In Italy in 1980 a series of reflections on sexuality and identity created a seminal network embracing several individuals and groups who propose their bodies so that it can be used within critical territories, journeys beyond boundaries and out of rigid and constraining mental frames. Under such a perspective, sexuality becomes an open, playful and radical code of communication, no longer based on woman-man gender confrontation, but an expression of flexible and floating identity, manifested in the complex connections of networks. In emulating the hacker, combining and recombining hard- and soft-ware into more critical and all-encompassing technologically queer digital communities, with gender activists subverting rigid cultural paradigms and creating new in-between cultural zones – a collaborative cutup, or cultural collage, combines hacker ethics, political activism and independent (sexual) culture.
