Zach Blas, an artist interested in tactics that "disrupt the transformation of subjects into categorizable objects of Western knowledge"
"informational opacity" and "contra-Internet activity"
Kienle 223: Blas is interested in "networking that evades surveillance, escapes authoritarian and corporate control, and [...] may be useful in exposing a 'political horizon of transformation beyond the Internet'"
Blas examines "the ways in which standard privatized networking forecloses the possibility of radical transformation because it is dependent on institutions that commodify identity and interactions to maintain the status quo, whereas contact [emphasis added] depends on openness, precarity, and alterity that unleashes the radical potentiality of marginalized pleasures. Whereas [other critics] see little potential in networking, Blas asks, what if networks were hijacked to generate contact?" (Kienle's summary 223-4; see Blas' "The Jublilee of 2033" in GLQ, special "Queer Commons" issue, 2018)
put another way: for Blas, "the queerness of this activity lies in how it injects contact into connectivity"