I UNDERSTAND THAT I have to get you, the reader, to accept the girl as a condition. As a term, “girl” is polarizing: feared for how tightly it connects youth and desire, reviled for its infantilizing, passivity-inducing properties. On the f…If the position of girl online is involuntary, does that make all of us its victims? Hatred of the girl mistakes girlification for consumer culture itself: the admittedly well-founded paranoia that any remaining selfhood has been scraped ou…
Andrea Long Chu
philosopher · 2 mentions across 1 reading
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Andrea Long Chu is a theorist primarily concerned with gender, desire, and digital culture, particularly how "girlhood" functions as a structural condition rather than an identity in late capitalism. The course readings invoke her work to interrogate how algorithmic and consumer logics produce and exploit feminized subjects online, using the figure of the "girl" to analyze both victimization and complicity in networked systems. Her writing helps frame the ways AI and platform infrastructure don't simply target users but actively constitute gendered forms of subjectivity and selfhood within those systems.
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