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This pamphlet proposes a critical reading of wearable technologies used in the field of digisexuality. In particular, wearable technologies for sex are analysed by linking them to the question of desire. Applied to sexuality, these technologies cover a rather broad spectrum of functionalities; for this reason, they are examined in order to construct a reflection on the configuration of a series of patterns that increasingly affect the contemporary subject in all aspects of life: measurement, gamification, control and prediction of performance, emotions and time. All these aspects reprogramme the way in which we 'construct' our desire, which in the essay is redefined with the neologism statistical desire, i.e. a form of desire that founds its drive through becoming a number, gamification, predictability and the prediction of the actions we want to perform. To construct this reflection, the proposed essay starts from an archaeological perspective of desire and textiles - the latter seen as wearable proto-devices for desire - to arrive at teledildonics, smart condoms and brain-computer interfaces.
Christian Nirvana Damato is a writer, curator, and independent researcher working in the fields of philosophy, technology, psychoanalysis, and visual culture. He teaches media theory at the European Institute of Design (IED) in Turin and runs various workshops on publishing and writing. He is the founder and editorial director of Inactual. He has also published Medial Disorders. Interpretive and Non-statistical Compendium of Technological Disorders. Vol I, with contributions by Geert Lovink, Alfie Bown, Isabel Millar, Eyal Weizman (Forensic Architecture) et al. (ed. by Inactual, 2024) and Multiplication of Organs Manifesto (Becoming Press, 2025)
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