what birds give up

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WAIT A MINUTE: This material is strictly the work of one mind: mine. Descriptions and critiques are strictly OPINIONS (this not fact, people). If you want to know about the epithelium collaboration, please visit the official site: epithelium.org.

:: PREVIOUS WORK
Cybersex
   EXPLANATIONS
      What's Epithelium
First Meeting
Website
The Name
Virtual Identity
Virtuality
Beta Site Launch
Concepts
Freewriting
Performance Notes
Script Ideas
Impossible
Net Art
 
  THE SEX SHOW
  Masturbation
Porn & Commodity
Naughty Nurse
Cybersex
 
  PROCEDURES
  The Examination
Screen Shots
Procedures
  Fetish
  Face Projections
 
  CHARACTERS
  Finegan
Sherril
Yiddyalbe
Heather
Thud Nugget
JEM
 
  CLIPS of SHOW
  Porn1 Behind Screen
  Porn2 Naughty Nurse
Porn3 Cybersex
  Doctor1 Steve/SCAR
Doctor2 Cdogg
Doctor3 Mercedez
Doctor4 JEM
Doctor5 Yiddyalbe
Doctor6 Bob
Face Projections
Thud Nugget 01
Thud Nugget 02
Heather
Yiddyalbe
JEM
Ending 01
Ending 02

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Ok. So we finally got over how clever we were and said something worthwhile. Well, actually WE didn’t say anything, Yiddyalbe said it. She described, more or less articulately, virtual desire. As a lesbian who enjoyed cyber-sex with men, she aptly performs (a vulgar version of) nomadic desire. Yiddyalbe undermined and reasserted her identity simultaneously. Repressed fantasy? Maybe. A straight girl in disguise? Never a possibility. Here, the virtual body is transgressive and resistant. It’s a network of chaotic desires that don’t properly root themselves, but don’t self-destruct either. These desires play themselves out as a Nietzschean yes, a positivity, a virtuality. (Oh god, did I just write that? Ok. I don’t really know what I’m talking about… I just get so carried away when we get it right—it almost never happens).

 
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