ABSTRACT
Chapter 1 introduces the central themes of gender and digital culture, irreconcilability, and the datalogical arguing that these are longstanding issues for feminist scholarship. Tracing a history of feminist scholarship over the past 40 years, the chapter argues that feminism and gender politics have become increasingly irreconcilable with not only long-running debates around representation and embodiment, but also with conceptions of the technological, conceptions of the user and of the systems themselves. These are productive irreconcilabilities which we can use to interrogate the power politics of digital culture.
