Everyone has a secret: Closeting and secrecy from Smallville to The Flash, and from shame to algorithmic risk

Autor:	Anne Kustritz
Rok vydání:	2019
Předmět:	050502 law Cognitive science Computer science media_common.quotation_subject 05 social sciences 0507 social and economic geography Representation (systemics) Shame Queer theory Gender Studies Flash (photography) Anthropology Secrecy Encoding (semiotics) 050703 geography 0505 law media_common
Zdroj:	Sexualities. 23:793-809
ISSN:	1461-7382 1363-4607
DOI:	10.1177/1363460719850114
Popis:	This article charts changes in the representation and encoding of superhero closeting metaphors from US television programs Smallville (2001–2011) to The Flash (2014–). Many theorists have noted that superheroes’ hidden secret identities resemble closeting. However, because of legal and social changes in LGBTQ acceptance, as well as intensification of the data-driven security state, closeting on The Flash connects to a fundamentally different set of algorithmic neoliberal social processes. As a result, The Flash portrays a form of post-shame closeting wherein secrecy is a practice of necessary self-defense against mechanized necropolitical violence and social erasure based on unpredictable data markers of risk.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
Externí odkaz:	https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_________::5279951572f21b1a93be1bddcc6ef282 https://doi.org/10.1177/1363460719850114 Zobrazit plný text záznamu