Reinventing cyberfeminism

Cyberfeminism and the New Biology

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2159304
AutoresSarah Kember
Año2002
Volumen31
Número4
Páginas626-641
Fecha de publicación2002-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/0308514022000020724
OpenAlexW2077999680
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas4

This article argues for the reinvention of cyberfeminism in the context of the convergence between biology and computer science. Initially a response to cyberpunk and the colonization of the new final frontier by cyberspace cowboys, cyberfeminism was always already more than the essentialist and apocalyptic versions which gained popular appeal during the 1990s. Donna Haraway's more strategic cyberfeminism is articulated in relation to biotechnology and her conviction that biology – in its symbiotic relation with information systems – is an increasingly hegemonic discourse. The new biology extends its influence from health and food industries to environmentalism, management and intellectual property law and it is subsuming theories of life, mind and culture such as artificial life and evolutionary psychology. Through an analysis of these neo-biological discourses, I argue for a renewed cyberfeminist engagement with biology which does not rehearse familiar oppositional arguments but which recognizes that biology itself is a complex and by no means unified field

Biology · Context (archaeology · Cyberspace · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Essentialism · Relation (database · Sociology · The Internet · Anthropology · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations · Philosophy