| 'Cyber-Jouissance: A Sketch For A Politics Of Pleasure', by Irina Aristarkhova
An attempt to outline a cyberfeminist politics of pleasure based on Foucaut's "ethics of the self" and Irigaray's "ethics of sexual difference". Cyberspace can be experienced as a new "source of pleasure for and among women, as a means to share female geneaology based on embodied subjectivity". Since cyberspace, as other spaces, is built over a net of power relations, it is necessary to invent new forms of politicization in order "to create a space for a positive encounter between women as women not by nature, but by our own decision to face and think through sexual difference". Download the article.
Five interesting articles focused on cyberfeminist theory and practice written by the multidisciplinary artist Faith Wilding:
-'Where is Feminism in Cyberfeminism?'
-'Notes on the Political Condition of Cyberfeminism'
-'Monstrous Domesticity'
-'Wounded Painting / Painted Wounds'
-'Embryoworld: Metafertility and Resistant Somatics'
http://www-art.cfa.cmu.edu/www-wilding/article.html
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'The Cyborg Manifesto' by Donna Haraway
'Cyberfeminism With A Difference' by Rosi Braidotti
In this article Rosi Braidotti offers a deep analysis of the contemporary cyber imaginary from a feminist perspective, by focusing on some crucial issues: cyber-bodies and postmodern societies; socio-political representations of post-human bodies; the politics of parody; irony as a powerful feminist cultural practice; the need for new utopias. http://www.let.ruu.nl/womens_studies/rosi/braidot1.htm
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