Cyberfeminism—a capacious term the Index seeks to both bring into view and complicate—asks us to consider how the integration of technology into our lives should affect our understanding of the gendered self and how technology itself can serve as a tool of liberation, oppression, and intellectual dissemination.

We all know the vibes...the body is surveilled, optimised, deepfaked, hyper-embodied and dis-embodied; not post-human exactly but at the very least, networked. As author Vauhini Vara, explains in Searches: Selfhood in the Digital Age , “Our subtle self-modification according to technological capitalism’s norms is so pervasive that certain types of... See more

Sexy things are fleeting. The internet is forever. The kind of virile, salty life so many of us crave is incompatible with our sanded-down, stagnant, sanitized online existence. The chance encounter, the pregnant pause, the flirtatious touch, the generous laugh—these are the sexy, ephemeral moments of life. The scroll is endless. What’s sexy is... See more