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The queer times of internet infrastructures and digital systems

Cockayne, D.G.; Richardson, L.

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Authors

D.G. Cockayne

L. Richardson



Contributors

C.J. Nash
Editor

A. Gorman-Murray
Editor

Abstract

This chapter examines the queer temporalities of the internet. Our starting point is that space cannot be adequately theorised without reference to time. Geographers have theorised the spatial structure of internet infrastructures, but they have paid less attention to the temporal structure of these systems. Contemporary queer theory provides analyses of temporality as a critique of the heteronormative-reproductive times of state-capitalism, which also characterise imaginaries of digital systems. Instead of the internet as a necessarily futuristic invention, we demonstrate the necessity of thinking through the concrete histories and embodied presents of the internet. We first conceptualise internet infrastructures as historical anachronism—evidence of the continuing inequalities of colonialism. Then we examine how queer presence online can lend itself to a troubling of modern temporalities.

Citation

Cockayne, D., & Richardson, L. (2019). The queer times of internet infrastructures and digital systems. In C. Nash, & A. Gorman-Murray (Eds.), Interfaced lives, interwoven worlds : geographies of sexualities in the digital age (11-27). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6876-9_2

Online Publication Date May 23, 2019
Publication Date 2019
Deposit Date May 31, 2018
Publicly Available Date May 23, 2020
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Pages 11-27
Book Title Interfaced lives, interwoven worlds : geographies of sexualities in the digital age.
ISBN 9789811368752
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6876-9_2
Public URL https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1659563
Contract Date May 31, 2018

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Cockayne, D. G. & Richardson, L. (2019). The queer times of internet infrastructures and digital systems. In The geographies of digital sexuality. Nash, C. J. & Gorman-Murray, A. © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019. 11-27 reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan. This extract is taken from the author's original manuscript and has not been edited. The definitive, published, version of record is available here: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6876-9_2






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