Trans-forming Videogames: Speedrunning, Trans Desire, and Embodied Glitches with Dr. Madison Schmalzer
Event Description:
Videogames are powerful tools for imagining new futures. In this talk, Madison Schmalzer explores the potential for articulating and embodying trans subjectivities through "trans play," in particular focusing on speedrunning: the practice of playing videogames as fast as possible. She will show how the communal and individual labor that produces speedrunning also indexes desires and orientations towards technology that center social and technological glitches which have the power to short circuit the technologies around us, allowing for new technological subjectivities to unfold.
