# critique of jesse genders queer internet
> looking at feminist visions of the future through intelligent technologies the situation reveals some tensions
> feminist human ai projects may attempt to dismantle the master's house with the master's tools but they must be wary of inadvertently building on neat extensions to his house by mistake
> ~ alison adam artificial knowing: gender and the thinking machine 1998
bs disclaimer: robert what has few genuine qualifications to comment on this discussion and other than idly fast forwarding through the video did next to no research for this blog post and knows little about the internet or queerness
while i'm a fan of jesse gender's work the likelihood of him saying anything correct andor meaningful is low; i also only have a vague outsider's idea of queerness reading it more as philosophical strangeness or the uncanny
in summary: jesse gender's queer internet video is bafflingly bad - suffering from acute nostalgia and corporate bs bingo buzzwords - a dreamy hazy state of philosophical and political muddle guilty of confirmation bias twisting (arbitrary) culture choices to fit a (badly formed) argument
it smells like just another techno-romantic (techno-libertarian) display of technological whiteness; just bad cyberpunk science fiction needing a shorter run time less glitch effects deep blue lighting non sequitur movie clips and moody voice overs - and clearer arguments
from what i can tell jesse's video has been re-titled several times from "dreaming of a queer internet" to "how to reclaim the internet" to "how the internet was stolen from us" back to the first title (seo attempts - or merely a mild realization one is not in fact up on the subject at hand)
the video description text reads:
> here at the connection between technology and queerness in the liminality between desire and technology there is room for new imaginings
> it is no surprise then that technology which had always been promised as the horizon of the future had placed into it the dreams of those who hoped for a new future beyond the limitations we had today
> as the queer and trans community found new connections and language to express our imaginations on this new digital frontier we expanded beyond the boundaries of others expectations for our bodies
> our lives began to push and break the limits of what others said we could become
> is it surprising then that the internet has become a space for our collective queer imagination of a future horizon
first off what the heck does all that guff mean 'liminality between desire and technology' / 'horizon of the future' - as for those old hoary tech-bro tropes like the digital frontier what are you john perry 'techno-libertarianism inc' barlow or something
how exactly has the internet has become 'a space for our collective queer imagination of a future horizon'
it sounds like borderline human ai generated internet elf-hype simulation 101
it loudly states it's saying something but there's a glaring emptiness both within and at the surface
also the quoting and holding up of william gibson's lousy-arts 'neuromangler' as some kind of remote cyber-utopia is darkly laughable; talk about obsolete dinosaur warez! jesus h christ when will people stop flocking talking about that lousy supermarket paperback
cyberpunk is undead and neuromancer impatient zero of the conservative white internet nerd circle jerk
> did you know the phrase william gibson neuromancer is an anagram of common as unreliable wiring'
> - resident internet theorist robert what
the reason so many stans featuring a light pink epidermal layer still glaze on neuromancer to this day? they have no imagination and must forever harken back to old safe ideologically bleached models of some bs retro-future (a future that perfectly benefits them and them alone)
even if that future gets spray painted with all the shades of a rainbow how does that make it any less pale and stale as a whole
gibson's mass shared technological hallucination was never anything more or less than (/his own unchecked) technological whiteness; a hyperreal global capitalist neurospectacle of empty headed bs
the reason for this is simple; william gibson is a total square dweeb radish and didn't do enough of the right drugs in the 60's; his version of the future web is toothless boring and directly resulted in johnny mnemonic
the last amazing line of which is a response to cyberpunk's bloated undead corpse being dragged out to the historical-cultural trash heap while the mighty ice mother flockin t says "just garbage - get that out of here!" damn straight - salt the remains
to consider queerness as ultimately not enough of a threat to capitalism because capitalism is always anti-capitalist anyhow and queerness today just another of it's alternative or disruptive lifestyle choices just one on an infinite consumer menu where the ideological order of the day is "any color as long as it's rainbow"
dylan mulvaney's rainbow influencer capitalism aside consider white queerness as a bunch of artificially colored m&m's made in a factory by depressed robots
it takes a certain mindset to hype up a lousy violetly overrated sci-pulp airport novel representing a conveniently innocent enough retrofuture vision of a lousy 80's movie starring a dead-eyed talent challenged actor keanu humble living millionaire buddha loved universally and unequivocally reeves
"we want virtual room service!" - but you already own the entire flocking hotel little johnny san (check out the part in mnemonic where he dons yellow face to avoid detection as the hopeless case he is - what a dim farce)
> a future where our imagination becomes a tangible realm of collective dreaming
