TECHNOWRITING, VIRTUAL PERFORMATIVITY AND NORMATIVE HOMOSEXUALITIES IN LA ANSIEDAD. NOVELA TRASH BY DANIEL LINK

Abstract

La ansiedad. Novela trash, a text by Daniel Link published in 2004, proposes a kind of narration without the traditional succession of events or narrative voice, in which the vicissitudes of the characters are given exclusively by emails and chats. The purpose of this article is, therefore, to suggest a reading of the relationships that the text establishes between the writing procedures and the subjectivities linked to the sex-generic and virtuality. This is how the deterritorialization of the conventional notion of the novel generated by intermedia mechanisms and by a fragmentary techno-writing paradoxically coexists with the reterritorialization of identity constructions centered on virtualized bodies and normative homosubjectivities, a framework in which the performativity of sexual identity implies the staging of a repetitive virtual performance that produces the illusion of substantiality, and that updates its power each time it is used. Based on the analysis, the sex dissidence of La ansiedad is proposed not as a disarticulation of identities with respect to the normative, but as a visibility of the constitutive preponderance that technological virtualities acquire as identity conditioning devices and reducing abstraction of the circulations of desire.