RGB: You and Me (A Queer, Feminist Analysis of Emotion, Affect, and Materiality within Google Images)
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2014-07
Authors
Bigelow, Megan
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Fembot Collective
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RGB: You and Me is a visual and textual project based on the intersections of representation, color, popular imagery, hegemony, affect, and the social, situated within Google Image searches and Wikipedia. Drawing upon the work of Luciana Parisi, Robin James, Jamie “Skye” Bianco, and Charles W. Mills, I will argue that these colors and suggested related terms illustrate how technology and images both reify and reinforce dominant ideological norms—through the enmeshment of technologies and bodies—and propose that a queer, feminist, material consideration of these effects within the framework of affect theory has implications for ethical projects and theorizing from spaces such as in-betweens and what Parisi deems ‘incomputables’.
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12 pages
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Bigelow, M. (2014) RGB: You and Me (A Queer, Feminist Analysis of Emotion, Affect, and Materiality Within Google Images). Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, No.5. doi:10.7264/N3TQ5ZTW