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<h1> <a href="index.html">Ici THK</a> </h1>
<h2> Subrosa </h2>
<h3> Cyberfeminism</h3>
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<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>
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<h4>Sources</h4>
<p><a href="assets/BookChapt_TacticalBiopolitics_subRosa.pdf">SubRosa Tactical Biopolitics</a>, chapter 14, pp.221-242 (Subrosa, 1999)</p>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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<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>
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