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- <title> Ici THK — Cyberfeminism </title>
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- <h1> <a href="index.html">Ici THK</a> </h1>
- <h2> Subrosa </h2>
- <h3> Cyberfeminism</h3>
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- <main>
- <article>
- <aside>
- <section id="author">
- <h2>About the Author</h2>
- <p>Subrosa is a collective of cyberfeminists artists and
- researchers, critically dealing with issues about
- technology and the body. <a href="https://cyberfeminism.net">https://cyberfeminism.net</a></p>
- </section>
- <section id="sources">
- <h2>Sources</h2>
- <p><a href="assets/BookChapt_TacticalBiopolitics_subRosa.pdf">SubRosa Tactical Biopolitics</a>, chapter 14, pp.221-242 (Subrosa, 1999)</p>
- </section>
- </aside>
- <section id="exploitation">
- <h2> Common Knowledge and Political Love</h2>
-
- <p>Under capitalism, femininity and gender roles became a
- “labor” function, and women became a “labor class.” On
- one hand, women’s bodies and labor are revered and
- exploited as a “natural” resource, a biocommons or
- commonwealth that is fundamental to maintaining and
- continuing life: women are equated with “the lands,”
- “mother-earth,” or “the homelands.” On the other hand,
- women’s sexual and reproductive labor—motherhood,
- pregnancy, childbirth—is economically devalued and
- socially degraded. In the Biotech Century, women’s bodies
- have become flesh labs and Pharma-commons: They are
- minedfor eggs, embryonic tissues, and stem cells for use
- in medical, and therapeutic experiments, and are employed
- as gestational wombs in assisted reproductive
- technologies (ART). Under such conditions, resistant
- feminist discourses of the “body” emerge as an explicitly
- biopolitical practice.</p>
- </section>
- <section id="primitive-accumulation">
- <h2>Primitive Accumulation</h2>
- <p>Human and animal bodies have been the most valuable
- commodity in human culture since primitive accumulation
- began. It follows, then, that bodies are also primary
- sites of sovereignty, resistance, and contestation. In
- this chapter, subRosa begins by tracing a brief history
- of lay or “common” medical, and healing practices that
- posed an embodied resistance to religious, medical, and
- capitalist control of gendered bodies, reproduction, and
- medical practices—and connects them to current social
- struggles to create accessible and just public
- health-care systems, biopolitical autonomy, and knowledge
- in common. Researching and learning from these histories
- is fundamental to subRosa’s cultural practice.</p>
- </section>
- <section id="resistance">
- <h2>Resistance</h2>
- <p>Historically, women’s bodies have been notoriously
- resistant to machine adaptation or medical regulation.
- The unpredictable ebb and flow of menstrual cycles,
- hormones, moods, libido, weight loss or gain, metabolism,
- ovulation, pregnancy, gestation period, fertility, and
- natural birth rhythms, have severely tested scientific
- control and management methods.</p>
- </section>
- <section id="detournement">
- <h2>Detournement</h2>
- <p>SmartMom is a detournement (a tactic used by the
- situationists to change original meanings of texts or
- images) of the concept of the Defense Advanced Research
- Project Agency’s (DARPA) Smart T-Shirt technology, and
- the cyborg engineering of the body for space travel, as
- described in Manfred Clynes and Nathan Cline’s article
- “Cyborgs and Space.” SmartMom satirically proposes a
- civilian adaptation of the technology of the Smart
- T-Shirt as a new means of surveilling the behavior of
- pregnant women. Although the shirt was originally
- engineered for remote battlefield wound sensing and to
- facilitate telepresent surgery for soldiers or space
- travelers, it was not hard for subRosa to imagine
- “repurposing” DARPA’s Smart T-Shirt to control women’s
- productive and reproductive labor.</p>
- </section>
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