this is so vague and meaningless it could come of an 80's apple hypercorporate dystopian-utopian "think different" marketing campaign
thing it the net is only ever a giant hollow marketing advertisement for itself; there is no outside which is precisely one needs to log off go out and touch (/gr)arts
jesse's overview of cronenberg's videodrome also feels so amazingly wrongheaded it could be another late night cable tv show on channel 83 called jesse's queer internet (or is that the pink opaque)
tonight volks we'll be precisely misinterpreting videodrome in the exact wrongheaded way internet randos o' whiteness analyze jean baudrillard's notion of hyperreality in relation to that lousy matrix movie starring that multi-millionaire dolt keanu
the idea of maxx renn feeling emasculated or feminized because he develops a 'synthetic yonic orifice' (band name of the year) and feels the need to penetrate it with his all-male pistol seems such a stretched interpretation (ie trying to clearly link this bizarre old b-movie to a 'queer internet') it's almost impossible to parse
to then go on to say this is because barry convex and his merry band of techno-control freaks of whiteness is strictly binary in it's view of sexuality is nonsensical; not that there's anything wrong with a queer reading of videodrome (indeed more is needed) but jesse that ain't it
videodrome's main protagonist max renn is not a nihilist; just because actor james woods is a staunch republican goatse doesn't mean videodrome is an excuse for renn to fuel his directionless anger (you what)
twisting and warping (already warped!) videodromic evidence to fit one's dubiously argued vision of a queer internet does nobody any favors
also the notion of biancia o'blivion having a philosophy of technology that is egalitarian and about connection and caring is laughable - both of them are already part and parcel components of the entirely closed videodrome circuit
they're no more on (/sexually) opposing sides then the zero's and one's which make up the code of the global matrix of digital control
one suspects jesse has chosen videodrome to illustrate the innate liberating possibility-spark of technology (gee that old lie again) because at least it seems genuinely weird enough intellectually as a retro analogue cultural artifact to cross over into the daily as-lived social reality of queerness - it does not
videodrome / cronenberg et al do not give a digital shed about queerness; philosophically speaking there is no liberating potential in the code only the horrible undead blankness of technological whiteness
exactly how the flock can leftist queer videodrome foster egalitarian connectivity unless it's the egalitarian connectivity of everyone on dead earth simultaneously hooked up to meta or some other evil flocking rich white techbro shed
to question globe-spanning technology is to resist whiteness and it's digital colonialism
this whole (ie fragmented) dialogue about queer technology the feminizing nature of technology feminist techno-science and the queerness of biosynths sounds like a load of old undead technological whiteness - thoroughly traditional circuits with a rainbow twist / mutation / spin
technology is only neutral(tm) in the sense of a giant bleached undead corpse of techbro whiteness flocking over everyone on site
technology / capitalism is terminally boring and smells like grinding work; it seems unlikely a queer version of the internet will alienate anyone any less - make anyone's inherently lousy bs mcjob lozenge at the powerpoint factory less soul crushingly dull
and no - donna j haraway's biosynth manifesto is a dangerously / conveniently naive reading of technology
it's also painfully abstruse stuffed full of academic obscurantism refusing to eschew obfuscation and espouse elucidation
plain language is kryptonite to the academia of whiteness
maxx renn is directly controlled by biancia o'blivion who is as equally stupevil (stupid plus evil; the evil of stupidity) as her idiot father of techno-whiteness
is max therefore more queer and politically liberated as a result? - is he bollocks
is there a logic fallacy in latin called "argumentum a queerness" (argument from queerness) when it comes to discussions over technology
does anyone in the real world really give a flock if one's boss is queer - even if he's flockable he's still just a capitalist asshole full of shed
we need more weird queers and less pasty white capitalists up in this particular party
why is it with discussions about technology and the internet both technology and the internet are always the (tautological) baseline reality; why is it always "yes technology always first and foremost - and then" (insert whatever aspect of technology one wants to discuss)
what's so flocking holy and gleaming about the internet - it's all just one big dead mmo run by bots
in this sense isn't technology exactly the same as whiteness - the apparent universalism of tech / the inherent privilege and fascistic violets of global whiteness
"whiteness always and then (for example) a nicer more egalitarian caring sharing whiteness" a neurospectacle without an outside
techno-this techno-that - white-this white-that
what's the difference when difference itself already exists within the (technological) sphere of homogenizing undead sameness
"buy new improved difference today and make a difference!" like max you can change the program sure but you're still eminently programmable you poor dim pink schmuck
you know you're onto a sure winner when tired magazine does a positive write up on you:
https://www.wired.com/1997/02/ffharaway/
when wired states haraway herself is a veteran of 60s counterculture it's only ever actually referring to 'the californian ideology'
