The stream inside the stream: eroding cyberfeminisms

• In Event: SpiralSpace: Atemporal Approaches to Post-Cyberfeminism

Abstract

We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. Anais Nin (1903–1977)[61]

Cyberfeminism is more of a flow than a form, exerting pressures and intensities which gives rise to diverse mutations of (cyber)feminisms. Some of these are on a line of flight towards institutional forms of academic cyberfeminism and others might form small rocky outcrops which are perpetually accreting and eroding to fall back into the stream, to spiral in exoteric time, transgenerationally, meeting other forms with every pass, joining streams, producing mutant ectogenetic offspring in a pre-temporal matrix.

Author

• Virginia Barratt, Western Sydney University