Gender and Technoscience

Per una teoria del cyberfemminismo oggi. Dall'utopia tecnoscientifica alla critica situata del cyberspazio

by Federica Timeto

Studi Culturali, n. 3, dicembre 2009, pp. 453-478

La nozione di tecnosocialità elaborata nell’ambito dei social studies of technology (STS),  e ampiamente... more La nozione di tecnosocialità elaborata nell’ambito dei social studies of technology (STS),  e ampiamente dibattuta all’interno della riflessione tecnofemminista, porta in primo piano la costruzione sociale del genere e della tecnologia, e la necessità di considerare congiuntamente le tecnologie di genere e l’ingenerarsi delle tecnologie. Questo saggio analizza l’apporto teorico e pratico del cyberfemminismo al dibattito, analizzando la fase utopica e quella critica del cyberfemminismo per soffermarsi sull’incontro fra il cyberfemminismo, il pensiero postcoloniale e il femminismo transculturale. Ritornando alla radice politica del pensiero di Donna Haraway sul cyborg e sui saperi situati, il cyberfemminismo situato e transculturale recupera la dimensione incarnata delle nuove tecnologie, e adopera e analizza le nuove tecnologie di informazione e comunicazione considerandone gli effetti materiali e simbolici in relazione alle dinamiche della produzione e del consumo, della collocazione e della mobilità, per rivendicare un agire femminista che scaturisce dai contesti e dalle storie in cui l’intreccio fra corpi e tecnologie fa differenza.

Keywords: ICTs - cyberfemminismo - Donna Haraway - studi postcoloniali - femminismo transculturale

Unmasking the Theatre of Technoscience: The cyberfeminist performances of subRosa

by Federica Timeto

Feminist Media Studies, Volume 10, Issue 2 June 2010 , pages 244-248

Framed by the work of Haraway and her work on technobiopower, Timeto approaches the subRosa group as exemplar of the... more Framed by the work of Haraway and her work on technobiopower, Timeto approaches the subRosa group as exemplar of the relationship between second wave feminist art and rethinking strategies of feminist performance/intervention through a transnational lens that incorporates technoscience. As Timeto writes, “In the participatory art of subRosa, the performances of technobiopower are
restaged and deconstructed to reveal their linkages with the performances of everyday life.”

Diffracting the Rays of Technoscience

by Federica Timeto

published in "Poiesis and Praxis", Springer Verlag, 8, 2011, pp. 151-167.

A Techno-Passion that is Not One: Rethinking Marginality, Exclusion, and Difference

by Linda Vigdor

Contemporary portrayals of the gender-computing relationship are limited in their perceptions and constructs.... more Contemporary portrayals of the gender-computing relationship are limited in their perceptions and constructs. Dependent on overly generalized subjects (girls and women not much interested in computing) and a singular and all-consuming notion of what constitutes a passion for technology, girls and women are cast as uninterested bystanders or moral critics of computing. To varying degrees, girls’ and women’s disinterest is explained as an outcome of their techno-passion gap. Highlighting three women digital artists’ technology stories, I develop an alternative story that plays out in the marginal spaces of artists’ practices, performances, and reflective marginality. I begin with a broad and brief overview of three common gender-technology stories and elucidate some of their limitations. My focus turns to a mainstreamed educational and popular narrative that ‘girls and women just aren’t that into computing’. I argue for an alternate story that finds value in marginality and a web of ambivalent passions and ethical commitments that drive an artist’s interests in technology.