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Parisi - Abstract Sex (Continuum) (2004)
Luciana Parisi's Abstract Sex (Continuum, 2004) stratifies sex into biophysical, biocultural, and biodigital layers, detaching it from reproduction and the organism; endosymbiosis and information theory do the work Darwinian descent once did.
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Three strata carry Parisi's argument — bacterial and endosymbiotic sex, organismic reproduction, and biotech information transfer — so that evolution reads as recombination rather than a tree of descent.
This matters because Abstract Sex is Parisi's first monograph and the point where the Warwick cyberfeminist line becomes a signed systems philosophy.
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Read it beside the shorter Parisi essays and the 2004 Matthew Fuller interview, which this book turns into one system.
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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.