D.G. Cockayne
The queer times of internet infrastructures and digital systems
Cockayne, D.G.; Richardson, L.
Authors
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 |
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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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