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w1nd0w's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
fast-paced
5.0
This book gives a wonderful insight into how queer the body truly can be. Through its Deleuzian lens, Glitch Feminism offers a painting of an emerging body politic. It is an inspiring read for any digital native grasping at straws to meet an AFK manifestation of their online avatars. It blends stories of art, literature, history, philosophy, and dance to give a categorically profound picture of futuristic multitudes. I was searching for something to inspire and put into words the thoughts and feelings of the digital ether, confusion, and delusion I have felt for so long. Not only does it give the language to discuss this theory, but it also calls to action. One must extend their online selves AFK to live the multitudes one desires, and it allows to reader to feel comfortable and empowered to do so! Overall, loved this book and can't wait to pick up my copy of Legacy Russell's newest book, Black Meme.
theartpleb's review against another edition
3.0
It took me a minute to finish this (clearly). I was looking forward to its release, bought it when it came out, but was unable to finish it until now, after restarting it a few times. I feel like I need for reread it in one go in a much shorter period, but I found a lot of the glitch metaphors repetitive and didn’t go as deep as I wanted it to. That’s always what stopped me from finishing it. Still, the structure of a manifesto is interesting and the works cited grabbed my attention and provide more reading for me.
archanabookarchives's review against another edition
4.0
I didn’t fully grasp all that was said but it was still such an interesting!
everynothing's review against another edition
informative
medium-paced
2.5
Highly quotable fourth-wave feminism that wants each of us (especially non-white, non-male bodies) to occupy digital space as a means of disrupting binary gender images and imaginaries. In order to make the body as abstract as it is before it is named and therefore controlled, glitch feminists are supposed to live in the error, the buffering that the computer needs to try and make sense of the multiple selves that we inhabit in virtuality and that are all of us at once.
You know, it's nice to say these things. It's very interesting to see how artistic practices excel in these feminist imperatives. But what am I supposed to do with it? I'm still very confused about what fourth-wave feminism means for everyday life.
You know, it's nice to say these things. It's very interesting to see how artistic practices excel in these feminist imperatives. But what am I supposed to do with it? I'm still very confused about what fourth-wave feminism means for everyday life.
worldofbookcraft's review against another edition
3.0
“we refuse to be hewn to the hegemonic line of a binary body. This calculated failure prompts the violent socio-cultural machine to hiccup, sigh, shudder, buffer. We want a new framework and for this framework, we want new skin. The digital world provides a potential space where this can play out. Through the digital, we make new worlds and dare to modify our own. Through the digital, the body 'in glitch' finds its genesis. Embracing the glitch is therefore a participatory action that challenges the status quo. It creates a homeland for those traversing the complex channels of gender's diaspora. The glitch is for those selves joyfully immersed in the in-between, those who have traveled away from their assigned site of gendered origin. The ongoing presence of the glitch generates a welcome and protected space in which to innovate and experiment.”