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the emancipatory potential of technology

[...] The real emancipatory potential of technology remains unrealised. Fed by the market, its rapid growth is offset by bloat, and elegant innovation is surrendered to the buyer, whose stagnant world it decorates.

As the rate of profit continues to faceplant, capital responds to the declining…

—p.75 Salvage #5: Contractions Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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we cannot supersede capitalism at this time

[...] the goal should surely be not simply to limit the violence, or gain the right to challenge the violence, but to eradicate society’s need to discipline bodies with gender in the first place. That’s not something that can be achieved within neoliberalism, nor simply by the end of neoliberalism,…

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a world where gender no longer exists

A world where gender no longer exists, or at least where the rigidity of gender is no longer used to exert violence and power, is a feature for our liberatory dream. Post-genderism has been explored as a political goal, in various guises, including by the xenofeminists of laboriacuboniks.net, by fe…

—p.71 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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a world where gender no longer exists

A world where gender no longer exists, or at least where the rigidity of gender is no longer used to exert violence and power, is a feature for our liberatory dream. Post-genderism has been explored as a political goal, in various guises, including by the xenofeminists of laboriacuboniks.net, by fe…

—p.71 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author
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the source of blame for their own precarity

Trans people are often criticised for perpetuating a concept of the gender binary. Whilst it is certainly the case that trans people, like all people, should and could be won to a project of eroding the edifice of gender, it’s difficult not to feel that there’s a problem with situating trans people…

—p.70 Making and Getting Made: Towards a Cyborg Transfeminism (61) missing author