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