Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell
Glitch Feminism, Legacy Russell
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Glitch Feminism
A Manifesto

Author: Legacy Russell

Narrator: Janina Edwards

Unabridged: 3 hr 4 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 11/10/2020


Synopsis

A new manifesto for cyberfeminism

The divide between the digital and the real world no longer exists: we are connected all the time. How do we find out who we are within this digital era? Where do we create the space to explore our identity? How can we come together and create solidarity?

The glitch is often dismissed as an error, a faulty overlaying, but, as Legacy Russell shows, liberation can be found within the fissures between gender, technology and the body that it creates. The glitch offers the opportunity for us to perform and transform ourselves in an infinite variety of identities. In Glitch Feminism, Russell makes a series of radical demands through memoir, art and critical theory, and the work of contemporary artists who have traveled through the glitch in their work.

Timely and provocative, Glitch Feminism shows how the error can be a revolution.

About Legacy Russell

Legacy Russell was born and raised in New York City. She is the executive director and chief curator of The Kitchen. Formerly she was the associate curator of exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Russell holds an MRes with distinction in art history from Goldsmiths, University of London, with a focus in visual culture. She is the recipient of the Thoma Foundation 2019 Arts Writing Award in digital art, a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency Fellow, a recipient of the 2021 Creative Capital Award, a 2022 Pompeii Commitment Digital Fellow, and a 2023 Center for Curatorial Leadership Fellow. Russell's written work, interviews, and essays have been published internationally. Her first book is Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto.


Reviews

Goodreads review by josie

i want to be made uninterpretable by the algorithm......more

Goodreads review by Alex

Agh, this is a difficult book to review. I was hooked on the bio but the book, for me, just didn't live up to its blurb. It's less a book and more of an extended metaphor slash niche and lengthy university essay. Hats off to the writer though for writing something very unique that transgresses bound......more

Goodreads review by juch

i like the premise of this book, that the virtual world, as a place you don't need a body, is a place to "glitch" the gender binary/other oppressive systems provocative and refreshing in a theoretical landscape that fetishizes idea of bodies/embodiment + still tends to be technophobic i guess when all......more