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-Upgrading intersectional feminism with -the hacker class - -2 -00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,520 -Part 1: Evolution of feminist cyborgs - -3 -00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:13,360 -"By the late twentieth century, our time, -a mythic time, we are all chimeras, - -4 -00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:19,080 -theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism — in short, cyborgs. - -5 -00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:23,240 -The cyborg is our ontology; -it gives us our politics. - -6 -00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:27,600 -The cyborg is a condensed image -of both imagination and material reality, - -7 -00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:33,200 -the two joined centers structuring any -possibility of historical transformation." - -8 -00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:35,560 -When the queen Elizabeth -of the United Kingdom - -9 -00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:40,760 -sent her first email in 1976, -there were no feminists on the internet, - -10 -00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,240 -it was just a military science project. - -11 -00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,920 -A Cyborg Manifesto is considered -the beginning of cyberfeminism - -12 -00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,800 -because Donna Haraway's position -was unique. - -13 -00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,880 -"I am conscious of the odd perspective provided by my historical position - -14 -00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,080 -a PhD in biology for an Irish Catholic girl -was made possible - -15 -00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,760 -by Sputnik’s impact -on U.S. national science-education policy. - -16 -00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,560 -I have a body and mind as much constructed - -17 -00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,600 -by the post–Second World War arms race and Cold War - -18 -00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,240 -as by the women’s movements. - -19 -00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,000 -There are more grounds for hope -in focusing on the contradictory effects - -20 -00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,400 - of politics designed to -produce loyal American technocrats, - -21 -00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,680 -which also produced -large numbers of dissidents, - -22 -00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,640 - than in focusing -on the present defeats." - -23 -00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:38,880 -A Cyborg Manifesto was published in the Socialist Review magazine in 1985. - -24 -00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,360 -Only 2000 hosts were connected to the internet - -25 -00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,920 -and they were limited to a military, administrative and academic elite, - -26 -00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,080 -predominantly bourgeois white cis men. - -27 -00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,480 -Apple was already marketing itself -as the freedom warrior - -28 -00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,720 -with an expensive commercial directed by Ridley Scott, - -29 -00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:08,720 -aired during Super Bowl 1984 with an Orwellian theme. - -30 -00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:12,400 -"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, - -31 -00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,760 -is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, - -32 -00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,240 -not to mention state socialism. - -33 -00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,240 -But illegitimate offspring are often -exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. - -34 -00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,360 -Their fathers, after all, -are inessential." - -35 -00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:32,600 -Just when capitalism declared its global victory and the "end of history" in 1991, - -36 -00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,000 -the internet was made available -to the general public as World Wide Web. - -37 -00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,280 -That year Judy Wajcman wrote -"Feminism confronts technology" - -38 -00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,280 -and VNS Matrix, -the first cyberfeminist collective was founded - -39 -00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,680 -who published "a cyberfeminist manifesto -for the 21st century" that claimed: - -40 -00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,200 -"we are the virus of the new world disorder - -41 -00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,320 -rupturing the symbolic from within - -42 -00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,200 -saboteurs of big daddy mainframe - -43 -00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,200 -the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix - -44 -00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,000 -the VNS MATRIX -terminators of the moral codes - -45 -00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,760 -mercenaries of slime" - -46 -00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,520 -Around the same time - -47 -00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:17,320 -Sandy Stone wrote "Will the real -body please stand up?" - -48 -00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,920 -emphasizing the realness of "virtual reality" -and how the internet facilitates - -49 -00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,160 -crossing over borders of gender -and other socially structured identities. - -50 -00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,480 -She says: "My interest in cyberspace -is primarily about communities - -51 -00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:33,840 -and how they work." - -52 -00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,480 -Cyberfeminist communities were blooming on the web with radical ideas - -53 -00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,000 -but websites were still static - -54 -00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,920 -and internet users were less than 0.5% of the world population until 1995, - -55 -00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,880 -when Bill Gates was already the richest person on the world. - -56 -00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,840 -Carmen Hermosillo fue una de las primeras adeptas de las comunidades del ciberespacio - -57 -00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,080 -"Está de moda sugerir" escribió - -58 -00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,920 -"que el ciberespacio es un tipo de isla de los benditos - -59 -00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,480 -donde la gente es libre de expresar y entregarse a su individualidad. - -60 -00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,520 -Esto no es cierto. - -61 -00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:20,720 -He visto mucha gente exponer -sus emociones, sus entrañas online - -62 -00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,520 -y yo misme lo hice hasta que vi me había mercantilizado a mi misme." - -63 -00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,600 -At the beginning -of the new millennium - -64 -00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,360 -with 5% of the world population connected -to the net, Darcy DiNucci introduced - -65 -00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,400 -the Web 2.0: - -66 -00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,800 -"The Web will be understood -not as screenfuls of text and graphics but - -67 -00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:45,160 -as a transport mechanism, the ether -through which interactivity happens. - -68 -00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,520 -It will [...] appear on your computer -screen, [...] on your TV set [...] - -69 -00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,200 -your car dashboard [...] your cell phone -[...] hand-held game machines [...] - -70 -00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,080 -maybe even your microwave oven." - -71 -00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,160 -Ahora, con la fibra óptica conectada directamente a tu casa - -72 -00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,760 -suponiendo que cuando llegue al poste de teléfono no vuelve a ser cableado, - -73 -00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,440 -sino que sigue siendo fibra, - -74 -00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:15,040 -puedes hacer cosas como descargarte una película entera en unos minutos, - -75 -00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,760 -cosas de este tipo. - -76 -00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:22,800 -Todas tus comunicaciones vendran -en formato tcp/ip, - -77 -00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,640 -lo que significa que serán todas digitales, serán todas paquetes de datos - -78 -00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,400 -serán todas conmutables. - -79 -00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:37,520 -Y podrían ser televisión, radio, ordenador, teléfono y cualquier tipo de comunicación - -80 -00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,520 -vendría en forma de paquetes, -paquetes tcp/ip. - -81 -00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,080 -Probablemente tardará entre 10 y 20 años -a desarrollarse - -82 -00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:53,000 -pero ya está siendo desarrollado con éxito en pruebas de mercado. - -83 -00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,640 -A mi me gusta, -pero eso no quiere decir nada. - -84 -00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,800 -Blogs and microblogs gradually spread among cyberfeminists - -85 -00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,600 -and signalled the next era. - -86 -00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,920 -Tarana Burke started Me Too -on Myspace in 2006 - -87 -00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,200 -but it took some time before it caught on. - -88 -00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:17,440 -Sheryl Sandberg leaned in to become -"the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism" - -89 -00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,160 - first by building the business model of Google, - -90 -00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,800 -then moving on to become the Chief -Operating Officer of Facebook. - -91 -00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:31,240 -In 2021, internet penetration rate, the industry jargon for internet access, - -92 -00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,280 -is at 65 percent of the world population. - -93 -00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:38,760 -In Europe, North America and Japan it's -around 90 percent. - -94 -00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,560 -To understand Donna Haraway's words - -95 -00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:47,000 -"Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert" - -96 -00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,480 -we just have to look up from our smartphones - -97 -00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,000 -and see that everyone else is also looking at their smartphones. - -98 -00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,480 -Even the people who still don't have internet access are ruled by the internet. - -99 -00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,760 -No organism is left free from cybernetics, - -100 -00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,680 -the science of command -and control through communication. - -101 -00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:15,080 -We are all cyborgs even if we -don't want it or don't even know about it. - -102 -00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,960 -“Just as political economy produced a homo economicus - -103 -00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,320 -manageable in the framework -of industrial states, - -104 -00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,680 -cybernetics is producing its -own humanity… - -105 -00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,760 -Political economy reigned over beings by leaving them free to pursue their interest; - -106 -00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,600 -cybernetics controls them by leaving them free to communicate… - -107 -00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,720 -The stated ambition of cybernetics -is to manage the unforeseeable, - -108 -00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,160 -and to govern the ungovernable instead of trying to destroy it.” - -109 -00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,720 -As internet becomes omnipresent with smartphones and social media, - -110 -00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,680 -popularity of political movements are increasingly dependent on - -111 -00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,160 -their online presence and activity. - -112 -00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,560 -Accordingly, feminism is growing, - -113 -00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,800 -accelerated by new communication technologies. - -114 -00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,760 -This is not to say feminists -are stuck online. - -115 -00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,840 -From Rojava to Mexico, -we are as militant as ever. - -116 -00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,800 -Transnational feminist strikes have been bringing millions of people into the streets - -117 -00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:21,760 -and this would have been much harder to organize without the latest technology. - -118 -00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,960 -On 25 November 2019, a feminist collective -from Chile, Las Tesis, - -119 -00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:32,520 -shared their artistic protest performance -“A rapist in your path” on social media. - -120 -00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,640 -Within days, the performance with its full choreography and lyrics - -121 -00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,840 -was reproduced away from keyboard -by feminists all over the world. - -122 -00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:48,240 -Feminists in Turkey were -violently detained by police for performing it, - -123 -00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,400 -which prompted women members of parliament from oppositionary parties - -124 -00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,640 - to perform it in the Parliament of Turkey. - -125 -00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:59,280 -This level of embodied memeification -was unprecedented. - -126 -00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:05,920 -With this perspective, even what is called “hashtag feminism” like #MeToo - -127 -00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,560 -can’t be seen as a solely online phenomenon, - -128 -00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,960 -because its causes and consequences are away from keyboard. - -129 -00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:19,000 -In truth, it's very hard to tell the difference between online and offline - -130 -00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,480 -since the spread of mobile internet. - -131 -00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,320 -If the biggest problem of cyberfeminism -in the beginning, was access, - -132 -00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,680 -the critical problem of contemporary cyberfeminism is control. - -133 -00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,560 -Today most feminists have access -to the internet - -134 -00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:42,040 -and rely on it heavily for feminist activism but very few among us know about - -135 -00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:46,800 -how the technology and the political -economy behind it actually works. - -136 -00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:53,200 -And more so since the pandemic, if you want to be active in the feminist movement - -137 -00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,960 -you will probably be required to use proprietary software - -138 -00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,920 -for social media, video chats, cloud storages, etc. - -139 -00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,800 -You may be disqualified -from participating in assemblies - -140 -00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,320 -if you refuse to use -google forms and zoom. - -141 -00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,400 -You may be left out of organizations - -142 -00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,840 -if you refuse to use -whatsapp, telegram and google drive. - -143 -00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,840 -You're voice may not be heard -or considered relevant - -144 -00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,520 -if you refuse to use instagram, twitter and youtube. - -145 -00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,000 -You may be perceived as a killjoy within feminism - -146 -00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,360 -if you refuse to use any of these apps - -147 -00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,960 -because they're not just considered practical -but also "free". - -148 -00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:36,640 -But these supposedly free apps are making the richest white cis men inordinately richer - -149 -00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,560 -and disproportionately powerful - -150 -00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,200 -(like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, -Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) - -151 -00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,520 -because they get something more valuable -than money from us. - -152 -00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:57,320 -They get to own all the information we produce which they use against us - -153 -00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:02,400 -with increasing accuracy for the purposes of advertising, surveillance, - -154 -00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:07,360 -perception management and psychological warfare that aims for total domination. - -155 -00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,720 -Shosana Zuboff calls this -system surveillance capitalism - -156 -00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,440 -but it's worse than surveillance -and worse than capitalism. - -157 -00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:21,480 -Alice Walker, who coined -the term "womanism" says: - -158 -00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,280 -"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." - -159 -00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,480 -Every day we give our information -in return for a service marketed as free, - -160 -00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,400 -without thinking that we -are giving up a power we have. - -161 -00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,080 -The power we give up is used against -us and it works. - -162 -00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:44,360 -In fact, even Alice Walker is not immune to racist propaganda from artificial intelligence - -163 -00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,040 -as she unironically explains -in one of her poems, - -164 -00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:52,000 -how she was persuaded to antisemitic conspiracy theories: - -165 -00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:54,640 -"Where to start? -You will find -some information, - -166 -00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,600 -"Where to start? -You will find -some information, - -167 -00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,720 -Slanted, -unfortunately, - -168 -00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,680 -By Googling. - -169 -00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:03,320 -For a more in depth study - -170 -00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,760 -I recommend starting with YouTube. - -171 -00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,680 -Simply follow the trail show of -“The Talmud” as its poison winds its way - -172 -00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,880 -Into our collective consciousness." - -173 -00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,240 -This way of using Youtube -for reactionary endoctrination - -174 -00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:26,600 -is called "redpilling" -among altright antifeminists, - -175 -00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,800 - even the concept itself is a cisheteropatriarchal appropriation of the - -176 -00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,200 -work of trans sisters -who wrote and directed the Matrix. - -177 -00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,680 -If the founder of womanism -can be redpilled by youtube autoplay, - -178 -00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:45,920 -it must not have been very hard -for companies like Cambridge Analytica - -179 -00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,520 -to use the Artificial Intelligence of Facebook -to hack elections - -180 -00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,520 -and raise neofascism around the world. - -181 -00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,920 -La psicografía. -Es un conocimiento de tu personalidad. - -182 -00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,680 -Porque es la personalidad la que dirige el comportamiento - -183 -00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:02,880 -y el comportamiento obviamente influye como votas. - -184 -00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,040 -To date, many studies prove that - -185 -00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:12,120 -the artificial intelligences of big corporations are classist, racist and sexist, - -186 -00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,280 -there's even documentaries about it on Netflix. - -187 -00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:23,960 -At the same time they also fuel reactionary trends within feminism, like transphobia - -188 -00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,240 -and whorephobia because social -media algorithms - -189 -00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:34,040 -consider inflammatory speech to be -engaging, therefore profitable. - -190 -00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,200 -Our attention spans are colonized and exploited by this new political economy. - -191 -00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,880 -This can’t go without questioning -by feminists - -192 -00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:48,080 -or anyone who positions themselves against systems of domination. - -193 -00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,040 -Audre Lorde's powerful essay - -194 -00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,560 -"The master’s tools will never -dismantle the master’s house" - -195 -00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:57,400 -about racism within the feminist movement, can also be applied - -196 -00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,400 -to other forms of intersecting oppressions that we have internalized, - -197 -00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,240 -like our relationship with technology. - -198 -00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:09,760 -Interestingly, Xenofeminist Lucca Fraser had challenged what Lorde said - -199 -00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,880 -by claiming that "the masters tools -can indeed dismantle the master’s house - -200 -00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,360 -because they can be hacked." - -201 -00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,160 -I disagree with Fraser’s reversal - -202 -00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,800 -because while you may well hack the master’s tools, - -203 -00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,880 -they could still belong to and benefit -the master. - -204 -00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:31,280 -"Let's acknowledge that the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. - -205 -00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,400 -The very technologies that was -reason to dream - -206 -00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,240 -of new forms of political empowerment - -207 -00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,120 -has turned out to be the means of surveillance and control for everybody." - -208 -00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,920 -Even the first social use of telephone was a hack by housewives - -209 -00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,920 -as mentioned by Judy Wajcman. - -210 -00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,920 -We have hacked the tools of the master -to near perfection - -211 -00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,000 -but it seems like we are hacking in -the dark without consciousness. - -212 -00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,080 -We are winning battles but losing the war. - -213 -00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,880 -As Audre Lorde said: - -214 -00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,920 -"They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, - -215 -00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:07,400 -but they will never enable us -to bring about genuine change." - -216 -00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,400 -To bring about genuine change and realize the revolutionary potential of hacking - -217 -00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,480 -we have to demystify what hacking means. +1 +00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:03,720 +Upgrading intersectional feminism with +the hacker class + +2 +00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,520 +Part 1: Evolution of feminist cyborgs + +3 +00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:13,360 +"By the late twentieth century, our time, +a mythic time, we are all chimeras, + +4 +00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:19,080 +theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism — in short, cyborgs. + +5 +00:00:19,080 --> 00:00:23,240 +The cyborg is our ontology; +it gives us our politics. + +6 +00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:27,600 +The cyborg is a condensed image +of both imagination and material reality, + +7 +00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:33,200 +the two joined centers structuring any +possibility of historical transformation." + +8 +00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:35,560 +When the queen Elizabeth +of the United Kingdom + +9 +00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:40,760 +sent her first email in 1976, +there were no feminists on the internet, + +10 +00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,240 +it was just a military science project. + +11 +00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,920 +A Cyborg Manifesto is considered +the beginning of cyberfeminism + +12 +00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,800 +because Donna Haraway's position +was unique. + +13 +00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,880 +"I am conscious of the odd perspective provided by my historical position + +14 +00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,080 +a PhD in biology for an Irish Catholic girl +was made possible + +15 +00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,760 +by Sputnik’s impact +on U.S. national science-education policy. + +16 +00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,560 +I have a body and mind as much constructed + +17 +00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,600 +by the post–Second World War arms race and Cold War + +18 +00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,240 +as by the women’s movements. + +19 +00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,000 +There are more grounds for hope +in focusing on the contradictory effects + +20 +00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,400 + of politics designed to +produce loyal American technocrats, + +21 +00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,680 +which also produced +large numbers of dissidents, + +22 +00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,640 + than in focusing +on the present defeats." + +23 +00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:38,880 +A Cyborg Manifesto was published in the Socialist Review magazine in 1985. + +24 +00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,360 +Only 2000 hosts were connected to the internet + +25 +00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,920 +and they were limited to a military, administrative and academic elite, + +26 +00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,080 +predominantly bourgeois white cis men. + +27 +00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,480 +Apple was already marketing itself +as the freedom warrior + +28 +00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,720 +with an expensive commercial directed by Ridley Scott, + +29 +00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:08,720 +aired during Super Bowl 1984 with an Orwellian theme. + +30 +00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:12,400 +"The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, + +31 +00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,760 +is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, + +32 +00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,240 +not to mention state socialism. + +33 +00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,240 +But illegitimate offspring are often +exceedingly unfaithful to their origins. + +34 +00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,360 +Their fathers, after all, +are inessential." + +35 +00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:32,600 +Just when capitalism declared its global victory and the "end of history" in 1991, + +36 +00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,000 +the internet was made available +to the general public as World Wide Web. + +37 +00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,280 +That year Judy Wajcman wrote +"Feminism confronts technology" + +38 +00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,280 +and VNS Matrix, +the first cyberfeminist collective was founded + +39 +00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,680 +who published "a cyberfeminist manifesto +for the 21st century" that claimed: + +40 +00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,200 +"we are the virus of the new world disorder + +41 +00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,320 +rupturing the symbolic from within + +42 +00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,200 +saboteurs of big daddy mainframe + +43 +00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,200 +the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix + +44 +00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,000 +the VNS MATRIX +terminators of the moral codes + +45 +00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,760 +mercenaries of slime" + +46 +00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,520 +Around the same time + +47 +00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:17,320 +Sandy Stone wrote "Will the real +body please