Socialtheory2008 / Haraway, Donna. Donna Haraway (September 6, 1944 - ) is currently a professor and the chair of the history of consciousness at UC Santa Cruz. In 1985, she wrote an article called "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. " A section of the article from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature deals specifically with Haraway's conception of the cyborg, which becomes her metaphor for the feminist movement and women's experiences. She argues that a cyborg is "a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction... The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism" (Lemert 522 - 23).
The cyborg is shaped by the social reality around it, but is committed to irony, and is free from the confines of the separation of public and private. 1. 2. Technonatures: Environments, Technologies, Spaces, and Places in the Twenty ... Damian F. White is an assistant professor of sociology in the Department of History, Philosophy, and Social Science at the Rhode Island School of Design. He has held academic posts previously at James Madison University and Goldsmith College University of London. He has published articles on the historical relations between human societies and nature, the green industrial revolution, the “production of nature” debate, the libertarian traditions of the political left, and the public understanding of science.
He is the author of Murray Bookchin: A Critical Appraisal (2008) and, with Chris Wilbert, The Colin Ward Reader (forthcoming, 2009). Chris Wilbert is a senior lecturer in tourism and geography at Anglia Ruskin University, England. He has published on animal geographies with Chris Philo (Animal Spaces, Beastly Places, 2000) and with Jennifer Wolch and Jody Emel.
Article Mapping the Margins by Kimblere Crenshaw. Intersectionality. Intersectionality is an important paradigm in academic scholarship and broader contexts such as social justice work or demography, but difficulties arise due to the many complexities involved in making "multidimensional conceptualizations"[3] that explain the way in which socially constructed categories of differentiation interact to create a social hierarchy. For example, intersectionality holds that there is no singular experience of an identity. Rather than understanding men's health solely through the lens of gender, it is necessary to consider other social categories such as class, ability, nation or race, to have a fuller understanding of the range of men's health concerns. Historical background[edit] The movement led by women of color disputed the idea that women were a homogeneous category essentially sharing the same life experiences.
Feminist thought[edit] A Marxist-feminist critical theory[edit] W. Categorical complexity[edit] Anticategorical complexity Intracategorical complexity. Utexaspressjournals. The Oxford Handbook of Feminist Theory. What is Cyberfeminism? | Arielle Cohen. “[Gur-Ze’ev’s] delineates between “soft” and “hard” postmodernism as the principal conduits of thecyberfeminist movement. The former explicitly links the new apertures of cyberfeminism toemancipatory perspectives; whilst advocates of the later regard cyberfeminism as navigating a moreradical and less grounded post-feminist/post-human constitution (Gur-Ze’ev 1999: 438)”.
“Most cyberfeminists appear to be in accord with situating the putative movement beneath the rubricof postmodernist thought (Haraway, 1991; Wilding 1998; Plant, 1996/1997; Volkart 2002),conceiving it, then, as a ‘compelling component of third wave feminism’ (Gillis 2004: 185), which is tosay that cyberfeminism relates to, and practices, ‘a postmodern policy of self-empowerment thatreaches beyond simple principles of liberation and identity’ (Volkart 2002). Here, articulating thestandpoints of Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant assists in outlining the contradictory meanings of cyberfeminism.” WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly - Rethinking Cyberfeminism(s): Race, Gender, and Embodiment. "If you can't slap him, snap him," is the tag line for the website HollaBackNYC ( The site's creators, fed up with everyday harassment by men exposing themselves on New York's streets and subways, encourage women to use their Internet-enabled cell phones to snap photos of harassers and upload them to the site.
This ingenious use of technology is emblematic of an array of new expression of feminist practices called "cyberfeminism. " Among cyberfeminists (Orgad 2005; Plant 1997; Podlas 2000), some have suggested that Internet technologies can be an effective medium for resisting repressive gender regimes and enacting equality, while others have called into question such claims (Gajjala 2003). While drawing on academic disciplines, I also focus rather deliberately on the theoretically informed empirical investigations by sociologists into Internet practices. In their edited volume, Domain Errors! Pro-Ana Websites "Tranny" Hormone Listservs Jessie Daniels 1. 2. 3. Reload: Rethinking Women + Cyberculture - Mary Flanagan, Austin Booth. Most writing on cyberculture is dominated by two almost mutually exclusive visions: the heroic image of the male outlaw hacker and the utopian myth of a gender-free cyberworld. Reload offers an alternative picture of cyberspace as a complex and contradictory place where there is oppression as well as liberation.
