#GLITCHFEMINISM
Glitch Feminism: A Manifesto
was published by Verso Books in September 2020.
The book has been heralded as one of the "best art books of 2020" by The New York Times, "spellbinding" by Artforum, and a "groundbreaking text" by Forbes.
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ABOUT GLITCH FEMINISM
In 2013, I coined the term Glitch Feminism and began producing scholarship surrounding this socio-techno construct of gender and sexuality.
First published as an item for The Society Pages, and then later expanded upon in a commission for Rhizome, The Glitch Feminist Manifesto observes:
"In a society that conditions the public to find discomfort or outright fear in the errors and malfunctions of our socio-cultural mechanics—illicitly and implicitly encouraging an ethos of “Don’t rock the boat!”—a “glitch” becomes an apt metonym. Glitch Feminism, however, embraces the causality of “error”, and turns the gloomy implication of glitch on its ear by acknowledging that an error in a social system that has already been disturbed by economic, racial, social, sexual, and cultural stratification and the imperialist wrecking-ball of globalization—processes that continue to enact violence on all bodies—may not, in fact, be an error at all, but rather a much-needed erratum. This glitch is a correction to the “machine”, and, in turn, a positive departure." (L. Russell, The Society Pages, 2013)
To read more about Glitch Feminism, please refer to the articles embedded in the publication titles above.
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My “Glitch Feminism Manifesto” was first published in 2013, commissioned by digital theorist Nathan Jurgenson for The Society Pages, and then later expanded into a short essay as a commission for new media art publication Rhizome. In the spring of 2013 my paper on Glitch Feminism was accepted into University of Sussex’s “Queer Feminist Social Media Praxis Symposium” and in the fall of 2013 my paper was also accepted into University of Surrey's “Corporeal Computing: A Performative Archaeology of Digital Gesture” conference. Since then Glitch Feminism has gone viral, included in feminist art history syllabi at a variety of institutions such as The Cortauld Institute of Art (UK), The Royal Academy (UK), Evergreen State College (US), University of California at Santa Cruz (US), and beyond. It has also been included in publications and productions put forward by Res. (UK), Kingston University (UK), The Photographers’ Gallery (UK), Stockholm University (SW) University of Massachusetts Amherst (US), Boston University (US), McGill University (Canada), and more. I've lectured and participated in panels speaking on Glitch Feminism at the “Theorizing the Web” conference in New York City (2015); the Institute of Contemporary Art in London (2015); Arcadia University (2017); Castlefield Gallery (2017), London School of Economics (2017), Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (2018), and more.
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On #GLITCHFEMINISM and The Glitch Feminism Manifesto
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I have had the honour of speaking at several universities and conferences regarding this topic. Please see below for select videos of some of my presentations.
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This conversation is ongoing; it's been wonderful to see Glitch Feminism become part of a larger academic dialogue internationally. If you would like to join the discussion, please do not hesitate to contact me directly. If you have relevant links or articles to share that integrate Glitch Feminism, please feel free to Tweet @legacyrussell using the hashtag #GLITCHFEMINISM.
Many thanks.
Listen to GLITCH SHORTS @ ICA London
IMAGE CREDIT: Legacy Russell, Screen still from “#GLITCHFEMINISM”, Video Essay, 2018.
