CYBREMONDAY 01-00: The Cybre Manifesto
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Pursuing this question is what cybre theory is all about. It is a queering of conventional cyber discourse to shed light on the personal, the intimate, the community, the many and varied bonds which tie us together through technology outside of pure capitalistic norms. It is also a call to action against those systems and structures which seek to oppress, control, and ultimately erase these bonds from existence.
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CYBREMONDAY 01-01: Cybre Love
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At the same time that our culture tells us that the only love which is valid online is that which fits into its narrow definitions of online dating, the designers of online dating and communication platforms are able to set limits on which forms of love they support and make clear to others that they do not belong. These actions could be the result of active discrimination and refusal of service, but they could just as easily be a consequence of a homogenous development staff which considers lessâmainstream relationship structures to be not important or relevant enough to their work to merit accommodation. It doesn't matterâthe result is the same.
Consequently, it is up to us to resist such simple narratives of cybre relationships and to celebrate love and queer bonding in all of the places that it occurs. We must decentre technological institutions as the determiners of what sorts of relationships are valid and deserve recognition, while at the same time creating technologies of our own for facilitating and accommodating love in all of its forms. Unlike traditional straight relationshipsâwhich, ironically, are catered to onlineâqueer folks oftentimes don't have a choice about using the Internet to find love. Therefore, we must make these relationships our priority when designing, testing, and talking about love online.
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CYBREMONDAY is a casual webzine aimed at elucidating conversations and ideas, questioning existing narratives, and promoting discussion regarding life and culture in (cyber/cybre)space.
