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Matthew Fuller - Luciana Parisi Interview (2004)
A Luciana Parisi interview that makes her account of event, technics, and embodied process publicly legible without flattening its complexity.
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Core idea
These pages are crucial because they show how the section's most demanding philosophical line works. Event and evolution are treated as processual relays through which bodies, sensation, and difference are continually composed.
The pages operate by refusing a simple split between matter and abstraction. Technical processes and lived embodiment are forced into the same frame, which changes how difference itself can be described.
That matters because this is where the section most clearly exceeds scene history and becomes a serious metaphysics of technical subjectivity. It is also where later xenofeminist arguments inherit some of their most difficult material.
How to read this text
Read for how event is made to precede stable identity. Once that shift is clear, the account of bodies and difference becomes much easier to follow.
Track where process is treated as both material and conceptual. That crossing is the core of the page's force.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
Luciana Parisi Interview “Jungle laws, animals laws, seabed laws: what are you defending mate?” Lee Scratch Perry Matthew Fuller: Your use of the term ‘sex’ is used, in Lynn Margulis’ words, in the following way: ‘Sex in the biological sense has nothing to do with copulation; neither is it intrinsically related to reproduction or gender.
Definition · paragraph 3
The biophysical, the biocultural and the biodigital amalgamation of layers composing a constellation of bodies within bodies, each grappled within the previous and the next formation – a sort of positive feedback upon each other cutting across specific time scales. In other words, these levels of stratification constitute for Abstract Sex the endosymbiotic dynamics of organization of matter – a sort of antigenealogical process of becoming that suspends the teleology of evolution and the anthropocentrism of life.
Definition · paragraph 3
In other words, these levels of stratification constitute for Abstract Sex the endosymbiotic dynamics of organization of matter – a sort of antigenealogical process of becoming that suspends the teleology of evolution and the anthropocentrism of life.
Definition · paragraph 5
Affect and joy on the contrary operate in total autonomy from pleasure as they expose a distinctive assemblage of desire or singular actualization of desiring potentials that emerge from encounters between bodies that agree – i.e. their symbiotic combination enables the production of a new body or a becoming that has pushed these bodies in a new composition.
Definition · paragraph 7
Since the first wave of cybernetics, control remains the most difficult of strategies to manage populations and their environment. Control indeed cannot occur without the unexpected phase of becoming. Its affective power cannot impinge without facing the indeterminate capacities of a body of relations to change – to engineer a new dimension of the whole modifying its conditions with the rest of parts.
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Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects Primary section
Sadie Plant, Amy Ireland, and the technical, gendered, and synthetic subject positions running through the archive.