Re: Women and Luddism
Mary Bryson (brys who-is-at unixg.ubc.ca)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 11:16:01 -0700
gotta say something about the notion of a feminist Luddism from PD
As Donna Haraway and Sadie Plant (and others) have so rightly argued,
feminists can't afford Luddism.
And anyway, Luddism, as a praxis, was, pragmatically speaking, a total
failure. The automoated loom manufacturers continued to build their
factories and get workers to bend to unhealthy and alienated conditions,
and on and on modernism pressed.
So no, Luddism is no option. And no, there is nothing logical about the
digital universe, as Ada Countess of Lovelace so eloquently argued.
There is, however, a cultural logic to oppression, and it seems worthwhile
to figure out how to hack or jack into that code and really mess it up
good.
a rad "we don't need men at all" feminist:
Mary up in vancouver
Dr. Mary Bryson, Associate Professor and UBC Scholar 1999,
Faculty of Education, UBC
Principal Co-Investigator: GenTech Project
http://www.educ.sfu.ca/gentech/