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'''CyberFeminism''' is a philosophical and artistic movement which seeks to try and find the historical relationship between feminity and technology and seeks to analyze it via [[File:Poststruct.png]] Post-Structuralist and [[File:Postmodernicon.png]] Postmodernist critique. CyberFeminism can broadly be said to be a part of the [[File:PostmodernFem.png]] Postmodern Feminist and [[File:Postfem.png]] Post-Feminist tendencies of the Feminist Movement and with that it can also be said that it is part of the [[File:3WF.png]] Third Wave of Feminism.▼
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"Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and externally designed, and many other distinctions that used to apply to organisms and machines. Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves are frighteningly inert. [...] Modern machines are quintessentially microelectronic devices: they are everywhere and they are invisible. [...] Writing, power and technology are old partners in Western stories of the origin of civilization, but miniaturization has changed our experience of the mechanism."
|speaker= [[File:Cyborgfem.png]] [[Postgenderism|Donna J. Haraway]]
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▲'''CyberFeminism''' is a philosophical and artistic movement which seeks to try and find the historical relationship between feminity and technology and
==Etymology==
*[[File:Cyberfem.png]] '''CyberFeminism''' - The term CyberFeminism has unclear origins but what is known is that the term refers to Cybernetic Feminism i.e. a Feminism which analyses the feminine via cybernetics and connects the two.
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==[[File:Historian.png]] History==
CyberFeminism as a movement started in the early 1990s with the
===Influences===
CyberFeminism is strongly influenced by the Radical Feminist movement of the 70s second wave of Feminism. Taking the ideas Shulamith Firestone had of world free from the biological slavery women were forced into via their ability to give birth. Another big influence was Donna Harraway who introduced certain elements of Post-Modern analysis to the ideas Shulamith Firestone had created and this resulted in what Firestone essentially predicted would happen: Cyborgian Feminism. This is the corpus of Proto-CyberFeminism.
But CyberFeminism isn't simply defined by the parts that it took up from its then unnamed predecessor, it included elements both of Deleuze using his ideas of rhizomes to great effect.
===Proto-CyberFeminism===
The intellectual origins of CyberFeminism can be found in writers of [[File:2WF.png]] Second Wave Feminism.
Shulamith Firestone is a big contributor to the groundwork for the CyberFeminist project, especially
The same can be said of Donna Haraway in her groundlaying work ''A Cyborg Manifesto'' written in 1985, in which she conceptualizes the feminine potential that the cyborg as an amorphous being clouding the taxonomy of existing species offers to the Feminist Project.
===Creation of CyberFeminism===
The exact point in time of the creation of CyberFeminism can not be pinpointed but it is generally accepted that VNS Matrix was the first CyberFeminist collective to exist, being formed in the early 90s, but whether the term was coined by them or by Sadie Plant is a topic that is still in debate. The general stances are that one can either narrow
===The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit===
Sadie Plant worked at the University of Birmingham, until 1995 when she became a lecturer at the University of Warwick, where she founded the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit (CCRU) to research the effects of cyberculture.
====Sadie Plants Departure====
====Abandoning of CyberFeminism====
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===Decline===
CyberFeminism has since the early 2000s declined heavily in popularity, and many factors have played into this. The abandoning of the CCRU as a CyberFeminist project and its eventual turning into a quasi-cult caused Sadie Plant to distance herself from politics
Along with that soon reality started to catch up with many of the CyberFeminists as they soon realized that the old prejudices which existed in meatspace also soon came to exist in cyberspace essentially causing the loss of the utopian vision that CyberFeminism had of the future.
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===Contemporary CyberFeminism===
While there are still CyberFeminist collectives around like VNS Matrix, most have either died or turned to become Post-CyberFeminist. CyberFeminism very much is a dead movement as of currently seeing surges in popularity with the establishment of Laboria Cuboniks sparking interest in CyberFeminism from a much younger audience, which was quite unfamiliar with the techno-utopianism that was practiced by the CyberFeminists, making them seem very alien as a movement, a product of its time.
===Influenced===
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==Variants==
===Conflicts Within CyberFeminism===
Conflicts within CyberFeminism could be said to be either extremely wide spread, or non-existent, as the very nature of the movement invited ideological conflict to form a better more accurate analysis. As such conflict was a process within the CyberFeminist movement.
===Factions Within CyberFeminism===
One thing that is generally observed is that there is a ideological split between CyberFeminists inspired heavily by Sadie Plant and the people that inspired here and everyone else in the CyberFeminist movement. Many did not take up the Deleuzian ideas Sadie Plant espoused, but this did not result in the creation of factions since CyberFeminism was by its very definition undefinable and with that the ability to draw lines in the sand was lost.
