“Chthulucene ChoreoSphere” by Megan Beckwith, Kialea Nadine Williams


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    Chthulucene ChoreoSphere

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    The Chthulucene is a post-gender cyborg figure that transforms the idea of physicality, one which is caught between times, living both in the past and the future. Like its Sci-Fi namesake, the Cthulhu, the Chthuluscene is a mixed assemblage of parts, bits, and sections drawn from various human, animal and digital elements. The feminist theorist Donna Haraway extends her ideas of the cyborg in her book Stay-ing with the Trouble, Making Kin in the Chthulucene, and describes the need for a different physicality; as we move into a new period of being, “the Chthulucene reflects a world where the human and nonhuman are inextricably linked in tentacular practices”. The Chthulucene is a hybrid being, and one way we could represent ourselves in a virtual future and how existing in virtual places might impact us physically and emotionally. How will we move and behave in virtual space with little or no perceived limitations and with a body that has extra or even limitless possibilities? This work explores how we may represent our-selves in a virtual future, the boundaries of a hybrid virtual body, and how this informational figure could affect our physicality, sexuality, and perception of self. and how will it behave in a virtual future?

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