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Blog Post #2: February 6th ⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢⋆‧°𓏲ּ𝄢v⋆‧°

The reading I chose for this week was Legacy Russell's “Introduction,” in Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto (Verso Press, 2020). I found the position Russell writes from to be a really interesting way of approaching the intersection of identity and technology. Specifically, I loved their discussion of the digital as a site for world building, and the idea of “machinic mutiny,” resisting physical world constraints through digital possibility.
I first encountered the concept of world building last year through Rehearsals for Living by Leanne Betasamosake Simpson and Robyn Maynard in a first year humanities and climate change course. I bring this up because even though Simpson and Maynard imagine world building as a radical antithesis to capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy, I never conceived of this practice as transferable to the digital. Russell’s framing of a new politics of becoming and the idea of dematerializing the body digitally and beyond is just!!!! LOVE! 𝕃𝕆ℂ𝕂𝔼𝔻 𝕀ℕ! ᕙ( •̀ ᗜ •́ )ᕗ

I want to spend the next bit of this post breaking down this concept as Russell defines it. Glitch feminism responds to the oppressive roles placed on the body, which is constrained through its binary functioning as a “machine” of gender, capitalism, and the state. When marginalized bodies refuse to conform to this binary, a glitch enters the system. A glitch demands a response, a restructuring, but also creates a space to exist outside the system entirely. This was honestly really profound to me. I also loved hearing our class discussion which showed a lot of my classmates identifying with this concept of a glitch. This reading made me consider my own digital identities differently. Pretending to be a boy on Roblox as a kid, or running a non gendered Twitter account, suddenly these feel slightly more radical. I also appreciated the modernity of this reading. Since much of our course content focuses on 90s and early‑2000s Internet art/cultures, Russell’s contemporary framing becomes a really cool lens for movements like the etoy.CORPORATION and their version of the glitch.

I hope you enjoyed this blog post and my perhaps rudimentary exploration of Russell’s manifesto (what can I say its hard to follow)!

Looking forward to future posts, and hoping you're enjoying my copy paste internet art,
Ellie ⋆˚✿˖°
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