Preview | The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho (NM74)
Jan 30, 2024•22 min
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Released to subscribers: 25 Nov 2023 | For full episode, find us via https://patreon.com/newmodels & https://newmodels.substack.com
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The Girlstack w/ theorist Alex Quicho (NM74)
A conversation with cultural theorist Alex Quicho. Building on the ideas of Tiqqun’s 1999 anti-neoliberal treatise Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Andrea Long Chu’s Females and Bogna Konior’s work on the girl and the inhuman vis-a-vis the machinic, Quicho has developed a concept she calls the “Girlstack,” which, to borrow her words, models the “ultrasmooth, cybergothic, and angelic dimensions of the girl’s natural habitat.” Quicho talks with us about it here.
[To be clear… we’re speaking of not actual girls or the experience of lived girlhood, but a socially constructed ideation of the girl . . . girl as a vehicle for selling a product, girl as a tool for manipulating entrenched power, girl as living currency, girl as desiring machine.]
For more: https://amfq.xyz/
Alex Quicho, “Everyone Is a Girl Online,” Wired (September 2023)
Alex Quicho, Small Gods: Perspectives on the Drone (Zer0 Books, 2021)
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