My laptop is an extension of my memory and self

Post-Internet identity, virtual intimacy and digital queering in online popular music

Datos Bibliográficos

ID4304485
AutoresMichael Waugh (0000-0003-1705-2192, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen36
Número2
Páginas233-251
Fecha de publicación2017-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaPopular Music (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0261-1430 • E-ISSN: 1474-0095
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0261143017000083
OpenAlexW2717017475
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas13
Referencias citadas12

This article studies the ways that Post-Internet ideas inform much contemporary musical production. Drawing on interviews conducted with musicians/artists self-consciously highlighting Post-Internet themes in their work, including Arca, Ryan Trecartin, 18+, Holly Herndon and ADR, the paper emphasises the significance of the term 'Post-Internet' for contemporary identity politics. It outlines the Post-Internet ideas of Karen Archey, Robin Peckham and Nathan Jurgenson, illuminating their indebtedness to posthuman discourses through a study of the music of Holly Herndon. It then introduces the notion of 'digital queering', a trend located in the work of many Post-Internet musicians. Mykki Blanco, 18+, Arca and Ryan Trecartin fuse the posthumanism of Post-Internet identity with the fluid gender deconstructions of queer theory. This is inspired by the ability to perform multiple 'selves' online as well as the intimate relationship with digital networks that is a consequence of Post-Internet ideas

Aesthetics · Art · Cyberspace · Media studies · Posthuman · Posthumanism · Queer · Queer theory · Sociology · The Internet · World Wide Web · Digital Games and Media · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Music History and Culture