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Plant - Cultural Studies and Philosophy Questionnare (Parallax 1995)
"Plant - Cultural Studies and Philosophy Questionnare (Parallax 1995)" develops the cyberfeminist line by tying gender, media systems, writing, and synthetic culture into one technical field.
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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 2
Cultural studies has invested in continental philosophy's reformulation of subjectivity, but has the reverse been the case? What are the implications of the recent return to 'ethics' as a site of love, friendship, tolerance and the acceptance of difference within the discourses of cultural studies and philosophy? Can the relations between cultural studies and philosophy negotiate a repoliticisation of culture and philosophy? parallax 93 Q CO \ I pi [,._» l _ , \ a r~"~ "" } . . . . - • .
Definition · paragraph 25
Cultural Studies and Philosophy: Culture Does Not Exist Can I say immediately that I think the way that parallax has posed the issues for discussion seems to be a reflection in of current problems?
Definition · paragraph 25
Cultural Studies and Philosophy: Culture Does Not Exist Can I say immediately that I think the way that parallax has posed the issues for discussion seems to be a reflection in of current problems? There is a 'stalemate' situation at the moment, but does mis arise from 'a failure to recognise and strategically deploy the multiple discourses that intersect in cultural studies'?
Definition · paragraph 25
There is a 'stalemate' situation at the moment, but does mis arise from 'a failure to recognise and strategically deploy the multiple discourses that intersect in cultural studies'? If I have really grasped this diagnosis, it does not seem a very adequate one: are we to develop a new eclecticism or a new intervention? And does the opposition, posed by parallax, 'continental versus anglo-american' philosophy still make sense?
History · paragraph 2
What are the implications of the recent return to 'ethics' as a site of love, friendship, tolerance and the acceptance of difference within the discourses of cultural studies and philosophy? Can the relations between cultural studies and philosophy negotiate a repoliticisation of culture and philosophy? parallax 93 Q CO \ I pi [,._» l _ , \ a r~"~ "" } . . . . - • . CD Downloaded by [UNSW Library] at 18:52 14 February 2016
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.