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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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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All well and good to leap into the future without solid ground, but if the actual material ground of your discourse is literally burning, melting, flooding and exploding - it's hard to sustain the speculative stance. Do ecco politics enter in to the discussion?
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Disappointingly little. There’s one reference to “environmental catastrophe” (0x03), but nothing rigorous. Although there are also implicit references to Haraway’s kin-making, which I understand gets expanded upon in Helen Hester’s “Xenofeminism” (2018).
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Actually, I don’t want to be unfair: with all the talk of universal & alien kinship, I wouldn’t consider the book anti-ecological. Despite the vertiginous thrill of destruction, this isn’t a rehash of the Futurists — for XF any worthwhile future must be one of common flourishing.
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