Notes for Cyborg Manifesto Theresa M. Senft's reading notes for Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto" Below, I attempt to articulate the major ideas of Donna Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto" for my own pedagogical purposes. The correct citation for the text I am using is: Haraway, Donna. After a quick Background Information essay, my reading notes follow the section headings in Haraway's original essay. If you wish to cite this material, the correct citation is: Senft, Theresa M. I am interested in your thoughts and additional links for these reading notes. You can jump to any of the following sections, now: Background Information on Donna Haraway and the Manifesto. Background Information on Haraway and her Manifesto. Donna Haraway's academic training is as a biologist and philosopher, and her political affiliations are those of a socialist feminist. To a large degree Haraway's Manifesto was an address to the radical feminist movement which gained popularity in the 1970's and 1980's in the United States and Europe.
Women’s History in the Digital World 2015 | Educating Women It seems unbelievable to me that just two weeks ago, many of us were sitting together in Bryn Mawr’s Thomas Library for the second Women’s History in the Digital World conference. As the conference organizer, I watched May 21 and 22 rush by in a blur of nametags, registration lists, sign-making (did anyone not get lost in Thomas?), and friends and colleagues, old and new. With close to 4,000 #WHDigWrld15 tweets to look back on — we’re a prolific bunch, we women’s historians — I’ve since been able to catch up on your conversations from nearly every one of the nineteen concurrent sessions, the keynote address, and the digital showcase. Photograph by Kate McCann for Bryn Mawr College Communications. For those of you who attended the 2015 conference, Greenfield Assistant Director Evan McGonagill and I are hoping to use some momentum to look ahead at how we might continue to serve as a venue for supporting research, and we’d be grateful for any feedback you’d like to share. Hungry for more?
#ACCELERATE MANIFESTO for an Accelerationist Politics Accelerationism pushes towards a future that is more modern, an alternative modernity that neoliberalism is inherently unable to generate. 01. INTRODUCTION: On the Conjuncture 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 02. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Socialism is inconceivable without large-scale capitalist engineering based on the latest discoveries of modern science. 7. 03: MANIFEST: On the Future 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23.
Whence Feminism? Assessing Feminist Interventions in Digital Literary Archives Abstract This essay is a meditation on the possibility of a feminist assessment of digital literary archives and the interdisciplinary tools needed to do such work. Using the Women Writers Project and The Orlando Project as exemplary instances of digital literary scholarship, I discuss possible sites of feminist intervention (content, technological politics, labor structures,etc) and the kinds of theoretical paradigms one might use in such work. Drawing on recent work in technology studies and feminist theory, the essay problematizes simplistic celebratory claims and troubles the idea that simply saving women’s work in digital form is enough. In 2011, I presented a paper titled "Encoding Women: Are Digital Archives Feminist?" Over the course of a couple of years now, I’ve worked to find a methodology that would allow me to answer the question that motivated that 2011 paper — can we describe digital archives as feminist? Works Cited Beck 1998 Beck, Debra Baker. Booth 2008 Booth, Alison.
Sunny Lemoine Donna Haraway attempts to construct a basis for collective consciousness by mapping vibrant parallels between the structure of current economic and technological practices and human actors' fictional capability to comprehend and interact with a changing ideological structure. Elements of her argument can be traced to her role as a theorist working in the established traditions of feminism and socialism. I believe it is her commitment to an ongoing dialogue with other feminists that provides the impetus for her denunciation of a future entrenched in the teleology of traditional Western myths. Her critique of arguments which depend on the image of the female as part of a splintered and idealized other which awaits ultimate reunification leads her to name the cyborg as a potent conceptual bastard of white humanism. The cyborg is central, both to her own thesis and to those attempting to schematize her argument.
