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"Marketing entities like Miquela undermine the radical potential of avatars"
"Marketing entities like Miquela undermine the radical potential of avatars"
"As Lee Edelman argues in No Future, queerness “never defines an identity; it can only ever disturb one.” Maybe this “disturbing,” rather than Silicon Valley’s co-option of disruption, is a useful way to frame our moving forward. A continued preoccupation with the body, whether it is in the fetishized and stereotypically normative avatars of Miku and Miquela, the gendered fantasy figures of WoW, or even body modification itself, may only perpetuate misogyny (and other power dynamics) that these disparate methods, in their distinctive ways, aim to circumvent. Couldn’t a post-body voice be the most avataristic of all?"
"As Lee Edelman argues in No Future, queerness “never defines an identity; it can only ever disturb one.” Maybe this “disturbing,” rather than Silicon Valley’s co-option of disruption, is a useful way to frame our moving forward. A continued preoccupation with the body, whether it is in the fetishized and stereotypically normative avatars of Miku and Miquela, the gendered fantasy figures of WoW, or even body modification itself, may only perpetuate misogyny (and other power dynamics) that these disparate methods, in their distinctive ways, aim to circumvent. Couldn’t a post-body voice be the most avataristic of all?"
Im not sure if they are useful for disruption...I find it very interesting, but regurgitative in the most backwards of ways, there's really nothing futuristic about them! rather they are just a pure reflection of how far we have not gotten / the use of digital pop culture as mechanism reproducing unfortunately popular ideals.
Im not sure if they are useful for disruption...I find it very interesting, but regurgitative in the most backwards of ways, there's really nothing futuristic about them! rather they are just a pure reflection of how far we have not gotten / the use of digital pop culture as mechanism reproducing unfortunately popular ideals.
maybe you were actually saying the same thing
maybe you were actually saying the same thing
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