Ho-kay so I finally found time to read this Sadie Plant interview and while I agreed with many of her points particularly re Cultural Viruses and intelligence and MDMA, I still don’t get the “female future” thing
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I’m not saying that women don’t have a central role in said future, but I’ve always read “the future is female” as “the future is female at the expense of men”...
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...Or better yet “men will be extinct”. Which I could see happening in many future outcomes but in all of those the women would be too
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... and the places in that interview where I think she’s trying to explain this seem hand wavy to me like: “the sense of knowledge is based around the phallic organ” and...
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“a general tendency for more freedom for women... is very much to do with the inhuman”...
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...both of the above statements are spoken as though they’re 100% unassailable facts but they don’t seem particularly intuitive to me. Am I missing something?
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(Probably should have replied to the tweet with the interview, which is here: https://twitter.com/nyxlandunlife/status/998637251998318592?s=21 …)
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He’s a man btw.
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