of formerly discarded traces of both ourselves and our culture. Let's just admit we're done with the old empire of imperatives about both flesh and tech and tune in to those who are playing in the ruins, hacking their way through to another life.
How could it be otherwise? Rather than try for perfect order, let's embrace the glitch and find out how else it all could play out. Our software and our wetware are constantly glitching.
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