For those of you who have missed it, a little snippet of “From Angels to Swamplings” As your cyberfeminist cyber-guide, I am taking you through the digital wilderness, through the spectral, weird and eerie, the ultra-smooth and the extra murky. As a promise of an odyssey lures me into the digital ether once again. For today, I want us to notice the landscapes of the digital ether, hop on my rickety rowboat, look into its skies, forests and waters and start noticing the cyber-fictionings emerging from all around us. The angels in their enlightened skies, the girls re-colonising the spaces of overexposure, the cyberwitches residing in the fissures of the digital and natural, sharing the forests, lakes, and lands with the cyber-nymphs and cyber-priestesses. As we traverse the wet, the mossy and the muddy do not disturb the swamplings and chuthuloid zygotes. From angels to swamplings, we trace the lineage of spectral bodies that have emerged from the digital ether and their cultures - what Sue Thomas calls - this technobiophillia, life and life-like processes as they appear in technology. What is becoming of us? What are we mutating into? The Internet and its extensions become a realm of imaginings, visions and fictionings of self. As we traverse the clarinet (the web available to us), we start seeing the digital ether littered with new species. Sure, for many these might be aesthetics, TikTok trends or waves of escapism. However, with individuals creating, embodying and manifesting as these cyber-beings, we can no longer treat these as mere aesthetics. We have to consider what values do these bodies embody, who identifies with them and for what reasons are they being used. Are fictionings of the self, girl-attitudes and aesthetics of the techno-bio-philia ways of escapism from the turbulence of our times or resistance against neo-capitalist values?
instagram.comFor those of you who have missed it, a little snippet of “From Angels to Swamplings” As your cyberfeminist cyber-guide, I am taking you through the digital wilderness, through the spectral, weird and eerie, the ultra-smooth and the extra murky. As a promise of an odyssey lures me into the digital ether once again. For today, I want us to notice the landscapes of the digital ether, hop on my rickety rowboat, look into its skies, forests and waters and start noticing the cyber-fictionings emerging from all around us. The angels in their enlightened skies, the girls re-colonising the spaces of overexposure, the cyberwitches residing in the fissures of the digital and natural, sharing the forests, lakes, and lands with the cyber-nymphs and cyber-priestesses. As we traverse the wet, the mossy and the muddy do not disturb the swamplings and chuthuloid zygotes. From angels to swamplings, we trace the lineage of spectral bodies that have emerged from the digital ether and their cultures - what Sue Thomas calls - this technobiophillia, life and life-like processes as they appear in technology. What is becoming of us? What are we mutating into? The Internet and its extensions become a realm of imaginings, visions and fictionings of self. As we traverse the clarinet (the web available to us), we start seeing the digital ether littered with new species. Sure, for many these might be aesthetics, TikTok trends or waves of escapism. However, with individuals creating, embodying and manifesting as these cyber-beings, we can no longer treat these as mere aesthetics. We have to consider what values do these bodies embody, who identifies with them and for what reasons are they being used. Are fictionings of the self, girl-attitudes and aesthetics of the techno-bio-philia ways of escapism from the turbulence of our times or resistance against neo-capitalist values?