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Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology; Issue No. 13: Radical Feminist Storytelling and Speculative Fiction: Creating new worlds by re-imagining hacking (January 2018)
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Issue edited by Sophie Toupin and spideralex
Recent Submissions
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(Fembot Collective, 2018-01)When specific intra-active technologies of ultrasound and echography violently rendered real bodies, they wondered about the see-through space-times that were left in the dark. The crystals. They read, listened and gossiped ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2018-01)This text seeks to contribute to the development of techniques for the emergence of speculative fictions around feminist imaginaries related to technology. It tries to search for mechanisms to intervene in traditional ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2018-01)This article interprets the 1979 Pakistani film Aurat Raj (Women’s Rule) as a work of feminist speculative fiction. The film presents a radically reimagined gendered world through its narrative of role reversal. Drawing ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2018-01)Work in a (feminist) hackerspace relies on the circulation of knowledge and availability of hardware. In contemporary maker scene, the majority of these resources is created in male-dominated circles and handed over to ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2018-01)Historical and literary sources suggest the possible application of fiber and textile arts for steganography. As both art and craft, the fiber arts—forms like knitting, crochet, embroidery, quilting, and others—are strongly ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2018-01)Este texto busca contribuir al desarrollo de técnicas para la emergencia de ficciones especulativas en torno a los imaginarios feministas relacionados con la tecnología. Se trata de buscar mecanismos de intervención de las ...
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Exploiting a Dystopic Future to Unsettle Our Present-Day Thinking About Sexual Violence Prevention (Fembot Collective, 2018-01)After researching 215 existing apps designed to prevent sexual violence (Bivens & Hasinoff, 2017), I propose a fictional app called ‘Ultimate Witness.’ Using ‘Protect 2 End’ software, this factory-installed app analyzes ...
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(Fembot Collective, 2018-01)While much interest in feminist technology looks to future inventions, dead or obsolete communication media, such as older smartphones, offers spaces in which to hack into effaced gendered narratives, specifically through ...