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diff --git a/subrosa.html b/subrosa.html deleted file mode 100755 index a26d49f..0000000 --- a/subrosa.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,110 +0,0 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html> -<html> - <head> - <meta charset="UTF-8"> - <title> Ici THK — Cyberfeminism </title> - <link rel="stylesheet" href="assets/css/style.css"> - </head> - <body> - <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> - <nav> - <ul> - <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> - <li><a href="subrosa.html">SUBROSA</a></li> - <li><a href="etc.html">Etc.</a></li> - </ul> - </nav> - </main> - </body> -</html> - |