What passes for sovereignty is the ability to disappear. Our latest capitalist dystopia is devoid of innovation but awash in the licensing of intellectual property and goods we can rent but never own. “Unaliving” is a flavorless smoothie blending elements of Foucauldian biopower with Achille Mbembe’s necropolitics its economic base is technofeudalism. #unalivetome is a summoning spell for #unalivebodies #unalivebodies are animated biota circulating across screens #unalivethoughts describes the flat imagination behind the unblinking eyes of #unalivebodies #unaliveawareness is what I am attempting to conjure, a zeitgeist springing like shrapnel from the cultural detonation of the Anthropocene, an unhuman consciousness born from imminent planetary annihilation. I don’t click through but instead project my own interpretations. TikTok has already blocked the hashtag #unalive, but variants proliferate: #unalivetome 32.7k views We used “commit unalive” to distance ourselves from the grimness of his situation. Another pal, a Dungeons & Dragons podcaster, unemployed and uninsured, put me on a list of people to call as he struggled with suicidal ideation. My techno-DJ buddy told me about a gamer streaming on Twitch who used “unalive” instead of “kill” while blowing away digital soldiers. Not the opposite of “liveness,” as in the TV era’s distinction between the prerecorded and the happening-now-we are way past that after two years of nonstop Zoom meetings and streaming performance art from empty theaters-but the sense that life and death, between and after, are more and more the same.Įxperiencing middle age in a scary, then tedious, pandemic, I picked up unalive from millennial and Zoomer informants who transport messages from other generational realms. The death drive merges with the life instinct to create a new condition: unaliving. Algospeak neologisms are coined to avoid AI censorship sublimation produces a new sign.
Jack Smith and unknown participant.Ī REDDIT USER POSTS, “My mom told me to unalive myself because I am gay.” The thread responds (and I paraphrase, slightly): “Your egg donor sucks and doesn’t deserve the term ‘mom.’” To unalive yourself is to allow the forces of oppression to remove you from life.
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