GIRLSTACK
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Description
Building on the ideas of Tiqqunâs 1999 anti-neoliberal treatise Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl, Andrea Long Chuâs Females and Bogna Koniorâs work on the girl and the inhuman vis-a-vis the machinic, Quicho has developed a concept she calls the âGirlstack,â which, to borrow her words, models the âultrasmooth, cybergothic, and angelic dimensions of the girlâs natural habitat.â Quicho articulates how the âgirlâ inhabits no one person, body, or gender. She is a technology of subjectivity composed of symbolic, consumer, and inhuman elements and might be our only way out of the platform trap. Quicho's reformulation of 'the stack' was first published as an essay on Wired and expanded at BODYSTACK and Creamcake 3HD.
Reflection
Quichoâs girl-stack is a speculative prototype models themany dimensions of the girlâs natural online habitat. To be clear: Quicho does not speak of actual girls or the experience of lived girlhood, but a socially constructed ideation of the girl. So, the girl as a vehicle for selling product, the girl as a tool for manipulating entrenched power, the girl as living currency, and the girl as desiring machine. The model is imperative for understanding the environment that produces the âgirl as conditionâ.
External references
Wired essay, New Models Podcast, BODYSTACK Summit
Added on
23.11.24