Very snazzy design on the recent print publication of Laboria Cubonik’s Xenofeminist Manifesto. Notes and thoughts below:pic.twitter.com/9ctShIR3HD
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“Suggestions to pull the lever on the emergency brake of embedded velocities [...] is a possibility available only to the few.” To scale back, to huddle close, is to damn those caught outside. XF expands solidarity universally: “large-scale social change for all our alien kin.”pic.twitter.com/CeVb05ECAH
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But what of the reactive and disheartened state of cyber-culture today? “Valuable platforms for connection, organization, and skill-sharing become clogged” by the “puritanical politics of shame.” A communicative accelerant is caught under the weight of libidinal inhibitors.pic.twitter.com/0XNdIwUrSM
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Against our mired reality, XF looks to the human itself as technology: a libidinal machine capable of engineering new values. Shades of Spinoza seep through: “The task of collective self-mastery requires a hyperstitional manipulation of desire’s puppet-strings.”pic.twitter.com/7wOZD3Fx74
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What is proposed is a leap into a future without solid ground. Yet this is the only true future to speak of, for it is the only “future untethered to the repetition of the present.” Casting off the encrusted residue of our “natural” past, we dive into a future without limits.pic.twitter.com/cFZX2EUQIL
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