stand up?" + +48 +00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,920 +emphasizing the realness of "virtual reality" +and how the internet facilitates + +49 +00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,160 +crossing over borders of gender +and other socially structured identities. + +50 +00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,480 +She says: "My interest in cyberspace +is primarily about communities + +51 +00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:33,840 +and how they work." + +52 +00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,480 +Cyberfeminist communities were blooming on the web with radical ideas + +53 +00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,000 +but websites were still static + +54 +00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,920 +and internet users were less than 0.5% of the world population until 1995, + +55 +00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,880 +when Bill Gates was already the richest person on the world. + +56 +00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,840 +Carmen Hermosillo was one of the first adepts of the cyberspace communities + +57 +00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,080 +"It is fashionable to suggest" she wrote + +58 +00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,920 +"that cyberspace is some kind of blessed island + +59 +00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,480 +where people are free to express and lay down their individuality. + +60 +00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,520 +It is not necessarily so. + +61 +00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:20,720 +I saw many people expose +their emotions, their insides online + +62 +00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,520 +And I myself have done it until I saw I had merchandised my own self." + +63 +00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,600 +At the beginning +of the new millennium + +64 +00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,360 +with 5% of the world population connected +to the net, Darcy DiNucci introduced + +65 +00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,400 +the Web 2.0: + +66 +00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,800 +"The Web will be understood +not as screenfuls of text and graphics but + +67 +00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:45,160 +as a transport mechanism, the ether +through which interactivity happens. + +68 +00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,520 +It will [...] appear on your computer +screen, [...] on your TV set [...] + +69 +00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,200 +your car dashboard [...] your cell phone +[...] hand-held game machines [...] + +70 +00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,080 +maybe even your microwave oven." + +71 +00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,160 +Ahora, con la fibra óptica conectada directamente a tu casa + +72 +00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,760 +suponiendo que cuando llegue al poste de teléfono no vuelve a ser cableado, + +73 +00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,440 +sino que sigue siendo fibra, + +74 +00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:15,040 +puedes hacer cosas como descargarte una película entera en unos minutos, + +75 +00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,760 +cosas de este tipo. + +76 +00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:22,800 +Todas tus comunicaciones vendran +en formato tcp/ip, + +77 +00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,640 +lo que significa que serán todas digitales, serán todas paquetes de datos + +78 +00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,400 +serán todas conmutables. + +79 +00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:37,520 +Y podrían ser televisión, radio, ordenador, teléfono y cualquier tipo de comunicación + +80 +00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,520 +vendría en forma de paquetes, +paquetes tcp/ip. + +81 +00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,080 +Probablemente tardará entre 10 y 20 años +a desarrollarse + +82 +00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:53,000 +pero ya está siendo desarrollado con éxito en pruebas de mercado. + +83 +00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,640 +A mi me gusta, +pero eso no quiere decir nada. + +84 +00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,800 +Blogs and microblogs gradually spread among cyberfeminists + +85 +00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,600 +and signalled the next era. + +86 +00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,920 +Tarana Burke started Me Too +on Myspace in 2006 + +87 +00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:12,200 +but it took some time before it caught on. + +88 +00:06:12,680 --> 00:06:17,440 +Sheryl Sandberg leaned in to become +"the Typhoid Mary of surveillance capitalism" + +89 +00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,160 + first by building the business model of Google, + +90 +00:06:20,160 --> 00:06:23,800 +then moving on to become the Chief +Operating Officer of Facebook. + +91 +00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:31,240 +In 2021, internet penetration rate, the industry jargon for internet access, + +92 +00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:34,280 +is at 65 percent of the world population. + +93 +00:06:34,280 --> 00:06:38,760 +In Europe, North America and Japan it's +around 90 percent. + +94 +00:06:39,440 --> 00:06:41,560 +To understand Donna Haraway's words + +95 +00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:47,000 +"Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert" + +96 +00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:49,480 +we just have to look up from our smartphones + +97 +00:06:49,480 --> 00:06:54,000 +and see that everyone else is also looking at their smartphones. + +98 +00:06:54,520 --> 00:06:59,480 +Even the people who still don't have internet access are ruled by the internet. + +99 +00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:03,760 +No organism is left free from cybernetics, + +100 +00:07:03,760 --> 00:07:07,680 +the science of command +and control through communication. + +101 +00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:15,080 +We are all cyborgs even if we +don't want it or don't even know about it. + +102 +00:07:15,520 --> 00:07:18,960 +“Just as political economy produced a homo