User:Zuhui/π/Misplaced Concretism and Concrete Situations: Feminism, Method, and Information Technology
Introduction: The 'turkey baster disaster' and the realpolitik
What was important about it for our purposes here, however, was a marked shift in the community from essentialist, βbiologicallyβ driven explana- tions to more complex, contradictory, heterogeneous ways of thinking about experi- ence and situations. βMenβ became modified by βour sonsβ; βmutantsβ were newly domesticated and intimate. And from this experience and many others, the vocabulary of essentialism was deeply scrutinized and abandoned (by many). Among other things, we took the misplaced concretism of sex and re-situated it within the concrete experi- ence of gender and relationships.
I want to take us from low-tech turkey basters to high-tech computers via this exam- ple, because I think it says something important about feminism, method, and tech- nology. One simplistic way of reading these events (and others of the late 1970s and early 1980s) is that the blunt reality of life experience interfered with an idealistic, ideo- logical kind of talkβa form of realpolitik that was also a co-optation.
I hold that it is the all at once-ness that is at the core of feminist survival, and as a consequence at the core of our relationship to science and technology. The power to hold multiple, contradictory views in a moral collective is necessary in shaping the divergence between Big Brother and a positive, cyborg-inhabited multiverse.
νλ―Έλμ¦μ΄ 볡μ‘ν νμ€κ³Ό λͺ¨μλ κ΄μ μ λμμ λ°μλ€μ΄λ λ₯λ ₯μ ν΅ν΄ μμ‘΄νκ³ λ°μ ν΄μμΌλ©°, μ΄λ¬ν λ₯λ ₯μ΄ κ³Όνκ³Ό κΈ°μ μ λ°λΌλ³΄λ λ°©μμλ μ€μνλ€. λΉ λΈλΌλμ²λΌ λ¨μΌν ν΅μ μ κ·μ¨μ λ°λ₯΄λ λμ , μ¬μ΄λ³΄κ·Έμ²λΌ 볡μ‘μ±κ³Ό λ€μμ±μ ν¬μ©νλ μ¬κ³ κ° νμν κ²μ΄λ€. λμλ€λ°μ±μ μ΄λ¬ν 볡μ‘ν λ¬Έμ λ₯Ό ν΄κ²°νλ ν΅μ¬μ μΈ λ°©λ²λ‘ μ΄λ©°, μ΄λ λ¨μν ννμ΄ μλλΌ λ³΅μ‘ν νμ€ μμμ λ€μν κ΄μ μ μμ©νλ λ₯λ ₯μ λ»νλ€.
Look also-> 'A Cyborg Manifesto' by Donna J. Haraway, 1985
"Method is a way of surviving experience"
Method is a way of surviving experience. It is a word at once stronger than paradigm, in the sense that it often crosses, both historically and spatially, most uses of the Kuhnian term. It may be part of several paradigms; it may persist after other attributes of a paradigm have fallen away.
λ°©λ²λ‘ μ μμ¬μ , 곡κ°μ λ§₯λ½μ μ΄μν΄ μ¬λ¬ ν¨λ¬λ€μμ λλλ λ€. μ¦, νλμ ν¨λ¬λ€μμ΄ λ°λκ±°λ μ¬λΌμ§λλΌλ, κ·Έ μμμ μ¬μ©λ λ°©λ²λ‘ μ μ¬μ ν λ¨μμκ³ μ μ©ν μ μλ€. μλ₯Ό λ€μ΄, κ³Όνμ μ¬κ³ μμ μ΄λ€ νΉμ ν μ΄λ‘ μ΄ ν¨λ¬λ€μμΌλ‘ λ°μλ€μ¬μ‘μ λ, κ·Έ μ΄λ‘ μ΄ λμ€μ λ²λ €μ§ μ μμ§λ§, κ·Έ μ΄λ‘ μ νꡬνλ κ³Όμ μμ μ¬μ©λ λ°©λ²λ€μ μ¬μ ν μ ν¨ν μ μλ κ²κ³Ό κ°λ€.
The geography of nature to be experienced by feminism -Subjects are cyborg : μ¬μ΄λ³΄κ·Έλ μΈκ°κ³Ό κΈ°κ³μ κ²½κ³κ° λͺ¨νΈν μ‘΄μ¬λ‘, μ λμ μ΄κ³ κ³ μ λμ§ μμ μ 체μ±μ μμ§νλ€. νλ―Έλμ¦μμ 주체λ κ³ μ λ μ±λ³, μ 체μ±μ λμ΄μλ μ‘΄μ¬λ‘μ, λ€μν μν₯μ λ°μΌλ©° λμμμ΄ λ³νν©λλ€. -Nature is Coyote : μμ°μ΄λ μΈκ°μ λ³Έμ§μ κ³ μ λ κ²μΌλ‘ λ³΄μ§ μκ³ , λ€μν κ°λ₯μ±μ μμ©νλ κ΄μ . -The geography is elsewhere : μ°λ¦¬κ° μκ³ μλ κΈ°μ‘΄μ μ§λ¦¬μ λλ μ¬νμ κ²½κ³κ° λ μ΄μ μ€μνμ§ μμΌλ©°, μλ‘μ΄ ν¨λ¬λ€μ μμμ μ°λ¦¬κ° μμΉν κ³³μ΄ λ€λ₯΄κ² ν΄μλ μ μμ.
