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SPIKE-70-Amy-Ireland-Is-Crypto-Patriarchys-Newest-Tech
"SPIKE-70-Amy-Ireland-Is-Crypto-Patriarchys-Newest-Tech" 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
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Page 59 By Amy Ireland Question Is Crypto Patriarchy’s Newest Tech? Page 58 Question AMY IRELAND CRYPTO There’s no shortage of commentators eager to level this accusation against Web3, but what does it mean to call a technology “patriarchal”? It seems to me that this charge is based on three fundamen- tal assumptions: that the relationship between humans and technology is one of users and tools; that we already know what “women” are; and that the legibility of IRL identities equals political agency.
Definition · paragraph 1
Page 59 By Amy Ireland Question Is Crypto Patriarchy’s Newest Tech? Page 58 Question AMY IRELAND CRYPTO There’s no shortage of commentators eager to level this accusation against Web3, but what does it mean to call a technology “patriarchal”?
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But these ideas themselves are part of the representational system of patriarchy – and if we continue to rely on them, this is only evidence of the extent to which patriarchal assumptions con- cerning identity are preventing us from assessing new technologies on their own terms. Patriarchy’s authentication system has always sidelined women as social agents. They have been the objects to patriarchy’s subjects, and their status as “human” hasn’t always been a given.
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It seems to me that this charge is based on three fundamen- tal assumptions: that the relationship between humans and technology is one of users and tools; that we already know what “women” are; and that the legibility of IRL identities equals political agency.
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They have been the objects to patriarchy’s subjects, and their status as “human” hasn’t always been a given. This is fem- inism’s basic insight. Some feminists aim to rectify this by fighting to secure for women the same sta- tus as that enjoyed by men – in doing so, tacitly endorsing the patriarchy’s rules of validation and the attendant dogma that legibility equals power.
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.