> in donna j haraway's a biosynth manifesto haraway discusses how nature and the body have been feminized to create a masculine cult of technology
what no she doesn't! isn't that reading just flat out wrong
in which cyberfeminism is bs not least because of it's very name (it has the laughable nerd prefix cyber before it)
and who among us will get to steer guide or govern feminism in a way that benefits more than rich ultra-privileged capitalistic queers of advanced technological whiteness
the very notion of a humane techno-culture is an oxymoron just another empty marketing buzzword thrown around by (neo) liberal billionaires and their (/unwitting) ideological lackeys
at least the term techno-queer (edmond y chang) sounds like a bad willfully obscure 80's sci fi movie starring christopher lambert
the idea of a biosynth as some happy perfectly natural conjunction of humanity and nature seems so far up it's own synthetic arts one might as well appear on television on television in order to promote it
it doesn't even sound good on paper / 80s public access cable tv
discussing the arpanet (of all things white undead and scientifically dangerous!) jesse states "in it's earliest days the internet fostered collaboration and openness with universal codes and open source software facilitating communication and innovation"
yeah all entirely in the flocking service of being able to send trigger signals during a total new clear flocking calypso!
the true world destroying horror hidden in the very notion of the robust survivability of distributed adaptive message block switching cannot be whitewashed away by talking about apple-esque 'collaboration and openness'
even if a significant proportion of scientists working on arpanet _were_ in fact queer
but then oh no! by the 90's the internet was becoming commercialized - as though 'thoroughly nuclearized' wasn't already bad enough
the rot of technological whiteness was always there but pink nerds lament commercialization
talk about ideological priorities as though prioritizing profits over public good wasn't directly born out of prioritizing actual human existence over 'new clear data packet survivability'
why do online discussions concerning fusions of the biological and the technological often sound like new age = sewage transhumanist / technological singularity marketing batsheddery
and what exactly are these definitions of biological and technological; who gets to define (and profit by) them
the "biosynth's revolutionary potential" is only revolutionary in the a revolution for your breakfast or zuckerborgian move fast and break things shed-sense
according to jesse renn's "final act of elf destruction to transcend the old flesh symbolizes a break from the oppressive control of technology's initial aims"
what a crock - ren was always fully technological (raw videodromic code which is always fully ideologically cooked) and just got another biopsychic software upgrade
videodrome did indeed imagine the internet's boundness potential - but for ignorance error and the global public neurospectacle that is information itself
in this day an age does any feel that all destructive it needs to radically mutate itself beyond the inherent confines of stupevil hypercorporate whiteness are chips make by queers or a 'rainbowing of the web'
of course not
here's mark fisher from capitalist realism:
(..) the mismatch between a post-literate new flesh that is too wired to concentrate and the confining concentrational logics of decaying disciplinary systems (do you mean the internets - robert what)
> by the mid 1990's the internet and computers had become a ubiquitous part of (white -robert white) suburban america-ized life
and there lies the exact problem with jesse's whole video essay
the nets were only ever really a white world white wet dream; it's own unceasing ignorant will-to-dominance extended digitally
> to call hackers (the film or the culture? -rob) a counterculture makes it sound like they're a transitory thing; we think they're the next step in human evolution
> - rafael moreau
pfft yeah if sunlight sensitivity stinking armpits choking off to digital filth with sandpaper cheese based snacks bong hits archery and a tendency toward hating women and black people are indeed an evolution of whiteness
if a single hacker or any of them had ever made a digital gnat's fnart worth of difference to anything except their own elf appointed legendary status or their illegal bank accounts why is the current world still as terminally boring existentially dull undead feeling and generally meaningless as their own nerdy lives o' technological whiteness
(disclaimer; robert what used to be part of the 'near future retro 90's deep southern uk amiga demoscene' and let him tell you a bigger bunch of laughably egotistical no-life _leet_ rando anorak-wearing saddo basement radish tosspots he's never met / been since)
what's that old graffiti: "if politics are the answer then you're asking the wrong flocking question"
well might 'the internet' also be the same wrong question
give it a single week and we don't think anyone other than nerds of whiteness would even notice it's disappearance
not that it's not already totally invisible already due to the fact of it's total interpenetration with our daily lives - a dis-ease you don't even know you've already got
jesse talking about the somehow visionary symbolism of a better web implied by laughably bad whipepo flick hackers (1995): "it's a dream world we could have built from scratch"
note how this sounds exactly like the chinese emperors of old who upon reaching the throne and imposing an utterly destructive pogrom upon their enemies and populations of the previous reign would proudly announce that 'all history starts here!'
