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Xenofeminism; A Politics for Alienation
The core Laboria Cuboniks statement, treating alienation as a resource for technical emancipation rather than a condition to be overcome through return to the natural.
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Core idea
These pages matter because they show xenofeminism as a wager on using technical alienation rather than rejecting it. The future is treated as something to be engineered through abstraction, reason, and synthetic collectivity, even when that wager is contested.
Manifesto, critique, and interview form each make a different part of the argument visible. Policy language, political objection, and poetic militancy all become ways of testing what alien emancipation could mean.
That matters because the later feminist afterlife of the archive is not reducible to influence. It is a live argument over how much of technical modernity can be repurposed and at what cost.
How to read this text
Read the page's stance on alienation first. Whether alienation is being embraced, revised, or criticized determines almost everything else.
Watch how abstraction is translated into politics or poetics. That is where the page's synthetic ambition becomes most concrete.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 22
9 Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation laboriacuboniks.net | @Xenofeminism Laboria Cuboniks infrastructure and break the economic cycles that lock it in place. The task before us is twofold, and our vision necessarily stereoscopic: we must en- gineer an economy that liberates reproductive labour and family life, while building models of familiality free from the deadening grind of wage labour. From the home to the body, the articulation of a proactive politics for biotechnical intervention and hormones presses.
Definition · paragraph 16
6 Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation laboriacuboniks.net | @Xenofeminism Laboria Cuboniks PARITY Xenofeminism is gender-abolitionist. ‘Gender abolitionism’ is not code for the eradication of what are currently considered ‘gendered’ traits from the human population.
Definition · paragraph 3
2 Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation laboriacuboniks.net | @Xenofeminism Laboria Cuboniks Why is there so little explicit, organized effort to repurpose technologies for progressive gender political ends? XF seeks to strategically deploy existing technologies to re-engineer the world.
Stakes · paragraph 20
8 Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation laboriacuboniks.net | @Xenofeminism Laboria Cuboniks CARRY The potential of early, text-based internet culture for countering repres- sive gender regimes, generating solidarity among marginalised groups, and creating new spaces for experimentation that ignited cyberfeminism in the nineties has clearly waned in the twenty-first century.
Stakes · paragraph 23
10 Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation laboriacuboniks.net | @Xenofeminism Laboria Cuboniks articulates explicit, but places demands on us as subjects. How are we to become hosts of this new world? How do we build a better semiotic para- site—one that arouses the desires we want to desire, that orchestrates not an autophagic orgy of indignity or rage, but an emancipatory and egalitarian community buttressed by new forms of unselfish solidarity and collective self-mastery?
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.