2020 - Spiders, feminism, weaving and the web.
Posts tagged with technofeminism
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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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Online weaving simulator: Infinite Weft.
How cool is this!
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Weaving to Code, Coding to Weave.
“We knew that we could create a new conversation about tradition and technology, about recognizing activities that have historically empowered so many women and that are still doing it now, about the preservation of history from a different point of view, about storytelling. We knew that by braiding the relationship…
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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)…
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Ariadne, process, progress, and none of the above.
It’s been a lot longer since my last post than I had anticipated when starting this project; I optimistically thought I would bang out a post every other day, a slight over-estimation of my productivity. That being said, I have planned many future posts, so stay tuned, and as an…