November 20 – Agenda & Notes

November 20 - Agenda Discuss definitions of feminist technology/care Do we want definitions at all? Care as a rejection of the neoliberal phallologocentric technological regime Technology defined broadly - analog, digital, etc. Feminist ethics of care (Carol Gilligan) Care as a feminist technology Four definitions for feminist technologies (Deborah Johnson) Tech that’s good for women …

Cyborg Space in Indie Games

While reading Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” which was published in 1984, I was struck by her analysis of what video games represented during the time she was writing: “Technologies like video games and highly miniaturized televisions seem crucial to production of modern forms of ‘private …

Challenged/Challenging Haraway/Puar

Generally, in my blog posts, I try not to summarize the readings, but instead to extend their arguments or raise salient questions. I’m not sure if this week’s readings have theory I have no grounding in, or that we’ve simply hit the inevitable point of endless sleep deprivation in the quarter, but I’m struggling to …

Complicating Post-Identitarianism and Not Making Babies

There are two very separate aspects of this week's readings that I was interested in addressing, so I am just going to address both separately in one post. In the first part, I am planning on discussing another piece of writing which engages with post-identitarian critiques of intersectionality like Puar's piece we read this week. …

Posthuman Cyborg, Assemblage, and the Chthulucene

In the interest of full disclosure- I’m obsessed with cyborg feminist discourse. My research for my master’s thesis is concerning representations of female cyborgs in film and media, and the way these characters are racialized. As I have a lot to say on the matter, for the purposes of this blog post, I am going …