fast forward to england 2008 and gordon brown's 'new labor new laptop' bs for poorer families somehow vaguely hoping that generously quango-reaching across the great digital divide would somehow.. something
the scheme was soon dropped like a stale media-friendly meat pie in favor of simply continuing to give unfair support to pupils from already rich upper middle class families of whiteness
nothing is ever built from scratch; that anyone exists at all is too often due to untold millions suffering in the dirt unknown and unloved (if not actively hated)
for instance what horrors does one imagine poor black people in far off foreign exotic land have to go through just so white city dwelling nerds can get their daily wage-slave drug dose of coffee
just who the heck do these people asking for more (pseudo) radial reinventions of the net imagine actually own and run it
do they honestly think that just because (/lesbian) grandma used to have her own knitting page on geocities the very anti-nature nature of the internet of whiteness will change by a single significant degree
there's simply not enough serious philosophical doubt in this video - merely vaguely hopeful buzzwords
> their dreaming of a possibly new reality matches the queerness and transness that permeates this film (videodrome)
bullocks does it and doesn't say much about the 'like radial man' socio-political nature of queerness and transness if a random lousy 90's unrewould vhs movie uncritically stanned on by white nerds is the best model of a 'newer queerer / stranger internet'
how exactly is queerness and transness a radial elf-actualization simply because gays had their own usenet newsgroups
and how did they remain anything but still essentially marginal (white privilege not withstanding)
technologically speaking the positive effects of queerness don't appear to scale; greater online representation over time does not in any way equal real world rights or respect
this is because the actual inherently larger sources of power and influence running society scale up at the same time - obviously
it's just like cars; building ever more highways only encourages the numbers of cars - just as intended
but why do modern nerds of whiteness say 'flock cars' as they should but not 'flock the net' as at this point the internet and capitalism are one and the same
almost like they never flocking weren't
it's because the term 'internet' is a conveniently fuzzy abstraction that idiots (those who as in the original greek meaning don't take part in social life but just stare at hand held black mirrors) can conveniently project their silly little white utopian dreams upon - which are of course a living nightmare for everyone else who deemed not cool and leet enough to be in their little global club
the aesthetic use of glitches in this video is telling
glitches are usually meant to indicate sand in the vaseline a spanner in the works - a rogue element in the system a sudden and unexpected radial break with tradition and control
yet for some time now it's been nothing but a tired visual cliche and philosophically eye rolling
to paraphrase barack obama - "glitch please"
while queerness isn't a glitch it isn't a break from the capitalist matrix as merely another pseudo-new! and exciting twist to it
here's mark again:
> (..) 'alternative' and 'independent' don't designate something outside mainstream culture; rather they are styles in fact the dominant styles within the mainstream
> ~ white mark fisher is still dead - capitalist realism: is there no alternative
to note the fascinating link between queerness in terms of the nonbinary (analogue rainbow hued) and the digital (zero / one our side and their side etc)
thing is these two are not themselves binaries - the physics of the digital are themselves analogue
"we saw the tv glow" has basically nothing to do with either reclaiming or queering the internet
two schools of thought (running parallel): one in which you do not think as jessie does that "we saw the tv glow" is a cinematic masterpiece
and the other in which queer nonbinary culture consider "we saw the tv glow is a timely cinematic masterpiece _for themselves_"
since we're personality not a well hung horse in that particular race we belong to the first school
we consider the movie is monotonous laughable bollocks - not a raging monster of badness just plain rubbish
bad writing wrongly / pretentiously acted no clear dramatic arc slower than frozen molasses but hoo boy is the hashtag '#aesthetic'(tm) ever there
but then that's all it's got going for it - not that this isn't more than enough
look more on this later
for jesse isttvg is "about the dream like realm found between the scan lines"
do what? how is that remotely a viable political blueprint for a (forever delayed) future queerer internet and not just a bunch of uselessly vague techno-romantic fluff
after introducing the vhs consumerist world fnart bubble of isttvg to us jesse then says:
> they are trapped in the cliffhanger finale of season five the show's last season before it was cancelled (probably due to a sizable portion of the minuscule audience (dropping dead from terminal mediocrity - rob) and this reality they're in right now is a dream
binary gender distinctions become meaningless in a future where we can create our own bodies
we suddenly laughed out loud when we heard that last sentence
a non sequitur fallacy if there ever was one:
a) show some brief footage of a naff movie we love
b) make a following statement which directly suggests that this footage clearly illustrates and supports whatever argument one thinks they're making
