#4306. Queering digital media spatiality: a phenomenology of bodies being stopped

September 2026publication date
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Visual Arts and Performing Arts;
Gender Studies;
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Abstract:
How are we to understand the politics of location in our “hyper-space-biased” time of digital existence? This article revisits the debate on media and spatiality through the lens of critical phenomenology and argues for the need to recognize multiple forms of embodiment in mediaspace. With support from a case study on queer digital media use in Russia, it takes the socially circumscribed subject as its strategic starting point for understanding digital media space. By doing so, it argues that often referred to as tropes of a “seamless medialife” are not only simplifying things, but can easily become normative. In digital existence, some bodies and mobilities are quite literally stopped, and we cannot conflate how flesh travels and occupies space with how we might occupy and travel in code. In order to develop my argument, I will put media phenomenology in dialogue with queer phenomenology, but also hint at how we may take our cue from the field of existential media studies to further this debate on vulnerabilities and technology.
Keywords:
digital existence; media phenomenology; mobility; Queer; space and place

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