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So 2020 is coming to an end, what have you been reading?
This year what mainly comes to mind is a lot of the Accelerationist and Cyberfeminist works I've been reading, I've been reading more, an analysis of Capital from an Anarchist perspective but it is tbh a bit forgettable.
My List of Works That Struck a Chord With Me:
Ones+Zeros by Sadie Plant- Basically covers the history of women and technology which goes unspoken, as well as how women relate to technology. Touches on how the Capitalist structure seems to rewire humanity to be more "feminized" IE adopt characteristics that were previously the purview of femininity.
Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway- Largely about rejecting carceral definitions of "human", "animal", and "machine" and the need for a new Feminism that recognizes this.
My Words to Victor Frankenstein by Susan Stryker- Really empowering, every trans person but especially trans woman needs to read this. Susan Stryker examines how trans bodies are cast as inhuman and the people who inhabit them as monstruous by the societies they live in, the need to embrace this and become the monsters society makes us. It asks us to take that anger, that rage, and instead of internalizing that hatred of ourselves and allowing it to destroy us as it does many of us, to turn it towards endeavors to undermine and destroy the societies that treat us as such. A very "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Society hasn't apologized for making me one." kinda vibe.
Black Circuit: The Code for the Numbers to Come by Amy Ireland- Basically builds off of Sadie Plant's work and explores the posthuman relationship of woman to machine some more.
Xenofeminist Manifesto by Laboria Cubonix- The takeaway line is that appeals to nature being fallacious and rejections of social structures which seem "natural", "If nature is unjust, change nature."
Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper by Nyx Land- There are better summaries so i'll use those "Taking as her implicit starting point Vincent Garton’s formulation of unconditional acceleration as, roughly speaking, the view that technocapital processes are, and inevitably will continue, accelerating as per Deleuze and Guattari, n1x draws out the implications such acceleration has on the concept of gender. For her, technocapital will “shred” gender as increasingly inhuman forms of autoproduction develop."
The Manifesto of the Futurist Woman by Valentine de Saint Point- A kind of para-Fascist pseudo-Feminist rebuttal to the original Futurist Manifesto rejecting the misogyny in it and calling on women to become warrior mothers. It's an interesting read with a lot of interesting use of language and ideas, even if I disagree with the "war for wars sake" and traditionalist view of maternal femininity.
This year what mainly comes to mind is a lot of the Accelerationist and Cyberfeminist works I've been reading, I've been reading more, an analysis of Capital from an Anarchist perspective but it is tbh a bit forgettable.
My List of Works That Struck a Chord With Me:
Ones+Zeros by Sadie Plant- Basically covers the history of women and technology which goes unspoken, as well as how women relate to technology. Touches on how the Capitalist structure seems to rewire humanity to be more "feminized" IE adopt characteristics that were previously the purview of femininity.
Cyborg Manifesto by Donna Haraway- Largely about rejecting carceral definitions of "human", "animal", and "machine" and the need for a new Feminism that recognizes this.
My Words to Victor Frankenstein by Susan Stryker- Really empowering, every trans person but especially trans woman needs to read this. Susan Stryker examines how trans bodies are cast as inhuman and the people who inhabit them as monstruous by the societies they live in, the need to embrace this and become the monsters society makes us. It asks us to take that anger, that rage, and instead of internalizing that hatred of ourselves and allowing it to destroy us as it does many of us, to turn it towards endeavors to undermine and destroy the societies that treat us as such. A very "Why should I apologize for being a monster? Society hasn't apologized for making me one." kinda vibe.
Black Circuit: The Code for the Numbers to Come by Amy Ireland- Basically builds off of Sadie Plant's work and explores the posthuman relationship of woman to machine some more.
Xenofeminist Manifesto by Laboria Cubonix- The takeaway line is that appeals to nature being fallacious and rejections of social structures which seem "natural", "If nature is unjust, change nature."
Gender Acceleration: A Blackpaper by Nyx Land- There are better summaries so i'll use those "Taking as her implicit starting point Vincent Garton’s formulation of unconditional acceleration as, roughly speaking, the view that technocapital processes are, and inevitably will continue, accelerating as per Deleuze and Guattari, n1x draws out the implications such acceleration has on the concept of gender. For her, technocapital will “shred” gender as increasingly inhuman forms of autoproduction develop."
The Manifesto of the Futurist Woman by Valentine de Saint Point- A kind of para-Fascist pseudo-Feminist rebuttal to the original Futurist Manifesto rejecting the misogyny in it and calling on women to become warrior mothers. It's an interesting read with a lot of interesting use of language and ideas, even if I disagree with the "war for wars sake" and traditionalist view of maternal femininity.