“This book project introduces a concept I entitle ‘digital enchantment’: a framework that explores how diverse queer and trans users subvert and expand traditional approaches of privacy by creatively exploiting the features of mainstream technologies and creating their own platforms,” the description reads.
“Prevailing counter-surveillance strategies uncritically celebrate visibility and representation while positioning privacy as an individual right rooted in concealing information,” it continues. “Drawing on San Francisco case studies including drag queens, trans taxi drivers, cruising gay men, and femme witches, I look to LGBTQ+ histories that complicate these assumptions. Digital enchantment describes the hyper-visible glamour, mischievousness, and mystical intuition that many queer/trans subjects employ to playfully dazzle both the human senses and computational sensors.”
Kornstein is an assistant professor at the University of Arizona.
I’m in favor of the idea of privacy and I’m very much in favor of the idea of being as incognito as possible, especially in our lookatme social media age. But you can do that for free and without couching it in the faux-revolutionary ten-dollar-word academic babble like that, professor. I know that’s sort of just what professors do, but still.
Our tax dollars at work.
I’m in favor of the idea of privacy and I’m very much in favor of the idea of being as incognito as possible, especially in our lookatme social media age. But you can do that for free and without couching it in the faux-revolutionary ten-dollar-word academic babble like that, professor. I know that’s sort of just what professors do, but still.