Virtual Representations: A Somatechnical Politics of Sexual Difference
| Autor: | Peta Hinton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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Sociology and Political Science
media_common.quotation_subject Posthuman Human Factors and Ergonomics Context (language use) Gender studies Representation (arts) Feminism Human-Computer Interaction Politics Techne Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Aesthetics Reading (process) Virtuality (gaming) Sociology Anatomy Law media_common |
| Zdroj: | Somatechnics. 4:53-75 |
| ISSN: | 2044-0146 2044-0138 |
| DOI: | 10.3366/soma.2014.0112 |
| Popis: | As Ulrika Dahl and Jenny Sunden point out in a recent issue of the Somatechnics journal, somatechnical explorations of bodies and techne continue a longer feminist dialogue with technologies as spaces for political intervention. The initial reception of the internet provides one such example of this somatechnical genealogy. An area of feminism interested in the new digital technologies and virtual reality found it to be a provocative context for reconsidering assumptions surrounding technology and its relationship with humans, their bodies, and their subjectivities. However, the way cyberfeminist debates took up with the nature of the incorporeal, underscored by a particular reading of sexual difference, potentially compromised the full impact of what their reconfiguring of virtuality, representation and the human might achieve. Critically addressing essays by Zoë Sophia, Sadie Plant, and Kim Toffoletti, three scholars engaged in varying ways with the question of difference and virtuality, this paper's task is twofold: to underline the conceptual commitments informing the politics of difference that is advanced in these accounts; and to engage in a line of discussion opened in contemporary somatechnical analyses, to suggest that in Toffoletti's figure of the posthuman we also find a reading of difference that disturbs and makes possible a somatechnical politics of sexual difference that elides any capacity for fixity or closure of its terms. |
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