London-based drag queen ShayShay’s lip-sync performance of Björk’s ‘Mutual Core’ presents an incisive commentary on both the empowering and pernicious effects of technology on the modern-day subject. Within this performance, ShayShay explores the double-bind of materialistic discourses, namely that of the cyborg and the posthuman, through capitalising on the inherent technological mediations of lip-syncing. Through the use of both an iPhone and an iPad in performance to lip-sync in place of them, ShayShay extends the typical technological mediations of lip-syncing and highlights the ubiquity of technology in modern-day life. By first analysing this performance through both Donna Haraway’s cyborg theory and Rosi Braidotti’s posthumanism, I come to a reading of the performance that offers an empowering message, one that, through the distributed agency of the performance, rallies against hegemonic Humanist dicta. In the second instance, however, I draw on ethnographic material conducted with ShayShay to generate an analysis that exposes the deleterious effects technology, in particular its relationship to social media, has on the twenty-first-century subject. These twin analyses evidence the double-bind in which ShayShay finds themself.

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赛博格女王：ShayShay 的“共同核心”中的假唱和后人类主义

伦敦变装皇后 ShayShay 对 Björk 的“Mutual Core”的假唱表演对技术对现代主题的赋权和有害影响进行了精辟的评论。在这场表演中，ShayShay 探索了唯物主义话语的双重束缚，即赛博格和后人类，通过利用假唱的固有技术中介。通过在表演中同时使用 iPhone 和 iPad 来代替口形同步，ShayShay 扩展了口形同步的典型技术中介，并突出了现代生活中无处不在的技术。首先通过 Donna Haraway 的机器人理论和 Rosi Braidotti 的后人类主义来分析这场表演，我开始阅读表演，它提供了一种赋予权力的信息，一个，通过表演的分布式代理，集会反对霸权的人文主义格言。然而，在第二种情况下，我利用与 ShayShay 进行的人种学材料进行分析，揭示技术对 21 世纪主题的有害影响，特别是其与社交媒体的关系。这些双胞胎分析证明了 ShayShay 发现自己的双重束缚。