ABSTRACT
Detroit’s underground electronic music scene presented itself to the author encounters in the cybernetic closet. The affair began with chatting about mutual interests, then sharing tracks online, then meeting new people to experience the sounds together in unfamiliar living rooms. Raves were occasions to materialize experimental selves that were already thriving in the digital underground. Over time, some of the author cybernetically-established connections would grow into kinship relations rooted in affinity. Always informed by activities in the cybernetic closet, always creative and critical of the gaze, the author continues to try to adapt strategies of self-presentation as their own experimental forms of resistance.
