#mckenzie wark

"The protagonists of both Chubz and Red Tory take advantage of the peculiar types of (not always equitable) inter-class contact that exist within gay life. There are always people slipping between classes based on sexual desirability, based on a sort of class subterfuge. The ruling class is always, and has always been, full of camouflaged gays dressing up their accents and adopting graces, while every gay party has some middle-class gay in a tracksuit and playing up his northern accent or trade unionist grandfather in order to suggest he’s ‘prolier than thou.’ London has a whole genre of club nights, sex parties and porn dedicated to the image of ‘the scally,’ the stereotypical hetero-ish working class council estate lad, and they’re populated 90% by roleplaying college grads. This is part of the sexual tension of a nation tongue tied about sex and class."

"Every relation of a body to another body is mediated. Being any kind of body at all, of any sex, cis or trans, involves the third sex of the machinic. But, perhaps, there are better technics via which to relate to other bodies and, via other bodies, to perceive one’s body schema and, having perceived it, to make it pretty. It’s why I prefer the rave to the internet. At least for a while, it gets us off our phones and puts our bodies in relation, pulsed by the sub-bass. Becoming cannot avoid the risk of death. The arrested development of the perpetual egg reproduces the sameness of that which is only ever a possibility. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. The pretty things emerge into the world to challenge it: to be forms without norms and not without a struggle."