economicus + +103 +00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,320 +manageable in the framework +of industrial states, + +104 +00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,680 +cybernetics is producing its +own humanity… + +105 +00:07:25,680 --> 00:07:30,760 +Political economy reigned over beings by leaving them free to pursue their interest; + +106 +00:07:30,760 --> 00:07:34,600 +cybernetics controls them by leaving them free to communicate… + +107 +00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:38,720 +The stated ambition of cybernetics +is to manage the unforeseeable, + +108 +00:07:38,720 --> 00:07:43,160 +and to govern the ungovernable instead of trying to destroy it.” + +109 +00:07:43,160 --> 00:07:47,720 +As internet becomes omnipresent with smartphones and social media, + +110 +00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:50,680 +popularity of political movements are increasingly dependent on + +111 +00:07:50,680 --> 00:07:53,160 +their online presence and activity. + +112 +00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,560 +Accordingly, feminism is growing, + +113 +00:07:56,560 --> 00:07:59,800 +accelerated by new communication technologies. + +114 +00:08:00,280 --> 00:08:04,760 +This is not to say feminists +are stuck online. + +115 +00:08:05,080 --> 00:08:08,840 +From Rojava to Mexico, +we are as militant as ever. + +116 +00:08:11,560 --> 00:08:16,800 +Transnational feminist strikes have been bringing millions of people into the streets + +117 +00:08:16,800 --> 00:08:21,760 +and this would have been much harder to organize without the latest technology. + +118 +00:08:22,600 --> 00:08:27,960 +On 25 November 2019, a feminist collective +from Chile, Las Tesis, + +119 +00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:32,520 +shared their artistic protest performance +“A rapist in your path” on social media. + +120 +00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:35,640 +Within days, the performance with its full choreography and lyrics + +121 +00:08:35,640 --> 00:08:39,840 +was reproduced away from keyboard +by feminists all over the world. + +122 +00:08:41,640 --> 00:08:48,240 +Feminists in Turkey were +violently detained by police for performing it, + +123 +00:08:48,240 --> 00:08:51,400 +which prompted women members of parliament from oppositionary parties + +124 +00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,640 + to perform it in the Parliament of Turkey. + +125 +00:08:54,560 --> 00:08:59,280 +This level of embodied memeification +was unprecedented. + +126 +00:08:59,600 --> 00:09:05,920 +With this perspective, even what is called “hashtag feminism” like #MeToo + +127 +00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:09,560 +can’t be seen as a solely online phenomenon, + +128 +00:09:09,560 --> 00:09:13,960 +because its causes and consequences are away from keyboard. + +129 +00:09:14,080 --> 00:09:19,000 +In truth, it's very hard to tell the difference between online and offline + +130 +00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,480 +since the spread of mobile internet. + +131 +00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:26,320 +If the biggest problem of cyberfeminism +in the beginning, was access, + +132 +00:09:26,320 --> 00:09:30,680 +the critical problem of contemporary cyberfeminism is control. + +133 +00:09:30,960 --> 00:09:34,560 +Today most feminists have access +to the internet + +134 +00:09:34,560 --> 00:09:42,040 +and rely on it heavily for feminist activism but very few among us know about + +135 +00:09:42,040 --> 00:09:46,800 +how the technology and the political +economy behind it actually works. + +136 +00:09:47,160 --> 00:09:53,200 +And more so since the pandemic, if you want to be active in the feminist movement + +137 +00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,960 +you will probably be required to use proprietary software + +138 +00:09:55,960 --> 00:09:59,920 +for social media, video chats, cloud storages, etc. + +139 +00:09:59,920 --> 00:10:02,800 +You may be disqualified +from participating in assemblies + +140 +00:10:02,800 --> 00:10:05,320 +if you refuse to use +google forms and zoom. + +141 +00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:08,400 +You may be left out of organizations + +142 +00:10:08,400 --> 00:10:11,840 +if you refuse to use +whatsapp, telegram and google drive. + +143 +00:10:12,000 --> 00:10:15,840 +You're voice may not be heard +or considered relevant + +144 +00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,520 +if you refuse to use instagram, twitter and youtube. + +145 +00:10:19,640 --> 00:10:23,000 +You may be perceived as a killjoy within feminism + +146 +00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:25,360 +if you refuse to use any of these apps + +147 +00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:28,960 +because they're not just considered practical +but also "free". + +148 +00:10:29,280 --> 00:10:36,640 +But these supposedly free apps are making the richest white cis men inordinately richer + +149 +00:10:36,640 --> 00:10:40,560 +and disproportionately powerful + +150 +00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,200 +(like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, +Mark Zuckerberg, etc.) + +151 +00:10:46,880 --> 00:10:51,520 +because they get something more valuable +than money from us. + +152 +00:10:51,520 --> 00:10:57,320 +They get to own all the information we produce which they use against us + +153 +00:10:57,320 --> 00:11:02,400 +with increasing accuracy for the purposes of advertising, surveillance, + +154 +00:11:02,400 --> 00:11:07,360 +perception management and psychological warfare that aims for total domination. + +155 +00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,720 +Shosana Zuboff calls this +system surveillance capitalism + +156 +00:11:11,720 --> 00:11:15,440 +but it's worse than surveillance +and worse than capitalism. + +157 +00:11:15,960 --> 00:11:21,480 +Alice Walker, who coined +the term "womanism" says: + +158 +00:11:21,880 --> 00:11:27,280 +"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any." + +159 +00:11:27,280 --> 00:11:31,480 +Every day we give our information +in return for a service marketed as free, + +160 +00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:35,400 +without thinking that we +are giving up a power we have. + +161 +00:11:35,400 --> 00:11:39,080 +The power we give up is used against +us and it works. + +162 +00:11:39,080 --> 00:11:44,360 +In fact, even Alice Walker is not immune to racist propaganda from artificial intelligence + +163 +00:11:44,360 --> 00:11:48,040 +as she unironically explains +in one of her poems, + +164 +00:11:48,040 --> 00:11:52,000 +how she was persuaded to antisemitic conspiracy theories: + +165 +00:11:52,960 --> 00:11:54,640 +"Where to start? +You will find +some information, + +166 +00:11:54,640 --> 00:11:56,600 +"Where to start? +You will find +some information, + +167 +00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,720 +Slanted, +unfortunately, + +168 +00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,680 +By Googling. + +169 +00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:03,320 +For a more in depth study + +170 +00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,760 +I recommend starting with YouTube. + +171 +00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,680 +Simply follow the trail show of +“The Talmud” as its poison winds its way + +172 +00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,880 +Into our collective consciousness." + +173 +00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,240 +This way of using Youtube +for reactionary endoctrination + +174 +00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:26,600 +is called "redpilling" +among altright antifeminists, + +175 +00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,800 + even the concept itself is a cisheteropatriarchal appropriation of the + +176 +00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,200 +work of trans sisters +who wrote and directed the Matrix. + +177 +00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,680 +If the founder of womanism +can be redpilled by youtube autoplay, + +178 +00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:45,920 +it must not have been very hard +for companies like Cambridge Analytica + +179 +00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,520 +to use the Artificial Intelligence of Facebook +to hack elections + +180 +00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,520 +and raise neofascism around the world. + +181 +00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,920 +La psicografía. +Es un conocimiento de tu personalidad. + +182 +00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,680 +Porque es la personalidad la que dirige el comportamiento + +183 +00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:02,880 +y el comportamiento obviamente influye como votas. + +184 +00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,040 +To date, many studies prove that + +185 +00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:12,120 +the artificial intelligences of big corporations are classist, racist and sexist, + +186 +00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,280 +there's even documentaries about it on Netflix. + +187 +00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:23,960 +At the same time they also fuel reactionary trends within feminism, like transphobia + +188 +00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,240 +and whorephobia because social +media algorithms + +189 +00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:34,040 +consider inflammatory speech to be +engaging, therefore profitable. + +190 +00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,200 +Our attention spans are colonized and exploited by this new political economy. + +191 +00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,880 +This can’t go without questioning +by feminists + +192 +00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:48,080 +or anyone who positions themselves against systems of domination. + +193 +00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,040 +Audre Lorde's powerful essay + +194 +00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,560 +"The master’s tools will never +dismantle the master’s house" + +195 +00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:57,400 +about racism within the feminist movement, can also be applied + +196 +00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,400 +to other forms of intersecting oppressions that we have internalized, + +197 +00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,240 +like our relationship with technology. + +198 +00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:09,760 +Interestingly, Xenofeminist Lucca Fraser had challenged what Lorde said + +199 +00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,880 +by claiming that "the masters tools +can indeed dismantle the master’s house + +200 +00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,360 +because they can be hacked." + +201 +00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,160 +I disagree with Fraser’s reversal + +202 +00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,800 +because while you may well hack the master’s tools, + +203 +00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,880 +they could still belong to and benefit +the master. + +204 +00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:31,280 +"Let's acknowledge that the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. + +205 +00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,400 +The very technologies that was +reason to dream + +206 +00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,240 +of new forms of political empowerment + +207 +00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,120 +has turned out to be the means of surveillance and control for everybody." + +208 +00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,920 +Even the first social use of telephone was a hack by housewives + +209 +00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,920 +as mentioned by Judy Wajcman. + +210 +00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,920 +We have hacked the tools of the master +to near perfection + +211 +00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,000 +but it seems like we are hacking in +the dark without consciousness. + +212 +00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,080 +We are winning battles but losing the war. + +213 +00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,880 +As Audre Lorde said: + +214 +00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,920 +"They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, + +215 +00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:07,400 +but they will never enable us +to bring about genuine change." + +216 +00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,400 +To bring about genuine change and realize the revolutionary potential of hacking + +217 +00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,480 +we have to demystify what hacking means.