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Not now? Feminism, technology, postdigital

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posted on 2023-06-09, 12:32 authored by Caroline Bassett
‘Ours is a world that is both everywhere and nowhere, but it is not where bodies live’ — so said John Perry Barlow in the 1990s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, which diagnosed and made demands around a new reality. A quarter of a century later, in the era of the quantified self, in which computational devices and bodies intertwine to measure the human day and co-constitute the world in which we live, it is clear that something has changed. This change concerns the materialization of bodies, a classic feminist preoccupation, as well as the materials of technology — ours is a world that is everywhere and nowhere, in which bodies are redistributed through a technological economy. But the sense of distance this change engenders applies not only to the matter-free and invulnerable lives Barlow glimpsed in the 20th-century net,1 but to the early 21st-century web (pre/post-9/ll) and later; even voices celebrating the social in the Web 2.0, or the pre-Snowden era, sound distant now.

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Publication status

  • Published

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK

Page range

136-150

Pages

320.0

Book title

Postdigital aesthetics: art, computation and design

Place of publication

Basingstoke

ISBN

9781137437198

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  • Media and Film Publications

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  • No

Peer reviewed?

  • Yes

Editors

David M Berry, Michael Dieter

Legacy Posted Date

2018-03-19

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