2020 - Spiders, feminism, weaving and the web.
Posts tagged with freud
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SPIDER FEMINISM - Arachne to arachnology via the web.
This is a three-part post, be warned.. Humans and spiders have a complicated relationship to say the least. As a child (ahem, and still now) I was terrified of spiders; the way they creeped, crawled, and seemed to have it in for me. As an adult, I have more of…
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Weaving and technofeminism - an overview according to Sadie Plant.
“If weaving has played such a crucial role in the history of computing, it is also the key to one of the most extraordinary sites of woman-machine interface which short-circuits their prescribed relationship and persists regardless of what man effects and defines as the history of technology.” (Plant, 2000: 331-332)…