jesse does this several times throughout the video - like flocking neuromancer
"neuromancer: a neon tinted realm where bgdbmiafwwccoob (binary gender distinctions become meaningless in a future where we can create our own bodies)"
enough with the invalid culture inferences already what is this 'ready player one'
> for owen this (isttvg) is a world of power purpose connection hope
it is filled with mystery and terror
> the unknown that is terrifying sometimes malevolent yet always enthralling
talk about a corporate world salad that sounds like it's been used to sell sneakers hamburgers or a new duck warts cream
> (..) with his imagination filling in the notstory in between the scan lines
yeah exactly what uncritical viewers must be going with this video since (like the movie itself) there's so little to cling on to except a (systematically vague hashtag aesthetic feelie)
https://tetsuobroker2099.blogspot.com/2013/08/book-review-feelies-by-mick-farren-1990.html
> when the show's all watched in a binge (format) made for easy consumption it seems empty embarrassing and childish
so finally now we're getting down to it
welcome to the internet and to jesse's well produced well meaning but superficial video
is anyone seriously meant to be believe if that the internet looked more like the web seen in such luminary electro-visions (rolls eyes) as hackers johnny mnemonic and the pink opaque we(tm read mighty whitey gay or otherwise) would instantly all be better off
getting misty eyed and dreamy over brain dead mass media (/that looks like it's) from the nineties simply isn't healthy
talk about the dark deadpan anti-irony of corporatized collective memory! flock the nineties
stop toking all that cancerous undead vaporwave flavored cultural product
jesse:
> the technological language of the 1990's was the language of which we and so many queer and trans youth of my generation built our dreams upon
despite its corporatization the internet made the existence of transness visible to youth who never had it before
the 90's internet wasn't somehow sadly corporatized or incorporated but was the very central expression and project of evil cyberpunk megacorporate amerika
how isn't the net corporate through and through
as for the technological language of the 1990s what's that - aol altavista and ask jeeves
exactly what kind of dreams would it be possible to build using all that retro shed
finding oneself between the stories in between the scan lines is at best a bit cringe and at worse unhelpful and condescending linkedin nonsense and uselessly idealist hoping for the best handwringing
possible new term the 'pink opaque': "a sucky state of mental muddle and dangerous anti-ironic nostalgia caused by willing systematic uncritical consumption of inherently lousy 90's (andor 90's style) corporate ya mass media directly resulting in blindly glowing reviews"
hey exactly the same as white nerds who endlessly extol the infinite inherent circus neurospectacle of amazement and wonder that is the internet of techno-whiteness - talk about a close leet circle jerk of digital inbreeding
anyone genuinely taking tpo as a wondrous magical and celebratory model of anything a world of power purpose connection hope (jesse) has had their brains swapped out by mass culture for a boiling toilet bowl of flamingo colored bubblegum and needs to run a checkkedly-check
if you honestly think (like youtube vlogger chris stuckman) that "this is one of the very few times that we've ever seen a movie that felt like a dream" than your trippin on the charming disarming surrealist error of your own uncritical consumption and should instantly have a hot fresh ayahuasca enema before you spontaneously collapse into the void of white hyper-nerdy consumerist privilege
not necessarily talking about jesse's video - "is it just me or" is does the internet (which is made of soylent people) display some kind of desperate fawning clawing need to collectively believe whatever it is (at least until the next thing)
one can't merely like something it has to be the absolute flocking best and most important thing evar like oxygen
every shed-arts movie that's pinched off every playstate every review
fantastic; brilliant; what a time to be alive
jesse talking about a horny dream sequence in hackers:
> (..) connecting desiring him across supposed binary outputs
how does whatever that means supposed to then cognitively map onto 'a better queerer internet'
> their imagination is truly beyond the limits of what others tell them to be
do what sounds like a cheesy corporate advert for the lousy early 90's collective connective internet
'be all you can be online'! the verb to-be is too often the most vacuous hollow term disguising all kinds of dubious bubble-headed bs (it's no surprise michelle obama's awful pr-firm-ghostwritten sociopathically selfish nakedly elf-aggrandizing supermarket paperback is called 'becoming' - talk about a giant void-sucking nothing burger)
hackers is about as subversive is playing cyberpunk 2077 and imagining oneself as a rockstar cyber magician / digital voodoo warlock who through frantic typing of random keys (like that cat gif) visually overstimulating on-screen activity (colored shapes moving around) and realtime tech jargon (ala "it's a unix system - i know this") can crack the world's most complicated computer security systems in seconds
all resulting in according to jesse
> (..) a chaotic symphony of diverse life and unique human joy pulling together in subversive beauty!