"...Included in the cyborg image is the question: how βa fundamentally methodological question."
μ¬μ΄λ³΄κ·Έλ κ³ μ λ λ³Έμ§μ΄ μκ³ , κ²½κ³λ₯Ό λλλλ μ‘΄μ¬μ΄λ―λ‘, μ΄λ»κ² μ΄λ¬ν 볡μ‘ν νμ€μ λ°©λ²λ‘ μ μΌλ‘ λ€λ£° κ²μΈκ°
In Shulamith Reinharzβs terms, knowledge is inseparable from the process of strategic community building and understanding.
Considered formally, then, the attributes of feminist method that are particularly important are:
1. experiential and collective basis;
2. processual nature;
3. honoring contradiction and partialness;
4. situated historicity with great attention to detail and specificity;
5. the simultaneous application of all of these points.
Where should information be situated?
...It becomes new, however, when people are added as active interpreters of information, who themselves inhabit multiple contexts of use and practice. What becomes problematic under these circumstances is the relationship between people and things, or objects, the relationship that creates representations and not just noise. Information is only information when there are multiple interpretations. One personβs noise may be anotherβs signal, or two people may agree to attend to something but it is the tension between contexts that actually creates representation.
Context - Tension - Representation
μ λ³΄κ° μ‘΄μ¬νκ³ ν΄μλλ λ¬Ένμ , μ¬νμ , μμ¬μ , κ°μΈμ λ°°κ²½κ³Ό κ°μ λ€μν λ§₯λ½λ€ κ°μ μ°¨μ΄κ° κΈ΄μ₯μ λ§λ λ€. κ·Έλ¬λ μ΄ κΈ΄μ₯μ΄ λ¨μν κ°λ±μ μ΄λνλ κ²μ΄ μλλΌ, κ·Έ μμ²΄κ° μλ‘μ΄ μλ―Έλ₯Ό μ°½μ‘°νλ κ³Όμ μ΄λΌλ μ μ΄ μ€μ. μλ‘ λ€λ₯Έ λ§₯λ½μμ μ λ³΄κ° ν΄μλκ±°λ μΆ©λν λ, κ·Έ κ³Όμ μμ μλ‘μ΄ νν/μλ―Έκ° μμ±λλ€λ κ².
The expansion occurs by shifting the context in which the information resides.
κΈ΄μ₯: λ€μν κ΄μ , ν΄μ, νΉμ λ°©μλ€μ΄ μΆ©λνλ©΄μ μλ‘ μν₯μ λ―ΈμΉλ μν©. μ΄ μΆ©λμ μ 보μ λν΄ νλμ μ λμ μΈ ν΄μμ΄ μλ, μ¬λ¬ ν΄μμ΄ μ‘΄μ¬ν μ μλ€λ κ²μ μ μ λ‘ νλ©°, μ΄λ¬ν κΈ΄μ₯μ μ 보μ μλ―Έλ₯Ό νλΆνκ² λ§λ€κ³ , λ€μν κ΄μ μμ μ¬ν΄μλ μ μλ κΈ°νλ₯Ό μ 곡νλ€.
:μλ₯Ό λ€μ΄, μμ μνμ΄ μλ‘ λ€λ₯Έ μλμ λ¬Ένμμ λ€λ₯΄κ² ν΄μλ λ, μ΄ κ³Όμ μμ λ°μνλ κΈ΄μ₯μ μ’ μ’ μλ‘μ΄ ν΄μκ³Ό μλ―Έμ νμ₯μ κ°μ Έμ¨λ€. λ§μΉ νλμ λ μκ° κ³ μ λ¬Έν μνμ μλ‘μ΄ μκ°μμ ν΄μν λ, κ³Όκ±°μλ κ³ λ €λμ§ μμλ μλ‘μ΄ μλ―Έλ€μ΄ λ±μ₯νλ κ²μ²λΌ.
ννκ³Ό λ§₯λ½: κΈ΄μ₯μ κΆκ·Ήμ μΌλ‘ ννμ μ°½μ‘°νλ λ° μ€μν μν μ νλ€. ννμ΄λ νΉμ ν λ§₯λ½μμ νμ±λ μλ―Έλ μμ§μ λ§νλ©°, μ λ³΄κ° λ¨μν λ°μ΄ν°κ° μλ, κ·Έ μμμ νΉμ ν μλ―Έλ₯Ό κ°κ² λλ κ³Όμ μ μλ―Ένλ€. λ§₯λ½ κ°μ κΈ΄μ₯μ΄ μλ€λ©΄, ννμ κ³ μ λκ³ μ 체λ μλ―Έμ 머무λ₯Ό μ μμΌλ μ΄ κΈ΄μ₯μ΄ μ‘΄μ¬ν¨μΌλ‘μ¨, ννμ λ€μν λ§₯λ½μμ μλ‘κ² ν΄μλλ©°, λμ μ΄κ³ λ³ννλ μλ―Έ(i.e μΈν°λ·λ°)λ₯Ό κ°μ§κ² λλ κ².