User:Michel W/MMM personal readers
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Q&A:
✨what do you want to investigate? - The relationships between myself, feminist, cyborg, queerness.
✨what are you trying to find out? - How to integrate an artistic project and my statement related to these topics.
✨what tickles your curiosity in the topics you are currently investigating? - Because I feel the needs to delve into these themes, also it's a way to understand myself more with identities.
What is the versions of feminism for my self-identities?
How do you connect yourself to the cyborg and feminism?
What are these boundaries (come from)?
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir
Synopsis
The Second Sex delves into the concept of feminism by looking at historical facts and biases, and explains how being a woman implies making yourself smaller so that you can fit in today's society, and how we reacted and fight for it.
Why
I've always intrigued by themes related to feminism, and would like to bring this into my future projects/researches. in her book The second sex, Simone de Beauvoir discusses the treatment of women in the present society as well as throughout all of history. I like her argues about "What is woman?", and that man is considered the default, while woman is considered the "Other". In addition, about the issues of women should get rid of the responsibility of "giving birth" etc.
⭑A Cyborg Manifesto - Donna Haraway
Synopsis
Haraway introduces the potential of a completely new ontology of hybridization of nature and culture through the cyborg, a combination of machine and organism. Haraway’s use of the cyborg illustrates her conceptualizations of socialism and feminism in the examinations of dichotomies such as nature/culture, mind/body, and idealism/materialism. Her cyborgs are a blending of imagination and material reality.
Why
I've always fascinated with the hybrid of human with other creatures and materials. I would like to explore the boundaries and possibilities of those. Furthermore, seeking the connections between my self identities and this manifesto.
Quotation
- A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organ ism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. It is resolutely committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity. It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without innocence.
- I am making an argument for the cyborg as a fiction mapping our social and bodily reality and as an imaginative resource suggesting some very fruitful couplings. This essay is an argument for pleasure in the confusion of boundaries and for responsibility in their construction.
- Utopian tradition of imagining a world without gender, which is perhaps a world without genesis, but maybe al�o a world without end.
- Nothing really convincingly settles the separation of human and animal. The pleasure of connection of human and other living creatures.
- Modern machines are quintessentially microelectronic devices: they are everywhere and they are invisible.
- There might be a cyborg Alice taking account of these new dimensions. So my cyborg myth is about transgressed boundaries, potent fusions, and dangerous possibilities which progressive people might explore as one part of needed political work.
- A cyborg world might be about lived social and bodily realities in which people are not afraid of their joint kinship with animals and machines, not afraid of permanently partial identities and contradictory standpoints.
- There is nothing about being "female" that naturally binds women. There is not even such a state as "being" female, itself a highly complex category constructed in contested sexual scientific discourses and other social practices.
- The common achievement ofKing and Sandoval is learning how to craft a poetic/political unity without relying on a logic of appropriation, incorporation, and taxonomic identification.
- What kind of politics could embrace par tial, contradictory, permanently unclosed constructions ofpersonal and collective selves and still be faithful, effective-and, ironically, socialist feminist?
Everything is a cyborg. We are cyborgs.
⭑The Ethical Sluts: a practical guide to polyamory, open relationships and other freedoms in sex and love - Dossie Easton & Janet Hardy
Synopsis
The Ethical sluts is a self-help and self-learning book, focusing on non-monogamy and polyamorous guidance.
Why
I've read this book several times over the years. For me, it is a book about self-understanding beyond "mainstream sexual ethics," and it guides you through different types of relationships. From my previous projects, love, sex, and relationships are topics that I delve into. Through these practices, I gain a deeper understanding of myself and my identities.
Witches, Sluts, Feminists: Conjuring the Sex Positive - Kristen J. Sollee
Synopsis
This book enriches our contemporary conversations about reproductive rights, sexual pleasure, queer identity, pornography, sex work, and more.
Why
I feel a strong connection to the societal misogyny surrounding women's nudity and slut shaming. I've read the book called "The Ethical Slut": A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships, and Other Freedoms in Sex and Love which really gives me lots of inspirations and thoughts related to this themes.