Domain Errors!: Cyberfeminist Practises

"This provocative book makes it perfectly clear that feminism is not dead - it's a critical weapon...a must read for all becoming cyberfeminists and autonomous agents!" Elizabeth Hess, writer/critic "If you want another e-feminist volume rehashing Lacan, weaving as metaphor, or the icon as on-line identity, don't buy this book. These cyberfeminists take no prisoners as they march through the virtual territories of postcolonial power vectors in an attempt to establish living models of resistance. Lock and load, ladies!" Critical Art Ensemble "This exceptional collection of writings and artist projects performs a resistant feminist politics. Charting new strategies and practices, the authors imagine liberatory possibilities for our bodies, identities, and social relations in the era of digitized networks and genetic engineering." Miwon Kwon, editor, Documents Part performative intervention, part radical polemic and activist manual, Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices introduces a diverse international group of feminist writers, artists, theorists, and activists engaged in formulating a contestational politics for tactical cyberfeminism. This recombinant book highlights productive intersections of feminist and postcolonial discourses through critical analyses of the embodied politics of digital culture. Opening areas repressed in previous cyberfeminist discourses, the authors map contemporary social relations between women as they are mediated and transformed by digital and bio technologies. Cyberfeminism studies included at the following universities, among others: York, Salford, Leeds, Goldsmith's, Lancaster, Sussex.

Table of Contents:
Introduction: Practicing Cyberfeminisms subRosa and The Editors I. Racism and Cyberfeminism in the Integrated Circuit Situating Cyberfeminisms - Maria Fernandez and Faith Wilding Cyberfeminism, Racism, Embodiment - Maria Fernandez Racism, Technology, and the Limits of Western Knowledge - Michelle M. Wright Race in the Construct, or the Construction of Race: New Media and Old Identities in "The Matrix" - Lisa Nakamura Moscow: Fortress City - Irene Aristarkhova The Woman Question: Addressing Women as Internet Users - Susanna Paasonen "Analoging" the Digital, Digitizing the Analog: Contemplations on Communities of Production and Virtuality - Rhadika Gajjala and Annapurna Mamidipudi II. The Female Flesh Commodities Lab InVisible/Body: Notes on Biotechnologies' Vision - Lucia Sommer of maps and holes - Lucia Sommer Stolen Rhetoric: The Appropriation of Choice by ART Industries - subRosa Vulvas with a Difference - Faith Wilding Hands-on Reiki - Christina Hung A Summary History of Eugenic Theories and Practices in the United States Emily de Araujo and Lucia Sommer The Cyborg Mommy User's Manual - Pattie Belle Hastings So You Wanna be a Cyborg Mommy? Queer Identity and New Reproductive Technologies - Tania Kupczak Inside Infertility - Amelia Jones Sex and Gender Ed for the Biotech Century - subRosa TimelineS: Production/Reproduction and Children-as-Commodities in the United States - Lucia Sommer III. Research! Action! Embodiment! Conviviality! subRosa Manifestations Making Babies the American Girl Way - Terri Kapsalis, with photographs by Claire Pentecost Happy Endings: Engagements with Women Artists from Singapore - Irina Aristarkhova Cybernetic Social Space - Nell Tenhaaf Embodiment and the Politics of Healing: Interview with Reiki Master, Kate Daher Maria Fernandez Consider a New Career - Hyda Willis Rant of a Menopausal Cyborg - Faith Wilding Refugia! Manifesto for Becoming Autonomous Zones (BAZ) - subRosa Appendices Contributors subRosa's Selected Bibliography

About the Author :
Maria Fernandez is an art historian whose interests centre on post-colonial studies, electronic media theory, Latin American colonial and modern art, and the intersections of these fields. She has been influential in the formation of colonial studies in art history, applying postcolonial theory and cultural history to art history and historiography. Faith Wilding emigrated to the United States in l961 from Paraguay. She received her MFA at CalArts where she was a founding member of the Feminist Art Program. Wilding is a multidisciplinary artist whose work addresses aspects of the somatic, psychic, and sociopolitical history of the body. Michelle M. Wright is an associate professor of English who works in African American, Black European, African Diasporic and postcolonial studies. She has published a wide variety of articles on the issue of Black identity in the West for a number of journals and anthologies.