The construction of subjective notions of rights related to sexuality and/or reproduction is a relevant and timely field of research in contemporary Mexico. From the perspective of Latin American social psychology, I am interested in the analysis of processes that impinge on people recognizing themselves as subjects of “sexual” and/or “reproductive” rights, and the social … Read more
Both feminisms and finance are oriented through speculative futures, ranging from a palpable dread of disaster to an excited premonition of a better life. Western feminist promissories and financial gambles merge in the current popularity of “The Girl” as a figure of transnational rescue and investment. In 1992, Lawrence Summers (then chief economist for the … Read more
Probably the most significant break between articulations of neoliberalism lies between the older (Marxist) tradition of “political economy” and the Foucauldian threads that have delineated the characteristics of “neoliberal governmentality.” These literatures and their related political projects, based on fundamentally different ideas about the nature of political power, barely speak to each other. For those … Read more
Website whatremains2.wordpress.com Artist Statement what remains and is to come is a collaborative dialogue and research project by Katrina Brown and Rosanna Irvine. We work together and with the materials of our practice(s): paper, charcoal, body, breath and digital technology. We bring no pre-existing theme or subject matter. We agree to make something and to … Read more
Websites ManuelVason.comArtCollaboration.co.ukStillMovil.comDouble-Exposures.com Artist Statement I see my practice as a constant battle against the impossibility of reaching “presence.” For years I have been trying hard to bridge photography and performance, and everyday I live the illusion of having fulfilled my ambition. In the core of my practice lies an exchange; between myself and another artist, … Read more
Artist Statement A lot of my works are influenced from a variety of inspirations and interests such as 30s to 70s and “B” movie posters, album covers, pulp, old textbook illustrations, films, comics, obscure images and other pop sensibilities. I work both on collage and painting. I use the artworks or images of previous generations … Read more
Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology – Fembot Collective Rhizome In Media Res Take Back the Tech! Nasawiya Critical Commons Flow The Internet as Playground and Factory: A conference on Digital Labor Transformative Works and Cultures Show Your Work: Feminist Knowledge Production in Digital Communities Learning from YouTube
Abu-Lugod, Lila. “Bedouins, Cassettes and Technologies of Public Culture.” Middle East Report 42. 264 (Fall 2012). Print. Ahmed, Sara. “Affective Economies.” Social Text. 22.2 (Summer 2004). 117-139. Alyokhina, Maria, Yekaterina Samutsevich, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. “Pussy Riot Closing Statements.” n+1. August, 2012. Online. Ang, Ien. “Melodramatic Identification: Television Fictions and Women’s Fantasy.” Feminist Television Criticism. Ed. … Read more
In his introduction to this issue of The Scholar and Feminist Online, guest editor Jonathan Beller argues that “there is no such thing as technology itself,” radically destabilizing the notion that media, in all its new forms, is a neutral, objective, and disembodied space. As constructed by contemporary capitalism, new media platforms can reproduce forms … Read more
The complexity of gender requires an interdisciplinary and postdisciplinary set of discourses in order to resist the domestication of gender studies or women studies within the academy and to radicalize the notion of feminist critique.—Judith Butler With the word “Feminist” being nearly lost to (or perhaps subsumed by) corporate boosterism today, discourses of “leadership” and … Read more
