Cyberfeminism Reading Group
The Cyberfeminism Reading Group is a group that comes together every three weeks to discuss cyberfeminist essays and stories.
Through discussing these texts, we hope to foster a critical awareness of how our digital technologies contribute to existing inequalities - but also what possibilities and opportunities they bring.
- location: Bentomo, (https://www.bentomoclub.com/) at Kerklaan 23, Groningen, nl.
- Price: free, but donations are very welcome to pay for the space and the tea, coffee and snacks present.
- Sign up: please email sudonano@mailbox.org so we can get an idea of how many people to expect. That said, you're always welcome to join last-minute.
The reading group is facilitated by: MariΓ‘n Crespo LΓ³pez & Wisse Krikke
Upcoming gatherings:
- 24 november 19:00h: page 1-100 of zeros + ones: digital women + the new technoculture by Sadie Plant
In this first meeting of the group, we will discuss the first 100 pages of Sadie Plant's foundational text zeros + ones: digital women + the new technoculture, published in 1997.
Link to pdf, hosted by monoskop.
Blurb from openlibrary.org:
Beginning with Ada Lovelace and her unheralded contributions to Charles Babbage and his development of the Difference Engine, Sadie Plant traces the critical contributions women have made to the progress of computing.
Shattering the myth that women are victims of technological change, Zeros + Ones shows how women and women's work in particular - weaving and typing, computing and telecommunicating - have been tending the machinery of the digital age for generations, the very technologies that are now revolutionizing the Western world.
In this manifesto on the relationship between women and machines, Sadie Plant explores the networks and connections implicit in nonlinear systems and digital machines. Steering a course beyond the old feminist dichotomies, Zeros + Ones is populated by a diverse chorus of voices - Anna Freud, Mary Shelley, Alan Turing - conceived as exploratory bundles of intelligent matter, emergent entities hacking through the constraints of their old programming and envisioning a postpatriarchal future.
See you there!