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CCRU- Intelligence Is No Longer On The Side Of Power
"Intelligence Is No Longer On The Side Of Power" develops the cyberfeminist line by tying gender, media systems, writing, and synthetic culture into one technical field.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page matters because cyberfeminism here is not an add-on to the archive's better-known themes. It is one of the places where circuitry, writing, labor, and gender are made to reorganize what counts as a subject or a system.
These texts work by making cultural criticism, theory, and technical description contaminate each other. The result is a model of subjectivity produced through networks, codes, and infrastructural mediation rather than grounded in stable identity.
That matters because the archive's human/machine problem changes once it is read through Plant, Parisi, and later xenofeminist debate. The future stops looking like a neutral technical horizon and becomes a struggle over who or what gets composed by it.
How to read this text
Read for where writing, labor, media, or embodiment are described as technical arrangements rather than background topics. That is where the page usually sharpens.
Keep an eye on how the page positions itself against humanist or moralizing accounts of technology. The section's strongest interventions are usually anti-essentialist and infrastructural at once.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 84
Well they’re thick. You see the point is that it’s where intelligence is. Intelligence is no longer on the side of power. That’s the point.
Definition · paragraph 88
The whole social structure in the past has been devoted to getting all the intelligent people, not just intelligent people because it goes way beyond that – it’s about intelligent processes – on to the side of power. That’s no longer the only place for people to go. And this again is again why markets are interesting because the difference between for example writing a book for a university press and the open market is the difference between total constraint and total freedom.
Definition · paragraph 88
And that’s good! The whole social structure in the past has been devoted to getting all the intelligent people, not just intelligent people because it goes way beyond that – it’s about intelligent processes – on to the side of power. That’s no longer the only place for people to go.
Definition · paragraph 92
Well again, rather as with women who have if you like been the means of communication between men, structurally and obviously trade routes and commodities have been just simply means of perpetuating the corporation and the state or any of the big, powerful structures. But increasingly, it’s pretty obvious now that the state is being eroded by its own markets and that they are no longer just serving it as means to its ends.
Definition · paragraph 92
Well again, rather as with women who have if you like been the means of communication between men, structurally and obviously trade routes and commodities have been just simply means of perpetuating the corporation and the state or any of the big, powerful structures.
Appears in sections
Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects Primary section
Sadie Plant, Amy Ireland, and the technical, gendered, and synthetic subject positions running through the archive.