2023 · VARIOUS
Girlstack
The ‘girl’ inhabits no one person, body, or gender. She is a technology of subjectivity composed of symbolic, consumer, and inhuman elements. The ‘girlstack’ models the ultrasmooth, cybergothic, and angelic dimensions of the ‘girl’s natural habitat. She might be our only way out of the platform trap.
First published on Wired☰ and expanded at BODYSTACK⊿ and Creamcake 3HD. Ongoing investigations on Substack.
Essay, lecture & platform, ∞ mins
Visuals by Şiir Bicer
Photography by Ink Agop, © Creamcake
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“Everyone is a Girl Online,” Wired (2023)
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Rhiannon Williams, “The Download,” MIT Technology Review (2023)etc…