Virile-Reality: From Armageddon to Viagra

As you will no discredit see when my grand project is revealed, Armageddon and Viagra go jointly in hand with viral video collage.  This article, however, turned out to be more about gendered digitality than apocalyptic alarm. 

Quinby is quick to cut in the meme of internet Utopianism, anonymity of users and the idealistic empowerment supposedly inherent in the digital age.  In this judgement, Quinby reminded me of Nakamura, specially with respects to Neoliberal notions of the dogs and gender as related to the network (ie technology erases these problems.  Like Nakamura, Quinby argues that these problems are maintained by technology - and furthered by the exterior assumption that these problems are erased.  Or:  ”it is not the Internet per se that [Quinby is] criticizing but rather the ideological attribute that currently pervades it” in 1999 (1082).  

Quinby outlines three power formations of technoculture: a patriarchal house that utilizes seizure and punishment to dial; one predicated on disciplinary control and reconnaissance compliance; “one that functions through virile-truth’s production of information, which, in keeping with millennialist impulse, tends to be legitimated through appeals to bio-excellence” (1083).  I’m interested in the latter two.  In my jut out I seek to create an multi-direct environment of control (with a built-in disciplinary system), as well as address these concepts through narrative.  As for the latter, I’m remixing the millennialism into a more non-realistic take on armageddon - fear - and attempting to meeting with the viewer and participants/collaborators about the oeuvre of fact.

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