Skip to content

Commit 82630cb

Browse files
committed
Adding the cybertwee manifesto - this is version 0.7
1 parent edc9b67 commit 82630cb

12 files changed

+380
-11
lines changed

content/manifestos/1974-computer-lib.md

Lines changed: 2 additions & 1 deletion
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -24,5 +24,6 @@ I am not a skillful programmer, hands-on person or eminent professional; I am ju
2424

2525
I am "publishing" this book myself, in this first draft form, to test its viability, to see how mad the computer people get, and to see if there is as much hunger to understand computers, among all you Folks Out There, as I Ihink. I will be interested to receive corrections and suggestions for subsequent editions, if any. (The computer field is its own exploding universe, so I'll worry about up-to-dateness at that time.)
2626

27+
---
2728

28-
Nelson, Theodor. 1974. Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now; Dream Machines: New Freedoms Through Computer Screens— A Minority Report. Self-published. ISBN 0-89347-002-3.
29+
Nelson, Theodor. 1974. *Computer Lib: You Can and Must Understand Computers Now; Dream Machines: New Freedoms Through Computer Screens— A Minority Report.* Self-published. ISBN 0-89347-002-3.

content/manifestos/1991-cyberfeminist.txt renamed to content/manifestos/1991-cyberfeminist.md

Lines changed: 2 additions & 0 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ corrupting the discourse
3434

3535
we are the future cunt
3636

37+
![Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century](../content/manifestos-img/1991-cyberfeminist.jpg)
38+
3739
---
3840

3941
Manifesto first declared by VNS Matrix

content/manifestos/2013-09-EPP-manifesto.txt renamed to content/manifestos/2013-09-EPP-manifesto.md

Lines changed: 1 addition & 1 deletion
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -68,5 +68,5 @@ The Manifesto of the European Pirate Party (PPEU) was finalized during a worksho
6868

6969
## Sources:
7070

71-
- \url{http://piratetimes.net/here-comes-the-european-pirate-party/} - August 18, 2013
71+
- http://piratetimes.net/here-comes-the-european-pirate-party/ - August 18, 2013
7272
- \url{http://ppeu.net/wiki/doku.php?id=statutes:manifesto} - Last modified: 2013/09/03
Lines changed: 23 additions & 0 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
1+
# the cybertwee manifesto
2+
3+
the singularity is dear.
4+
5+
far too long have we succum to bitter edge of the idea that power is lost in the sweet and tender.
6+
7+
romantic is not weak. feminine is not weak. cute is not weak. we are fragmented and multifaceted bbs.
8+
9+
lack of emotion is oft favored because success is defined as the ability to be mechanical and efficient but sentimentality, empathy, and being too soft should not be seen as weaknesses.
10+
11+
we see the limitations of corporeality, as solipsists, we know that the body is the original prosthesis for operating in this universe. we know the body illusory, we curate our candy our sucre sickly sweet is intentional.
12+
13+
our nectar is not just a lure
14+
or a trap for passing flies
15+
but a self indulgent intrapersonal biofeedback mechanism spelled in emoji and gentle selfies.
16+
17+
![the cybertwee manifesto](../content/manifestos-img/2014-cybertwee-manifesto.gif)
18+
19+
---
20+
21+
source: cybertwee.net / https://youtu.be/xMdiSUIpg50
22+
date: October 2014
23+
cybertwee is an arts collective co-founded in 2014 by artists gabriella hileman, violet forest, and may waver

content/manifestos/2015-07-xenofeminism.txt

Lines changed: 3 additions & 3 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -286,7 +286,7 @@ generic, which is to say, intersectional. Intersectionality is not the
286286
morcellation of collectives into a static fuzz of cross-referenced
287287
identities, but a political orientation that slices through every
288288
particular, refusing the crass pigeonholing of bodies. This is not a
289-
universal that can be imposed from above, but built from the bottom up --
289+
universal that can be imposed from above, but built from the bottom up --
290290
or, better, laterally, opening new lines of transit across an uneven
291291
landscape. This non-absolute, generic universality must guard against the
292292
facile tendency of conflation with bloated, unmarked particulars -- namely
@@ -368,8 +368,8 @@ repressive gender regimes, generating solidarity among marginalised groups,
368368
and creating new spaces for experimentation that ignited cyberfeminism in
369369
the nineties has clearly waned in the twenty-first century. The dominance of
370370
the visual in today's online interfaces has reinstated familiar modes of
371-
identity policing, power relations and gender norms in self-representation.
372-
But this does not mean that cyberfeminist sensibilities belong to the past.
371+
identity policing, power relations and gender norms in self-representation.
372+
But this does not mean that cyberfeminist sensibilities belong to the past.
373373
Sorting the subversive possibilities from the oppressive ones latent in
374374
today's web requires a feminism sensitive to the insidious return of old
375375
power structures, yet savvy enough to know how to exploit the potential.

content/manifestos/9999-end.txt

Lines changed: 7 additions & 6 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -5,12 +5,13 @@
55
\vspace*{\fill}
66

77
Version 0.0 edited March 6-7 2015 at Fahrenheit39
8-
Version 0.1 released March 11 2015
9-
Version 0.2 released March 24 2015
10-
Version 0.3 released May 2015
11-
Version 0.4 released June 2015
12-
Version 0.5 released September 2015
13-
Version 0.6 (current) released February 2016
8+
Version 0.1 - March 11 2015
9+
Version 0.2 - March 24 2015
10+
Version 0.3 - May 2015
11+
Version 0.4 - June 2015
12+
Version 0.5 - September 2015
13+
Version 0.6 - February 14 2016
14+
Version 0.7 (current) released February 18 2016
1415

1516
Greyscale Press
1617

cover/cover-v7.pdf

363 KB
Binary file not shown.

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)