It shows how cyberpunk's revolutionary claims conceal its ultimate conservatism on matters of class, gender, and race. The cyberfeminists writing here view cyberculture as a social experiment with an as-yet-unfulfilled potential to create new identities, relationships, and cultures.The book brings together women's cyberfiction--fiction that explores the relationship between people and virtual technologies--and feminist theoretical and critical investigations of gender and technoculture. Engenderings – What was/is cyberfeminism? Part 1. Nicole Shephard is a PhD researcher at the LSE Gender Institute, where she explores the becoming of transnational subjects. In this post, the first of a two-part series, she considers the history and future of cyberfeminism. Follow her on twitter: @kilolo_ The World Wide Web recently celebrated its 20th birthday, commemorating April 30 1993, when this document effectively placed it in the public domain.
For the first time, a wider public was able to access websites, produce content and organise online. One such early instance of online organising was cyberfeminism, a “largely nomadic, spontaneous, and anarchic” (Wilding et al. 1998:47) brand of feminist activism in what was then often called cyberspace. While we might no longer routinely refer to “the net” or “cyberspace” any longer, the WWW’s birthday seems like a fitting moment to think about the history and legacy of cyberfeminism, and this is the first of two posts that attempt to do so. Works cited Schaffer, Kay (1999). An Oral History of the First Cyberfeminists.
In the heady early years of the World Wide Web, four Australian women— Josephine Starrs, Julianne Pierce, Francesca da Rimini and Virginia Barratt—made fierce and funny feminist art under the name VNS Matrix. They were part of a cultural movement called Cyberfeminism, which peaked in the early 1990s and dissipated sometime between the bursting of the dot com bubble and the coming of Y2K. VNS Matrix worked in a wide variety of media: computer games, video installations, events, texts, and billboards. In their iconic “Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century,” they called themselves the “virus of the new world disorder,” and “terminators of the moral codes.” With this irreverent, but keenly political language, they articulated a feminist aesthetic of slimy, unpretty, vigilantly nose-thumbing technological anarchy. They coded. They built websites. They hung out in chat rooms and text-based online communities like LambdaMOO.
VNS Matrix poster, mid 1990s. Still from All New Gen. 030601_Superpatriarchy. Whatever Happened to the Cyborg Manifesto? In 1985, Donna Haraway unveiled ‘The Cyborg Manifesto’, thrilling cultural studies bods, new agers, feminists, and cyberpunks alike with its mix of military, political, laboratory and hippy flavours. Consigning the boundaries between the born and the built to the rubbish dump of history, Haraway’s politics of the information age made waves. But ten years on, has the radical promise of her manifesto been borne out by history?
Maria Fernandez and Suhail Malik think not – for completely opposing reasons. In an era when nearly everything, from small seeds to large computer networks, entails practical or metaphorical organic and machinic fusions, the ‘cyborg’, that product of early Cold War cybernetic theory, and detourned by Haraway a generation later, has lost its political clout. Haraway’s cyborg, “not of woman born”, the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, was modeled upon the ‘meztisaje’ (racial mixing) of Mexican Americans. Maria Fernandez Suhail Malik. The Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium. Devorah Kalekin-Fishman is a senior researcher at the University of Haifa in Israel. Currently a member of the Executive of the International Sociological Association, she is past president of the ISA committee for Alienation Research and Theory. Dr. Kalekin-Fishman is the editor of the International Sociology Review of Books and serves on the editorial boards of Current Sociology, Intercultural Education, and the Mediterranean Journal of Educational Studies.
Recent publications include a critical analysis of Ideology, Policy, and Practice: Education for Immigrants and Minorities in Israel (Kluwer) and an edited volume, Designs for Alienation: Exploring Diverse Realities (Finland: SoPhi Press). Lauren Langman is a professor of sociology at Loyola University of Chicago. He is past chairman of the Marxist Sociology of American Sociological Association and current President of Alienation Research and Theory, of the International Sociological Association. -ect 3 Nick Land | -ect —– a kind of monthly philosophy podcast. -ect presses down hard on the accelerator and hurtles towards our pre-/post-/trans-/in-/non- human future as diagrammed, prophesized and performed by the writings of Nick Land. Experimentally staged between two poles of dis/organisation, our exploration will aim to separate out and dramatise the deterritorialising flows constitutive of the early Land’s philosophical system. We will consider why this ‘Dark Deleuzianism’ from the 90s continues to hold such an intoxicating allure, and how it connects to the contemporary Accelerationist turn.
