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+ <title> Ici THK — Cyberfeminism </title>
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+ <header>
+ <h1> <a href="index.html">Ici THK</a> </h1>
+ <h2> Subrosa </h2>
+ <h3> Cyberfeminism</h3>
+ </header>
+ <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>
+ </article>
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+ <li><a href="bernard-aspe.html">ASPE</a></li>
+ <li><a href="karen-barad.html">BARAD</a></li>
+ <li><a href="muriel-combes.html">COMBES</a></li>
+ <li><a href="stephane-lupasco.html">LUPASCO</a></li>
+ <li><a href="deborah-lupton.html">LUPTON</a></li>
+ <li><a href="lynn-margulis.html">MARGULIS</a></li>
+ <li><a href="gilbert-simondon.html">SIMONDON</a></li>
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