Logic Magazine: Intriguing Reads at Intersection of Technology and Life

[jesse_the_k]

Logic is a print-first magazine "with a small digital footprint." (Eventually all content gets online; the most recent is 2017.) The articles are well edited and political in the general sense. I’ve learned a lot browsing their back archive. Two examples from Issue 2 on the theme of Sex:

“Freaks Like Us”: A Conversation with Garth Greenwell on Queerness and the Internet

But what disturbs me most about online cruising, and especially location-based apps like Grindr, is that it seems like a gentrification of cruising. The revolutionary thing about traditional gay cruising is that it is a space that allows for people from radically different backgrounds and classes and categories to come together outside the gaze of any kind of civic authority.

When I think about the kind of people I met cruising in Cherokee Park in Louisville, Kentucky — these were people that everything in my life was organized to keep me from meeting. I think a lot of the radical potential of queerness inheres in its tendency to scramble the usual lines of identification.

https://logicmag.io/sex/garth-greenwell-on-queerness-and-the-internet/

Cracking the Clit by Laura Frost

A new sextech site aspires to solve the “problem” of female sexuality. But why is female sexuality still a problem—and where do its “solutions” come from?

So in stroking virtual vulvas, am I an orgasm warrior storming the barricades under the banner of the sextech revolution? Is sextech a resurgence of feminism through “disrupting” orgasms?

Not exactly. The modern interface and shrewd packaging aren’t the only differences between sextech and second-wave feminism—the politics are different too. Second-wave feminists didn’t just rage against women’s alienation from their bodies, they also clearly identified the culprits: capitalism, patriarchy, and the American legal and medical establishments.

https://logicmag.io/sex/cracking-the-clit/

Comments

[satsuma]

thanks for sharing! those both look like really interesting reads

[firecat]

From "Freaks Like Us":
"I subscribe to the romantic notion of Audre Lorde that the erotic is the force that can enable connections across various kinds of difference."
Oh that is lovely.

From "Cracking the Clit:
"Porn has essentially become a 24/7 X-rated MOOC (Massive Open Online Course)."
And research library!
Thank you I needed that laugh.