public : private<\/p>\n
democratic : discrete<\/p>\n
“What happens to the things exiting both inside and outside of the binary opposition?”
\n– Sarah Williams, Monday lecture<\/p>\n
(here i interpret binary oppositions as\u00a0social divisions of human\/computer, male\/female,\u00a0work\/family, colonizer\/colonized, friend\/lover, hetero\/homo,”unmarked personhood”\/racial-, ethnic-, and class-marked identities)<\/p>\n
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How does a simple “boundary” reverberate to make the world intelligible?<\/p>\n
I am thinking about source codes and the various forms of hacking. Hacking which takes place inside of the virtual body and hacking which takes place inside the intimate body. Here, I would define a virtual body as nonsingular and not an entity, but rather, the interaction between human and computer. Similarly, I would not define an intimate body as singular entity in itself, but the mediation between human and the aesthetics of attachment. From Lauren Berlant, I quote, “Contradictory desires mark the intimacy of daily life: people want to be both overwhelmed and omnipotent, caring and aggressive, known and incognito.” (Berlant 5)<\/p>\n
In what ways do these new binary oppositions (offered by Berlant:: of overwhelmed\/omnipotent, caring\/aggressive, known\/incognito) serve to uphold the social divisions of our society? On a related note, how do they help to potentially answers questions about what virtual & intimate hackings of the body would look or feel like?<\/p>\n
When I think about what it would mean for me to create a\u00a0source code for my body, the boundaries between virtual and intimate become challenged. I was born with a\u00a0code already governing\u00a0my body, but because it was\u00a0a “fixed” code\u00a0serving to uphold standards of normativity, it had no real stability amongst myself and the multitude of bodies (imaginary, sexualized, gendered, laboring, and technologically augmented) that I grew into\/\/am\u00a0becoming. I inhabit a space that is\u00a0subject to constant fluctuation. I am in body drift. I circulate, fluidly, and\u00a0transgress. In my liquid drifting state, I am both overwhelmed and omnipotent, caring and aggressive (intermediating w\/ myself and my multitude of bodies), and asking to be both known and incognito as I attempt to overcome the predetermined, and hack (or rewrite) my own bodily code.<\/p>\n
“Nothing is as imaginary as the material body.” (Kroker 3)<\/p>\n
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Berlant, Lauren. Intimacy. Chicago: U of Chicago, 2000. Print.<\/p>\n
Kroker, Arthur. Body Drift: Butler, Hayles, Haraway. N.p.: U of Minnesota, 2012. Print.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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\ndemocratic : discrete
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\n– Sarah Williams, Monday lecture
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