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Cyberfeminism is a feminist approach which foregrounds the relationship between cyberspace, the Internet, and technology. It can be used to refer to a philosophy, art practices, methodologies or community.[1] The term was coined in the early 1990s to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, exploring and re-making the Internet, cyberspace and new-media technologies in general.
The first use of the term cyberfeminist has been attributed to Australian artists and art collectives. The inception of the cyberfeminist art movement is described by one of its pioneers Linda Dement, as one that "coagulated and sparked in the reject-outsider mutiny, trauma-jouissance and fast hard beat of queer punk. It found visible existence and a manifesto, through VNS Matrix in the (typical) Adelaide heat wave of 1991… Cyberfeminism, as blurred edge range, entangles carnality with code; machines, blood and bad language; poetry and disdain; executables, theft and creative fabrication. It incites and follows lines of flight powered by contradiction, relatedness, transgression, and misbehaviour. It simultaneously embraces logic and unreason, giving the finger to binaries as it ravishes them."[2]
VNS Matrix's A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century was published online in 1991.[3][4][5]
The foundational catalyst for the formation of cyberfeminist thought is often attributed by Europeans to Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto", third wave feminism, post-structuralist feminism, riot grrrl culture and the feminist critique of the alleged erasure of women within discussions of technology. Although the cyberfeminists _in the know_[clarification needed] will always take time to explain that it was Sadie Plant who seeded the ground in "Zeros and Ones, Digital Women and the New Technoculture" [6]
- ^ Harlow, Megan Jean (2013), "Cyberfeminism", The Multimedia Encyclopedia of Women in Today's World (2 ed.), SAGE Publications, pp. 430–433, doi:10.4135/9781452270388.n94, ISBN 9781452270388, archived from the original on 2018-08-06, retrieved 2018-07-31
- ^ Dement, Linda (2017). "Cyberfeminist bedsheet". Artlink. 37 (4). Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 21 October 2020.
- ^ "A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century ⁄ VNS Matrix". VNS Matrix. 2018-01-16. Archived from the original on 2024-04-25. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
- ^ Couey, Anna (2003). "Restructuring Power: Telecommunications Works Produced by Women". In Malloy, Judy (ed.). Women, art, and technology. Leonardo. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-13424-8.
- ^ Paasonen, Susanna (2005). Figures of fantasy: internet, women & cyberdiscourse. Digital formations. New York: Peter Lang. ISBN 978-0-8204-7607-0.
- ^ Plant, Sadie (1995). Zeros and Ones, Digital Women and the New Technoculture. New York: Doubleday. ISBN 0385482604. Archived from the original on 2024-05-08. Retrieved 2024-08-05.