A Manifesto for the Broken Machine

Bibliographic Data

ID11660339
AuthorsSarah Sharma (0009-0006-0619-5410, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume35
Issue2
Pages171-179
Publication date2020-09-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCamera Obscura Feminism Culture and Media Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0270-5346 • E-ISSN: 1529-1510
PublisherDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/02705346-8359652
OpenAlexW3088479061
LanguageEN
Citations received12

This article reveals how conservative and alt-right understandings of technology are inextricably tied to how these ideologies conceptualize gender, race, and other forms of social difference. Feminists, the gender nonconforming, queer, nonwhite, and the rest of the non-abiding are cast off as broken technologies that need to be replaced and discarded. Using a techno-feminist approach, this article argues that rather than seek justice through inclusion or improvements in representation, there is a feminist politics up for grabs in this patriarchal formulation of feminists as broken machines. The piece offers a manifesto for the “Broken Machine,” revealing how power operates with a machinelike quality and can therefore offer feminism the possibility to refuse via the disruptive logics of broken technologies

Feminism · Ideology · Inclusion (mineral · Manifesto · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Queer · Race (biology · Representation (politics · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Youth Education and Societal Dynamics

Tools

Open DOI