discussion series: That‘s Hot #1 GIRLRAGE

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#1 GIRLRAGE 
Saturday June 22, 2024 
4pm

Participants: Ana Teixeira Pinto & Alex Quicho The internet is easy. Take a selfie, upload a meme, gain followers, repost, own everything. But being a goddess in the rising tides of networked polarisation, data monetization, and libertarian platform CEOs can be boring. Algorithmic patterns on repeat continuously reinforce a caustic hegemonic social order. Platforms relentlessly extract emerging behaviours matching half-formed desires with new markets, extending influence through rapid expansion and dispersion. That’s all so low vibration.

But a girl can plot. With the metrics and logics of the digital long established, she must act under close watch, and her tactical subterfuge needs the many and not the few. That’s Hot celebrates the possibility of a counter-swarm of political sedition and intellectual hostility. 

So, where’s the counter-swarm, and how can we join? In three discursive events over the summer months, That’s Hot, turns to the figure of the girl, mapping out her potential for simultaneous distraction and counter-operations, seeding deceit under thin, glossy layers of veiled naivety. As a symbolic, consumer, and inhuman category [1], how can the girl operate as a networked, decentralised, and oppositional swarm, manoeuvring through, rather than against, the current digital landscape? 

That’s Hot is curated by Jade Barget & Nóra O' Murchú and features Alex Quicho, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Caroline Sinders, Cristina Lu with more to be announced. 

 [1] Everyone is a Girl Online by Alex Quicho: www.wired.com/story/girls-online-culture