EARTHBOUND SQUATTERS
Watching shows, I often feel that the performers try to make me feel a certain way: to laugh, to cry, to be turned on, to be shocked, to feel catharsis….
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ON TIME
Our bodies are a clock. Right here and now, always. Time is proportion, time is scale, timing is everything. Time passes. The MC is on the mic, gentlemen. And you…
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What matters about matter?
What matters about matter? In the October edition of VULVA CLUB,f riendship-based collective female trouble hosted an evening around different intellectual notions of matter, material, and materiality. They drew from…
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INTERVIEW WITH MARI LUZ ESTEBAN
Mari Luz Esteban is a feminist anthropologist who studies the body and human emotions. She teaches at the Universidad del País Vasco (UPV/EHU), where she is also a mentor for…
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LABOR OR LABOR – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS #5
Imperialist and sexist systems of control are imprinted in the way society thinks about, and acts around, labor. Be it how we work, how we give birth, or how we…
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TECHNOLOGIES FOR LIBERATION (PART III): CYBORG MONSTERS ARE THE REAL KNIGHTS IN SHINING ARMOUR
Donna Haraway describes the cyborg in “The Cyborg Manifesto” as a biotic system in a post-gender world, and a creature of social reality and fiction. This cyborg is closer to…
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Technologies for liberation (Part II): Denying masculinity and becoming Grace Kelly, or how to avoid femininity by becoming Clint
Marcela Negro de Leserre, in her essay “El deseo es el deseo del otro. La influencia de Hegel en Lacan”[1], explains a revolutionary idea: if a person only becomes dignified…
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Technologies for liberation: Pepper, Dorian, Octavia, the many Grace Kellys and the Cyborg Monsters (Part I)
I saw “Paris is Burning”, a documentary by Jennie Livingston, and watched the part when participants competed for the title of “FQ Realness” over and over again. To me, this…
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EDITORS’ LETTER #4
“Technology is not neutral. We’re inside of what we make, and it’s inside of us. We’re living in a world of connections – and it matters which ones get made…
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MANIFESTO ON FREEDOM / MANIFESTO OF MY BODY
We must impress in our minds: Freedom does not exist. I have never understood the people who pursue Freedom like dogs chasing a mechanical rabbit at a race; ‘mechanical’ here…
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