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quiddity

He may be president, but he is not presidential. The liberal world is in mourning for this dispositional quiddity, presidentialness.

—p.81 ‘One thinge that ouerthroweth all that were graunted before’: On Being Presidential (81) by China Miéville
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the rejection of a here and now

[...] the actualisation of desire and expansion of joy deserve a place in our futurity – what José Esteban Muñoz, in Cruising Utopia, sees as queer utopia. ‘Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.’…

—p.78 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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the rejection of a here and now

[...] the actualisation of desire and expansion of joy deserve a place in our futurity – what José Esteban Muñoz, in Cruising Utopia, sees as queer utopia. ‘Queerness is essentially about the rejection of a here and now and an insistence on potentiality or concrete possibility for another world.’…

—p.78 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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the emancipatory potential of technology

[...] The real emancipatory potential of technology remains unrealised. Fed by the market, its rapid growth is offset by bloat, and elegant innovation is surrendered to the buyer, whose stagnant world it decorates.

As the rate of profit continues to faceplant, capital responds to the declining…

—p.75 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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7 years, 9 months ago

the emancipatory potential of technology

[...] The real emancipatory potential of technology remains unrealised. Fed by the market, its rapid growth is offset by bloat, and elegant innovation is surrendered to the buyer, whose stagnant world it decorates.

As the rate of profit continues to faceplant, capital responds to the declining…

—p.75 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author