Becoming Spectral Phantasmagorias of Late Capitalism and Trans Desubjectivity in Hyper-pop
Abstract Often defined by its characteristic and heavy use of autotuned vocals, the microgenre hyper-pop is perhaps just as recognizable for the ubiquitous transness of its most important artists. Reading trans hyper-pop performers Blackwinterwells, laura les, and quinn's uses of the figure of the “bedsheet ghost,” this article explores trans artists’ responses to late capitalism's regimes of alienation as a means of desubjectivization through strategies of becoming spectral—resisting commodification through a spectral orientation toward their sonic corporeality
Article, 2024
TSQ, 11, 20240501, 370
2024