An invigorating and sharply written new take on cyberfeminism. Bold, funny, and so much fun to read.

at times congested with theory and thick with descriptors, at other times heavenly inspired and inspiring. this manifesto is stuffed full of concepts and explorations of body and gender and identity and our path to self realization. it reads like a manual, or a diary filled with glued in scraps, or a livejournal printed out, or a message from the future. the size of the physical copy in my hands feels like a missal, a digital direction map for living in the glitch, as a hyperlink, as your avatar in the afk.

will be adding plenty to my tbr list thanks to this too.

really resonated with some of the ideas in this book — appreciated that “glitch” as an abstracted metaphor was stretched much past its limits & how digital language becomes a site for allegory & understanding…

but a lot of it just didn’t land. others have said this but many ideas just needed more time to develop. most engaging were the parts that actually cited artists, thinkers, writers.

i also think the book suffers from its structure of starting with the most abstract material/ideas and narrowing into more concise examples of her logic towards the end. i understand this is probably a symptom of her argument that we should first understand the body as a cosmic, abstracted, limitless entity that gets distilled, but i just don’t buy that this structure works argumentatively.

otherwise a super interesting example of how, whether effectively or not, digital culture & online vocabulary shapes the way we conceive of our own phenomenologies…

real becomes virtual becomes real again

Listened to this on audio. Mainly ideas that are already known, although some interesting aspects are explored.