Rogueish

The other interesting thing about Vorticist Britney Spears was the experience of spending an afternoon making the macros. When the connection between Britney and vorticism occurred to me, I looked through BLAST for quotes and through Britney fan sites for pictures and then started trying to fit the text on the pictures. This meant trying to find an aesthetically pleasing arrangement of text in an image the composition of which was usually determined by the curves of Britney’s body; that is, it involved an odd sort of typographic eroticism. And a rather dubious sort of eroticism it is, too, as it involves me actively arranging meanings around a passive and mute young woman. This dubiousness is appropriate in a way, though, as the Britney/Vorticism connection lies in the relation between modernism, industrialism, and populism, which is not necessarily a combination that has been especially pleasant for the women caught up in it.