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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What can we make of technology? “Serious risks are built into these tools,” and we should be wary of a blind techno-utopianism. The proposal here is different: not necessarily more tech, but new arrangements to “re-engineer the world” in “a positive feedback loop.”pic.twitter.com/N7WHcqybU8
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Future politics must reckon with “a reality crosshatched with fibre-optic cables, radios and microwaves, oil and gas pipelines, aerial and shipping routes, and the unrelenting simultaneous execution of millions of communication protocols with every passing millisecond.”pic.twitter.com/2uUUCqpDpG
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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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Replying to @thewastedworld
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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Replying to @thewastedworld
Looking forward to more notes about what you're reading, really useful.
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Replying to @logotrix
Thank you, it means a lot to hear that 
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