The xenofeminist manifesto : a politics for alienation

by Laboria Cuboniks

Paper Book, 2018

Status

Checked out

Publication

Brooklyn : Verso, 2018.

Description

"The real emancipatory potential of technology remains unrealised The Xenofeminist Manifesto calls for the scaling up of feminism. Contemporary feminism, it contends, is limited by its predominant investment in local and micropolitical action. What is needed is a feminism capable of systemic intervention. The Xenofeminist Manifesto propose that such a feminism must start from a new universal--one no longer coded as cis, straight, white, and male--with Xenofeminism as its theoretical and technological platform. Drawing on queer and transfeminist theory, as well as philosophical rationalism, against nature and biological essentialism, the feminist collective Laboria Cuboniks instead invest in alienation and the anti-natural, in seizing technology and in embracing the desire for an alien future. "If nature is unjust, change nature!""--"This is a very short feminist manifesto, written by the collective Laboria Cuboniks. This is an anti-humanist, materialist, accelerationist manifesto originally published online at laboriacuboniks.net"--… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member susanbooks
This is a beautiful book as an object: thick paper, bold colors, imaginative and surprising collages. The text, though, is woefully thin, articulating less a manifesto than a vague definition of xenofemism. There are echoes here of Paul Virilio, Wendy Brown, Donna Harraway, Judith Butler but no
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footnotes, no bibliography, so it seems as if these vague ideas sort of fell into place all at once. It's a playful book, I suppose, and pretty, but ultimately not very useful.
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LibraryThing member adaorhell
This is strange to say but I wish it was not illustrated. It is like too confusing with all the images to read clearly. But very thought provoking and interesting.

Language

ISBN

9781788731577

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feminisms
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