Platforms of assemblages and strange new kinships
An exploratory analysis of three cyberfeminist manifestos from a posthumanist perspective
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https://doi.org/10.24215/23143924e092Keywords:
Cyberfeminism, transfeminism, political manifestos, post-humanism, trans-humanismAbstract
How are conversations about cyberfeminism and transfeminism linked, and what has been their contribution to critical thinking in general and speculative feminism in particular?
It explores the conceptual bridges between three important cyberfeminist political manifestos that originated at very different moments in the digital age: Donna Haraway's Manifesto for Cyborgs (1985), Paul B. Preciado's Contrasexual Manifesto (2000) and Manifesto for Cyborgs (2000). Preciado and Manifesto for Cyborgs (2000). Preciado (2000); and the Xenofeminist Manifesto of the Laboria Cuboniks collective (2015).
Four dimensions are analyzed: i) technology and strategies for its refunctionalization/social reappropriation; ii) the body and its assemblages; iii) kinship and political alliances; and iv) feminism and revolution.
Four exploratory hypotheses are put forward: 1) As the manifestos are milestones in a genealogy of cyberfeminism and transfeminism, they present a special epistemic richness in an intersectional key due to their potential to dismantle the matrix of binary thinking; 2) Each manifesto proposes an assemblage of hitherto strictly binary categories: between human and machine; between nature and technology; and between the local and the global; and 3) Each manifesto deploys a strategy of re-appropriation/technosocial re-functionalization of certain cybernetic technologies, which are critical both for their technical functionality and their political spectrality: respectively, the cyborg, the dildo/prosthesis duo, and the platform/protocol/meme trio; and 4) Insofar as these technologies in each manifesto are described as complex sociotechnical systems and at the same time stylized as technofeminist myths that merge theory and praxis, their dissident and strategic uses entail rebellious epistemic and political practices that nurture speculative thinking in a feminist key.
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