Replicunts The Future of Cyberfeminism Virtual Futures 1995

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Self-transcribed from the recording's audio/video with Whisper ASR, then drawn from the frozen curation of the CCRU oral archive. The identifiers below fingerprint the exact source transcript files.

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• 00:00:00

  Can I welcome you all to Replicants, the future of cyberfeminism. I'm Sadie Plans and I'm chairing this and we hope that this will be very much a panel discussion that will involve the audience as much as possible. In fact we intend to say very little really and I know myself and I'm sure there's lots of other people…

• 00:14:02

  I mean, it does the job, but it's, you know, why have I got this really shitty computer that's aligned with, I guess, my position as a woman, you know, the financial status of this. So, I mean, as long as those inequities and the society about making less money, we're not going to have this with the boys, because…

• 00:24:35

  And, um, the other thing that I wanted to say is that I feel very strongly the question of transmission and responsibility, not in the sense of missionary positions and things like that. I love sex in other ways, broad and free. No, um, I was really, um, in Florence, for instance, I belong to the Amandala, which…

• 00:35:04

  I frequently do. How about we do interesting stuff happening with hypertext fiction, fictions, and also fiction. Some interesting things that Francesca's doing on the news, actually, interactive fiction, you know, so it's like performing fiction as it happens. I like the idea of, of, of hypertext fiction. It seems…

• 00:46:50

  I'd like to resume this. I'm sorry about that. Go on. Okay. Okay. What I was trying to explain very briefly is that we come out of a view of the subject that is a very strong subject, a subject that expresses itself in history. At least, you know, women have always been excluded from, you know, the historical process…

• 00:56:10

  And why do we need to market this concept of materialism to apply to a number of things which the market traditionally has looked at? To look at questions of gender, of sexuality, of race, as well as questions of gender, of materialism, of all of them. But we have to remember that we can do that with the net as well…

• 01:05:24

  That is because she feels that she can master them. And I appreciate that very much. And I liked this sort of image of her. This image of the superwoman occupying the net and sort of fighting off aggressors. I don't know enough about the medium to sort of to realize how, whether this is something, a technique…

• 01:27:05

  So if I can thank the panel and thank everybody for coming.