Xenofeminism

The online, open-source text, “Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation”, forms the cornerstone of this community discussion. A manifesto espousing an emancipatory strategy that is both a radical departure from and a logical continuation of the work of previous generations of techno- and cyber-feminists, Laboria Cuboniks’ signature text embraces technology’s power to reconfigure gendered relations and rejects the use of nature as a justification for enduring hegemonies of sex and gender. As the manifesto concludes, “if nature is unjust, just change nature!”

Syllabus:

Looking:

• Annika Yi - ‘Force Majeure’ and ‘Lifestyle Wars’ (2017)
• Pierre Huyghe - ‘Untitled (Human Mask)’ (2014)
• Hannah Black + Fever Ray - ‘Plunge’ (2017)
• Juliana Huxtable - ‘A Split of Laughter at the Rally’ (2017)

Reading:

• Laboria Cuboniks - ‘Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation’
• (Bonus) Esmé Hogeveen - ‘Feminisms of the Future, Now: Rethinking Technofeminism and the Manifesto Form’
• (Bonus) Legacy Russell - ‘Digital Dualism and the Glitch Feminism Manifesto’