SpiralSpace: Atemporal Approaches to Post-Cyberfeminism

Session Submission Type: Traditional (Closed) Panel

Abstract

[F]or mutants there can no longer be any Last Judgement, or the resurrection of the body, for what body will one resurrect?
--Baudrillard

If cyberfeminism is a radically ‘mutant’ feminism, can it ever be truly obsolesced? What does it mean to invoke a ‘post-cyberfeminism’? This panel will interrogate the temporal presuppositions behind the academic term ‘post-cyberfeminism’, and attempt to offer alternative means of thinking a cyber/techno/xeno -feminist relation to time through technologies of weaving, folding, knotwork and looping, patchwork, prophecy, and infection.

The panel will comprise 5 panellists presenting 3 papers from Amy Ireland, Alice Farmer and Virginia Barratt and one poetic/codeworked piece from Linda Dement in response to the provocation “spiral space: atemporal approaches to post-cyberfeminism”. Francesca da Rimini will act as reflectant in the spirit of Zenitizma.

Sub Unit

• Closed Panels

Chairs

• Sally Olds, University of Melbourne

• Emma Black, University of Queensland

• Thao Phan, University of Melbourne, Australia

Discussant

• Francesca Da Rimini, University of Technology Sydney

Individual Presentations

• Scrap Metal and Fabric: Weaving as Temporal Technology - Amy Ireland, University of New South Wales

• Retro Chronomancy: Eschewing the Linear Temporal - Alice Farmer, New Centre for Research And Practice

• The stream inside the stream: eroding cyberfeminisms - Virginia Barratt, Western Sydney University

• Codeworked poetry - Linda Dement, Artist

Session Organizers

• Thao Phan, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Sally Olds, University of Melbourne

• Emma Black, University of Queensland