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Zer(0) Knowledge under the Dark Side of The Cycle w Rachel-Rose O'Leary - Diffractions Collective
"Zer(0) Knowledge under the Dark Side of The Cycle w Rachel-Rose O'Leary - Diffractions Collective" 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 17
2 responses to “Zer(0) Knowledge under the Dark Side of The Cycle w/Rachel-Rose O’Leary” What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway?
Definition · paragraph 5
After getting interested in speculative realism, I encountered these philosophies like Nick Land, Amy Ireland, Anna Greenspan, the CCRU, and Xenofeminism. It was the book by Sadie Plant called Zeros and Ones, which is a fantastic work of what they call cyber-feminism. She basically uncovers this conspiracy between women and machines, where she says that women and machines are in a dark alliance to overthrow the patriarchy, which I thought was just amazing.
History · paragraph 2
Zer(0) Knowledge under the Dark Side of The Cycle w/Rachel-Rose O’Leary Written in September 7, 2022 by Dustin Breitling Diffractions Collective Dustin Breitling: Could you reflect on your personal trajectory? You have been steeped in digital art, Token Engineering, and DarkFi.
History · paragraph 17
2 responses to “Zer(0) Knowledge under the Dark Side of The Cycle w/Rachel-Rose O’Leary” What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway? September 20, 2022 […] recent interview by O’Leary indicates a lunarpunk interest in this positive future, built along the lines of […] REPLY What Are Solarpunk and Lunarpunk Anyway? – My Blog September 21, 2022 […] recent interview by O’Leary indicates a lunarpunk interest in this positive future, built along the lines of […] REPLY Leave a Reply Your email address will not be published.
Afterlife · paragraph 2
Further, you draw upon a myriad of thinkers who arguably form a constellation and are in dialogue with concepts such as autonomy, automation, Artificial Intelligence, encryption, Xenofeminism and Patchwork. Additionally, can you reflect upon the influence of thinkers like Amy Ireland, Nick Land, CCRU, Sadie Plant, and Anna Greenspan? Rachel-Rose O’Leary: I started studying art because I thought art was essentially something pure, outside the realm of profit-seeking and other kinds of activities.
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.