Marx's 'Capital' Philosophy and Political Economy Marx's ‘Capital’, Philosophy and Political Economy by Geoffrey Pilling 1980 When therefore Galiani says: Value is a relation between persons ... he ought to have added: a relation between persons expressed as a relation between things. (I, p. 74) In his important book Essays on Marx’s Theory of Value, I. I. Rubin draws attention to the fact that ‘Marx’s theory of commodity fetishism has not occupied the place which is proper to it in the Marxist economic system’ (1972, p. 5).[1] As he observes, many writers have failed to grasp the relationship of this notion to Marx’s critique of political economy – it has, he says, often been regarded as a ‘brilliant sociological generalization, a theory and critique of all contemporary culture based on the reification of human relations’. Fetishism and social being The worker puts his life into the object; but now his life no longer belongs to him but to the object. Referring to the Middle Ages, Marx notes that: Disappearance of fetishism Notes
Ernest Mandel: Karl Marx (Chap.4) MIA > Archive > Mandel > Karl Marx IV. Marx’s Labour Theory of Value As an economist, Marx is generally situated in the continuity of the great classical school of Adam Smith and Ricardo. Marx inherited the labour theory of value from the classical school. Value is therefore essentially a social, objective and historically relative category, It is social because it is determined by the overall result of the fluctuating efforts of each individual producer (under capitalism: of each individual firm or factory). This does not imply that Marx’s concept of value is in any way completely detached from consumption. The ‘law of value’ is but Marx’s version of Adam Smith’s ‘invisible hand’. Marx’s critique of the ‘invisible hand’ concept does not dwell essentially on the analysis of how a market economy actually operates. Marx himself never extensively dwelled on this solution of the so-called reduction problem. But under the capitalist mode of production, this is no longer the case. Next Chapter
Invisible hand In economics, the invisible hand is a metaphor used by Adam Smith to describe unintended social benefits resulting from individual actions. The phrase is employed by Smith with respect to income distribution (1759) and production (1776). The exact phrase is used just three times in Smith's writings, but has come to capture his notion that individuals' efforts to pursue their own interest may frequently benefit society more than if their actions were directly intending to benefit society. He first introduced the concept in The Theory of Moral Sentiments, written in 1759, invoking it in reference to income distribution. The idea of trade and market exchange automatically channeling self-interest toward socially desirable ends is a central justification for the laissez-faire economic philosophy, which lies behind neoclassical economics.[3] In this sense, the central disagreement between economic ideologies can be viewed as a disagreement about how powerful the "invisible hand" is. [edit]
amazon.co Review A compelling, demanding and often entertaining discussion of the extensive cultural implications of 'fetishism'! littered with fascinating photographic imagery ! an important contribution to contemporary cultural theory and, more specifically, to the ever growing field of post-human thought ... this work provides fascinating insights into an oft-ignored aspect of human behaviour and culture. The combination of succinct close reading of accessible texts with information gained in interviews and via observation at venues not usually frequented by academics, such as fetish clubs and dungeons is one of the strengths of Fernbach's analysis. About the Author Amanda Fernbach recently received her doctorate in English at the University of New South Wales, Australia and now lives in New York.
After Accelerationism: The Xenofeminist Manifesto - &&& Journal&&& Journal It has arrived! The Laboria Cuboniks collective have just released their highly-anticipated manifesto, Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation, via their Twitter account. Already, it is being lauded by cultural critics such as Mark Fisher for “definitively grasp[ing] feminism back from the… hands of the moralising-spiteful petit-bourgeoisie,” and as indicative of “a new counterculture [that] is emerging from the shadows.” Rejecting originary authenticity, affirming technological alienation, and regrounding left accelerationism in its cyberfeminist antecedents, the xenofeminists have unleashed an alien storm system, one from which terrestrial subjectivities will not emerge unaltered. From XFM “Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist… Let a hundred sexes bloom! Additional Resources Armen Avanessian and Helen Hester, w/ Rosi Braidotti, Shulamith Firestone, Donna Haraway, Laboria Cuboniks, Lisa Nakamura, Alexandra Pirici, Nina Power, Paul B. Laboria Cuboniks, Towards Xenofeminism.
The Science Question in Feminism Winner of the 1987 Jessie Bernard Award (American Sociological Association)A 1987 Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Title" Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific enterprise, Sandra Harding pursues that question, challenging the intellectual and social foundations of scientific thought. Harding provides the first comprehensive and critical survey of the feminist science critiques, and examines inquiries into the androcentricism that has endured since the birth of modern science. Feminist technoscience Transdisciplinary branch of science studies Feminist technoscience is a transdisciplinary branch of science studies which emerged from decades of feminist critique on the way gender and other identity markers are entangled in the combined fields of science and technology.[1] The term technoscience, especially in regard to the field of feminist technoscience studies, seeks to remove the distinction between scientific research and development with applied applications of technology while assuming science is entwined with the common interests of society.[2] As a result, science is suggested to be held to the same level of political and ethical accountability as the technologies which develop from it.[1] Feminist technoscience studies continue to develop new theories on how politics of gender and other identity markers are interconnected to resulting processes of technical change, and power relations of the globalized, material world.[3] Feminist technologies and technoscience studies [edit]
Cornelia Sollfrank Cornelia Sollfrank (born 1960, in Feilershammer, Germany) is an artist who pioneered into the digital realm and Cyberfeminism in the 1990s. Life and work[edit] In 1997 she participated in a net art competition titled Extension organized by the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Hamburg Art Museum in Germany. Her Work titled "Female Extension" was linked to Cyberfeminism and was aimed to prove that male artists where favored in this genre. Cornelia Sollfrank founded the organization Old Boys Network (OBN)[1] along with artist groups 'frauen-und-technik' (Women and Technique) and '-Innen' ("Inside",[2] but also a suffix for feminin plurals[3]). OBN published First Cyberfeminist International in 1998 followed by next Cyberfeminist International in 1999. In 2004 Cornelia Sollfrank's monograph titled "net.art generator" was published by Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg.[5] References[edit] External links[edit]
Technofetishism and the Uncanny Desires of A.S.F.R. (alt.sex.fetish.robots) on JSTOR Science Fiction Studies Description: Science Fiction Studies is a refereed scholarly journal devoted to the study of the genre of science fiction, broadly defined. It publishes articles about science fiction and book reviews on science fiction criticism; it does not publish fiction.