Readings Land (1992) Fanged Noumena (passion of the cyclone) Land (1992) Circuitries Land (1993) Machinic desire Land (1994) Meltdown Land (1999) Occultures Land (2014) Teleoplexy Further readings Land (1988) Kant, capital and the prohibition of incest Land (1993) Making it with death Land & Plant (1994) Cyberpositive Land (1995) Cyberrevolution Land (1995) meat (or how to kill Oedipus in cyberspace) Land (1999) Barker speaks Land (1995) No future Like this:
“I’d rather be a Cyborg than a Goddess” The Evolution of Alienation: Trauma, Promise, and the Millennium. -ect 3 Nick Land | -ect —– a kind of monthly philosophy podcast. -ect presses down hard on the accelerator and hurtles towards our pre-/post-/trans-/in-/non- human future as diagrammed, prophesized and performed by the writings of Nick Land. Experimentally staged between two poles of dis/organisation, our exploration will aim to separate out and dramatise the deterritorialising flows constitutive of the early Land’s philosophical system. We will consider why this ‘Dark Deleuzianism’ from the 90s continues to hold such an intoxicating allure, and how it connects to the contemporary Accelerationist turn. Readings Land (1992) Fanged Noumena (passion of the cyclone) Land (1992) Circuitries Land (1993) Machinic desire Land (1994) Meltdown Land (1999) Occultures Land (2014) Teleoplexy Further readings Land (1988) Kant, capital and the prohibition of incest Land (1993) Making it with death Land & Plant (1994) Cyberpositive Land (1995) Cyberrevolution Land (1995) meat (or how to kill Oedipus in cyberspace) Land (1999) Barker speaks Land (1995) No future Like this:
-ect 2 Xenofeminism by -ect | Ect. -ect 2 Xenofeminism | -ect —– a kind of monthly philosophy podcast. This month we tinker with the Xenofeminist machine – examining its post-colonial, techno-feminist, trans, queer, cyber-feminist, and accelerationist components. Is it possible to have universality without absolutism? Alienation without oppression? Rationality without patriarchy? And politics without purity? These and other ambitions abound… Readings: Laboria Cuboniks, “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation” (2015)Donna Haraway, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” (1991)Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, “#Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics” (2013) Music: “Di” by Shooga (2012) “Professed Intention and Real Intention” by Chikada “J.J.” Videos: Like this: Like Loading... Whatever Happened to the Cyborg Manifesto?
Sadie Plant & Nick Land / Cyberpositive. Sadie Plant and Nick Land: Catastrophe is the past coming apart. Anastrophe is the future coming together. Seen from within history, divergence is reaching critical proportions. From the matrix, crisis is convergence misinterpreted by mankindThe media are choked with stories about global warming and ozone depletion, HIV and AIDS, plagues of drugs and software viruses, nuclear proliferation, the planetary disintegration of economic management, breakdown of the family, waves of migrants and refugees, subsidence of the nation state into its terminal dementia, societies grated open by the underclass, urban cores in flames, suburbia under threat, fission, schizophrenia, loss of control. No wonder the earth is said to be hurtling into catastrophe. Rotted by digital contagions, modernity is falling to bits. The modern Human Security System might even have appeared with Wiener's subliminal insight that everything cyberpositive is an enemy of mankind.
To what could we wish to return? Gendered Bodies and New Technologies: Rethinking Embodiment in a Cyber-era - Amanda du Preez. Accelerate-Introduction. #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader. It’s a preoccupation of current political debates that while we find ourselves in an era when the forces of capitalism appear all-powerful and unstoppable, the left seems incapable of anything other than a backward-looking nostalgia.
This absence of an inspiring vision of the future has begun to throw up some interesting responses, not least the publication last year of Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek’s ‘Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics’ (MAP), the text at the core of #Accelerate’s engaging, eccentric anthology of feral philosophy, which assembles a sort of historical backstory to what its editors, Alex Williams and Arman Avanessian, term the ‘political heresy’ of ‘accelerationism’. Rather than ‘protest, disrupt or critique capitalism’, they argue, the only radical response is to ‘accelerate its uprooting, alienating, decoding, abstractive tendencies’, while adopting a ‘politically and theoretically progressive attitude towards its constituent elements’.
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