Comments on: Dirty thoughts in a digital age /2014/10/dirty-thoughts-in-a-digital-age/ THE FREE ASSOCIATION Fri, 13 Nov 2015 11:17:04 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.7.3 By: brian /2014/10/dirty-thoughts-in-a-digital-age/#comment-6505 Thu, 09 Oct 2014 08:56:50 +0000 http://freelyassociating.org/?p=1902#comment-6505 I also think dirty, grubby reality doesn’t fit easily into the digital impulse to record and archive. Which is why things get flattened into binaries: are you for or against weev? are you for or against Laurie Penny? are you for or against western intervention over ISIS?*

This taxonomic imperative is related to the identitarian drive of post-Fordism. We all get our own shiny pigeonholes to sit in. That’s why nuanced understandings of the ways in which multiple power relations interweave, overlap and undercut are increasingly parsed through the radical liberal calculus of ‘intersectionality’: gender plus race raised to the power of academia and divided by class.

*For the record: 1963; Whitney; purple.

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