===Schools of Thought===
====[[File:Cyborgfem.png]] Cyborgian Feminism====
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===Variation Designs===
====How to Draw Cyborgian Feminism====
{{Flag|Cyborgfemnewflag.png}}
#Draw a ball and fill it with a very dark purple-ish blue.
#Replace the top left quarter of the ball with robotic parts, ideally shown as the inside of the ball with the "skin" tearing off stretching to the eye, which is robotic and glowing light red.
#In a light yellow, Draw an industrial cog in the middle, and a cross below it in the shape of a venus symbol (♀).
#Add a red bow, or alternatively a yellow flower crown with green vines, and you're done!
{{Flag-auto
|c1 = Light Yellow
|h1 = #FFBFAA
|c2 = Very Dark Purple-ish Blue
|h2 = #242133
|c3 = Red for the bow
|h3 = #E72C2C
|c4 = Light red for the eye
|h4 = #FF4F4F
|c5 = Lighter red for the eye
|h5 = #FF8787
}}
====How to Draw VNS Matrix Thought====
#Draw a ball,
#Fill the ball in blue,
#Draw the letters VNS in white on the blue background
#Draw two cyborg eyes (dark grey outside and lavender inside),
#And you're done
{{Flag-auto
|c1 = White
|h1 = #FFFFFF
|c2 = Blue
|h2 = #0000ff
|c3 = Dark Grey
|h3 = #2C2C2C
|c4 = Lavender
|h4 = #BD95EF
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==Relationships==
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*[[File:Situ.png]] [[Situationism]] - I love your art so much inspired me to do some dadaist stuff
*[[File:Cybercr.png]] [[Cyberocracy]] - Women are Cyborgs!
*[[File:Meta-Anarchism.png]] [[
*[[File:Soul.png]] [[Soulism]] - "An endless geographic plane of micromeshing pulsing quanta, limitless webs of interacting blendings, leakings, mergings, weaving through ourselves, running rings around each other, heedless, needless, aimless, careless, thoughless, amok. "
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*[[File:Indust.png]] [[Industrialism]] - The punch card and the spinning stoole eneabled the feminine to take advantage of the world it was created and adpated for before it even existed.
*[[File:Radfem.png]] [[Radical Feminism]] - The radical dialectical and materialist analysis you pushed for to understand our position is one of the great innovations you have brought to our project
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===Frenemies===
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*[[File:Fem.png]] [[Feminism]] [[File:Fem-Pussyhat.png]] - I love you but your analysis is severly lacking.
*[[File:Acidcomf.png]] [[Acid Communism]] - I don't know what to say....
*[[File:LesbiaNRx.png]] [[LesbiaNRx]] - You know I like you daughter and your analysis somewhat, daughter, but why do you like [[Landian Accelerationism|him]] more? I just don't know how to feel about you..
*[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - Engels was a true Feminist, even if a bit short-sighted.
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*[[File:Pat.png]] [[Patriarchy]] - The second sex comes after the first!
*[[File:Nrx.png]] [[Neoreactionaryism]] - You hammered the nail into the coffin with Land you ruined him fully
*[[File:Landian_Accelerationism.png]] [[Landian Accelerationism]] - God I can't believe I used to date you... <S> Forget about [[File:LesbiaNRx.png]] [[LesbiaNRx|our daughter]] for a second </S>
*[[File:FemCap.png]] [[Libertarian Feminism]] - LIVINGSTON, WHY YOU PREFER [[File:Landian_Accelerationism.png]] [[Landian Accelerationism|HIM]] OVER ME?
*[[File:Eugen.png]] [[Eugenicism]] - Patriarchy and its attempt at destroying the free-flowing nature of our cells.
*[[File:Ismism_Icon.png]] [[Ismism]] - "CyberFeminism is not an ism"
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==Further Information==
For overlapping political theory see:
<center><small>[[File:Accel.png|18px]] [[Accelerationism]], [[File:LesbiaNRx.png|18px]] [[LesbiaNRx]], [[File:Radfem.png|18px]] [[Radical Feminism]], [[File:Fem.png|18px]] [[Feminism]] [[File:Fem-Pussyhat.png|18px]],[[File:
===Websites===
====Wikipedia====
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CyberFeminism-Aycee_Lovelace-Portrait.png|Portrait of CyberFeminism, Credit: Aycee Lovelace
Non-Quad Squad.png|Credit: [[File:METBOL.png]] [[User:Muddy Mudkipz]] (Old Design)
Cyberfem-Legacy.png|Old icon
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====Portraits of variants====
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Cyborgfemnew.png|Cyborgian Feminism portrait and design by Insmarechale
Cyborgian Feminism-Aycee Lovelace-Portrait.png|Old Portrait and design of Cyborgian Feminism, Credit: Aycee Lovelace
VNS Matrix Thought-Aycee Lovelace-Portrait.png|Portrait of VNS Matrix Thought, Credit: Aycee Lovelace
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