this is so far away from the daily as-lived political realities of modern postmodem corporate-owned mass communication networks that one has to sit back in awe at the non sense on display in jesse's video which proudly harks back to a golden (undead) age when the buzzword 'digitization!'(tm) was somehow held up as an all-powerful all-encompassing all-meaningful symbol of a brave new world waiting around the corner (ah those were the truly pink & opaque daze!)
alas it's just another form of flying cars bs
just for a dark laugh we asked chatgpt the following: 'suggest how a queerer internet would be a good thing'
here's chatgpt's psychotically standard / standardized response:
> a queerer internet could bring a lot of positive changes to online spaces and communities
> here are some ways it could be beneficial:
> increased representation: a queerer internet would offer more diverse and authentic representation of lgbtq+ identities
> this could help individuals feel seen and validated which is crucial for mental health and elf-acceptance
> inclusive communities: it would foster more inclusive and supportive online communities
> by prioritizing lgbtq+ voices and perspectives these communities could offer safe spaces where people can connect share experiences and find support without fear of discrimination or harassment
> greater visibility for lgbtq+ issues: a queerer internet would help bring lgbtq+ issues to the forefront increasing awareness and understanding
> this could lead to more informed discussions and advocacy influencing policy changes and social attitudes
> diverse content and creativity: the presence of a wider range of perspectives can lead to more innovative and diverse content
> creators from different backgrounds bring unique viewpoints and ideas enriching the internet's cultural landscape
> role models and mentors: it would provide more role models and mentors for lgbtq+ individuals
> seeing successful visible queer figures can inspire and guide others offering practical advice and emotional support
> overall a queerer internet could contribute to a more vibrant equitable and compassionate digital world
gee thanks in short this is your thoroughly heavy handed thoroughly basic dumbed-down politically safe corporate answer ie brain dead automated machine response which in no way got beyond the official dictionary definition
this is danger of always being online it's always only ever about itself and only about real people by symbolic proxy or accident
imagine being an existential back seat to a flocking machine owned by some rich white bleached asshole - how depressingly ignoble
shirley 'queering the internet' isn't merely just about greater representation and diversity no matter how more vibrant equitable and compassionate it makes whatever vague-scape is implied by the digital world but as the word 'queer' indicates is about clearly operating outside of the accepted norms
rich pink skinned upper middle class gays and their unchecked privilege aside for a moment if it was somehow ever actually queer and strange then the internet wouldn't even be the internet
it would simply cease to be cared about and people's time and attention would be focused on more important matters
anything is more important than the internet which is by far and large always merely 'the internet of whiteness'
after all 'queerness' and 'the net' appear to travel in diametrically opposing directions one toward genuine humane connection and organic mystery and the other only ever to itself it's own tautological neurospectacle of paranoid elf surveillance and elf congratulatory pseudo cleverness
the internet and capitalistic techno-whiteness go hand in hand; talk of making the nets a safer space for queerness is only ever more safe infinitely dull politically compromised white tech-bro jive
flock the internet and what it needs or may marginally improve'; how about real people and actual flocking reality for a (genuine) change
since when did the sucking white void of net uber alles become the only possible horizon / border of our political / sexual discourse
even though it would indeed be better and more interesting a slightly queerer internet is always only ever another case of the wrong question (hey forget unsexy shed like white capitalism caused anthropogenic climate disaster let's all get online and continue to chat and argue about it forever! surf naked!) the internet is a dead mall; this is because capitalism is terminally boring
example links
- the californian ideology wikipedia
- wikipedia: lgbtq billionaires
- we've forgotten that lgbtq nerds helped create online life as we know it
- huffington post - gay will never be the new black: what james baldwin taught me about my white privilege
- in the first part of my history of early online lgbtq spaces we focused on the newsgroup socmotss and the singular group of people it drew together
- slate: lgbtq nerds and the evolution of life online
- the atlantic: the internet is a collective hallucination
- itch io: between the scanlines
// republic of bob