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diff --git a/subrosa.html b/subrosa.html new file mode 100755 index 0000000..8012c45 --- /dev/null +++ b/subrosa.html @@ -0,0 +1,108 @@ +<!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> + <section id="author"> + <h4>About the Author</h4> + <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"> + <h4>Sources</h4> + <p><a href="assets/BookChapt_TacticalBiopolitics_subRosa.pdf">SubRosa Tactical Biopolitics</a>, chapter 14, pp.221-242 (Subrosa, 1999)</p> + </section> + <section id="exploitation"> + <h3> Common Knowledge and Political Love</h3> + + <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"> + <h4>Primitive Accumulation</h4> + <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"> + <h4>Resistance</h4> + <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"> + <h4>Detournement</h4> + <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> + |