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I Do Not Identify As

from Red Threads by Bourgeois Speedball

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Digitized, speculative capital has made the production of identity a central site of value extraction. If at one point the notion of ‘selfhood as art’ had revolutionary vectors, it has now become a business plan and marketing strategy through platforms like instagram, Facebook, snapchat, and so on. In particular, these platforms have worked to recuperate queer, gay, lesbian and trans revolutionary vectors into the liberal bourgeois frame. The fact that the fashioning of one’s self has been monetized and co-opted by capital to the point where identities once thought to be fundamentally hostile to it can be easily subsumed suggests a need for an alternative logic of subjectivity that begins in the negative: i do not identify as. I am uncountable. I am unmanageable. We follow this line of flight through sampling Beatriz Preciado’s critique of the heteronormative logic of identity that reduces the body and its sociality to its genitals.

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from Red Threads, released September 7, 2016
Beatriz Preciado

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Bourgeois Speedball Oakland, California

Bourgeois Speedball lives in ruins. Sculpting compositions from crumbling synthesizers, samplers, and the soundscapes of Bay Area rebellions, Bourgeois Speedball organizes sound within the decaying oikos of globalized neoliberalism.

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