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CyberFem <br>

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[[File:POSTHUMANISMICON.png]] [[Post-Humanism]] <br>

[[File:Radfem.png]] [[Radical Feminism]] <br>

[[File:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] <br>

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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."

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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 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.

**[[File:Cyberfem.png]] '''CyberFem''' - A shortend version of the term CyberFeminism.

**[[File:Cyberfem.png]] '''Cybernetic Feminism''' - A elongated version of the term CyberFeminism.

*[[File:VNS Matrix.png]] '''VNS Matrix Thought''' - VNS Matrix Thought refers to the ideas the art collective V(e)N(u)S Matrix had in which they combined Dadaist art, Cyborgian Feminism, and their readings of Simone de Beauvoir. As Julian Pierce put it: "In 1991, in a cozy Australian city called Adelaide, four bored girls decided to have some fun with art and French Feminist theory... with homage to Donna Haraway they began to play around with the idea of cyberfeminism." {{Refn|https://www.monoskop.org/images/7/77/First_Cyberfeminist_International_1998.pdf |group=Reference}}

 

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 down the nuclease of the whole movement to Sadie Plant or VNS Matrix.

===The Cybernetic Culture Research Unit===

====Sadie Plants Departure====

====Abandoning of 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===

Cyborgian Feminism is the ideology of Donna Harraway. Cyborgian Feminism asserts that through the innate connections that we have with technology we are all essentially already Cyborgs and that through this new vectors towards genderlessness are opened through the Cyborgs open-source and undefinable nature. She connects this with her theory of Feminism and Socialism.

====[[File:VNS_Matrix.png]] VNS Matrix Thought====

*[[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: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. "

*[[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

*[[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:Ormarxf.png]] [[Marxism]] - Engels was a true Feminist, even if a bit short-sighted.

 

*[[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: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"

CyberFeminism-Aycee_Lovelace-Portrait.png|Portrait of CyberFeminism, Credit: Aycee Lovelace

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