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+ci da(?) la nostra politica. + +6 +00:00:23,240 --> 00:00:27,600 +É una immagine condensata di immaginazione e realtà materiale, + +7 +00:00:27,600 --> 00:00:33,200 +ambi i centri(?) uniti strutturano qualsiasi possibilità di trasformazione storica." + +8 +00:00:33,480 --> 00:00:35,560 +Quando la regina elisabetta del regno unito + +9 +00:00:35,560 --> 00:00:40,760 +invio la sua prima email nel 1976, +non c'erano femministe nell'internet, + +10 +00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,240 +che era basicamente un progetto scientifico militare. + +11 +00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:48,920 +Il manifesto cyborg é considerato +il principio del cyberfemminismo + +12 +00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,800 +perché la posizione di donna haraway +era unica. + +13 +00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:56,880 +"Sono cosciente della strana perspettiva dovuta(?) alla mia posizione storica + +14 +00:00:56,880 --> 00:01:02,080 +io, una ragazza cattolica irlandese potei fare +il dottorato in biologia + +15 +00:01:02,080 --> 00:01:07,760 +grazie all'impatto che ebbe sputik +sulla politica nazionale scientifica degli stati uniti. + +16 +00:01:08,000 --> 00:01:10,560 +Ho un corpo e una mente costruite tanto quanto + +17 +00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:14,600 +dalla corsa per gli armamenti dopo la seconda guerra mondiale e guerra fredda + +18 +00:01:14,600 --> 00:01:17,240 +che dai movimenti per le donne. + +19 +00:01:17,520 --> 00:01:22,000 +Ci sono più motivi di speranza +se ci focalizziamo sugli effetti contradittori + +20 +00:01:22,000 --> 00:01:26,400 +delle politiche destinate +a produrre leali tecnocrat* american* + +21 +00:01:26,400 --> 00:01:29,680 +che hanno anche prodotto +un gran numero di dissident*, + +22 +00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,640 +piuttosto che sulle sconfitte presenti." + +23 +00:01:32,640 --> 00:01:38,880 +Il manifesto cyborg fu pubblicato nella rivista socialist review nel 1985. + +24 +00:01:38,880 --> 00:01:43,360 +Solo 2000 computer(?) erano collegati all'internet + +25 +00:01:43,360 --> 00:01:47,920 +ed erano limitati alla elite militare, amministrativa, ed accademica, + +26 +00:01:48,000 --> 00:01:51,080 +predominantemente uomini borghesi cis e bianchi. + +27 +00:01:53,880 --> 00:01:59,480 +Apple si stava gia vendendo +come il guerriero della libertà + +28 +00:01:59,480 --> 00:02:02,720 +con un costosissimo video pubblicitario diretto da ridley scott, + +29 +00:02:02,720 --> 00:02:08,720 +messo in onda durante il superbowl del 1984 con un tema orwelliano. + +30 +00:02:09,640 --> 00:02:12,400 +"Il problema principale con l* cyborg, sicuramente, + +31 +00:02:12,400 --> 00:02:16,760 +é che sono l* discendenti illeggitim* del militarismo e capitalismo patriarcale, + +32 +00:02:16,760 --> 00:02:19,240 +per non dire il socialismo di stato. + +33 +00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:23,240 +Ma l* discendenti illegittim* sono spesso +eccessivamente infedeli alle loro origini. + +34 +00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:26,360 +I loro padri, dopo tutto, +sono inessenziali." + +35 +00:02:26,840 --> 00:02:32,600 +Giusto quando il capitalismo dichiaro la sua vittoria globale e il fine della storia nel 1991, + +36 +00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:37,000 +internet fu reso accessibile +al pubblico com world wide web. + +37 +00:02:37,440 --> 00:02:42,280 +Quell'anno judy wajcman scrisse +"Il femminismo confronta la tecnologia" + +38 +00:02:42,280 --> 00:02:47,280 +e VNS matrix , + il primo collettivo cyberfemminista fu fondato + +39 +00:02:47,280 --> 00:02:51,680 +e pubblicarono "un manifesto cyberfemminista +per il 21esimo secolo" che proclamava: + +40 +00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:54,200 +"siamo il virus del nuovo disordine mondiale + +41 +00:02:54,200 --> 00:02:56,320 +rompendo il simbolico(?) da dentro + +42 +00:02:56,320 --> 00:02:59,200 +sabotatric* del computer centrale del grande papà + +43 +00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:02,200 +il clitoris é una linea diretta alla matrice + +44 +00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:06,000 +VNS matrix\sterminatric* dei codici morali + +45 +00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:07,760 +mercenar* della melma" + +46 +00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:10,520 +All'incirca nello stesso periodo + +47 +00:03:10,520 --> 00:03:17,320 +sandy stone scrisse +"Si alzi in piedi il corpo reale per favore ?"(?) + +48 +00:03:18,200 --> 00:03:22,920 +enfatizzando la verezza(?) della "realtà virtuale" + e come internet facilita + +49 +00:03:22,920 --> 00:03:27,160 +l'attraversamento delle frontiere del genere +e delle altre identità socialmente strutturate. + +50 +00:03:27,160 --> 00:03:32,480 +dice: "il mio interesse nel cyberspazio +é principalmente sull comunità + +51 +00:03:32,480 --> 00:03:33,840 +e come lavorano." + +52 +00:03:34,480 --> 00:03:38,480 +Le comunità cyberfemministe fiorivano nel web con idee radicali + +53 +00:03:38,480 --> 00:03:41,000 +ma i siti web erano ancora statici + +54 +00:03:41,000 --> 00:03:47,920 +e l* utent* di internet erano meno del 0.5% della popolazione mondiale fino al 1995, + +55 +00:03:47,920 --> 00:03:50,880 +quando bill gates era gia la persona piu ricca al mondo. + +56 +00:03:57,640 --> 00:04:02,840 +carmen hermosillo fu una delle prime adepte delle comunità del cyberspazio + +57 +00:04:03,280 --> 00:04:06,080 +"é di moda suggerire" scrisse + +58 +00:04:06,080 --> 00:04:08,920 +"che il cyberspazio sia un tipo di isola dell* benedett* + +59 +00:04:08,920 --> 00:04:13,480 +dove le persone sono libere di permettersi e esprimere la propria individualità. + +60 +00:04:13,480 --> 00:04:15,520 +questo non é vero. + +61 +00:04:15,880 --> 00:04:20,720 +ho visto molta gente esporre +le emozioni piu intime(?) online + +62 +00:04:20,720 --> 00:04:26,520 +e lo feci io stessa finché non mi resi conto di essermi mercantilizzata ." + +63 +00:04:26,680 --> 00:04:28,600 +All'inizio +del nuovo millennio + +64 +00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:33,360 +con il 5% della popolazione mondiale collegata +ad internet, darcy dinucci introdusse + +65 +00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,400 +il web 2.0: + +66 +00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:39,800 +"il web sara compresa +non come schermate di testo e grafiche ma + +67 +00:04:39,800 --> 00:04:45,160 +come un meccanismo di trasporto, l'etere +tramite il quale succede l'interazione. + +68 +00:04:45,160 --> 00:04:49,520 +apparira [...] negli schermi dei vostri + computer, [...] sulle vostre televisioni [...] + +69 +00:04:49,520 --> 00:04:53,200 +sul cruscotto della vostra auto [...] il vostro cellulare +[...] console di gioco portatili [...] + +70 +00:04:53,200 --> 00:04:56,080 +forse anche sul vostro forno a microonde." + +71 +00:04:57,120 --> 00:05:01,160 +Adesso, con la fibra ottica collegata direttamente alla tua casa + +72 +00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,760 +supponendo che quando arrivi al palo del telefono non ritorni ad essere un cavo, + +73 +00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:09,440 +ma che sia fibra per tutto il percorso, + +74 +00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:15,040 +si potranno fare cose come scaricare una pellicola intera in qualche minuto, + +75 +00:05:15,040 --> 00:05:16,760 +cose di questo genere. + +76 +00:05:16,760 --> 00:05:22,800 +tute le comunicazioni avverrano +in formato tcp/ip, + +77 +00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:26,640 +il che significa che saranno tutte digitali, saranno tutte pacchetti di dati + +78 +00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:28,400 +saranno tutte commutabili. + +79 +00:05:28,400 --> 00:05:37,520 +e potranno essere televisione, radio, computer, telefono, qualsiasi modo di comunicazione + +80 +00:05:37,520 --> 00:05:42,520 +avverrà in forma di pacchetti, +pacchetti tcp/ip. + +81 +00:05:42,520 --> 00:05:47,080 +probabilmente ci vorranno tra i 10 e 20 anni +a svilupparsi + +82 +00:05:47,080 --> 00:05:53,000 +pero si sta gia implementando con successo in test di mercato. + +83 +00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:59,640 +A me personalmente piace, +pero questo non significa nulla. + +84 +00:06:00,560 --> 00:06:04,800 +I blog e microblog si popolarizzarono gradualmente tra l* cyberfemminist* + +85 +00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:06,600 +e segnarono la nuova era. + +86 +00:06:06,800 --> 00:06:09,920 +tarana burke lanciò #MeToo +su myspace nel 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 --> 00:11:56,600 +"Where to start? +You will find +some information, + +166 +00:11:56,880 --> 00:11:58,720 +Slanted, +unfortunately, + +167 +00:11:58,720 --> 00:12:00,680 +By Googling. + +168 +00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:03,320 +For a more in depth study + +169 +00:12:03,320 --> 00:12:05,760 +I recommend starting with YouTube. + +170 +00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:11,680 +Simply follow the trail show of +“The Talmud” as its poison winds its way + +171 +00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:13,880 +Into our collective consciousness." + +172 +00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:18,240 +This way of using Youtube +for reactionary endoctrination + +173 +00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:26,600 +is called "redpilling" +among altright antifeminists, + +174 +00:12:26,600 --> 00:12:29,800 +even the concept itself is a cisheteropatriarchal appropriation of the + +175 +00:12:29,800 --> 00:12:33,200 +work of trans sisters +who wrote and directed the Matrix. + +176 +00:12:37,120 --> 00:12:41,680 +If the founder of womanism +can be redpilled by youtube autoplay, + +177 +00:12:41,680 --> 00:12:45,920 +it must not have been very hard +for companies like Cambridge Analytica + +178 +00:12:45,920 --> 00:12:49,520 +to use the Artificial Intelligence of Facebook +to hack elections + +179 +00:12:49,520 --> 00:12:52,520 +and raise neofascism around the world. + +180 +00:12:52,800 --> 00:12:56,920 +La psicografía. +Es un conocimiento de tu personalidad. + +181 +00:12:56,920 --> 00:12:59,680 +Porque es la personalidad la que dirige el comportamiento + +182 +00:12:59,680 --> 00:13:02,880 +y el comportamiento obviamente influye como votas. + +183 +00:13:03,200 --> 00:13:06,040 +To date, many studies prove that + +184 +00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:12,120 +the artificial intelligences of big corporations are classist, racist and sexist, + +185 +00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:15,280 +there's even documentaries about it on Netflix. + +186 +00:13:15,680 --> 00:13:23,960 +At the same time they also fuel reactionary trends within feminism, like transphobia + +187 +00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,240 +and whorephobia because social +media algorithms + +188 +00:13:27,240 --> 00:13:34,040 +consider inflammatory speech to be +engaging, therefore profitable. + +189 +00:13:35,000 --> 00:13:40,200 +Our attention spans are colonized and exploited by this new political economy. + +190 +00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:43,880 +This can’t go without questioning +by feminists + +191 +00:13:43,880 --> 00:13:48,080 +or anyone who positions themselves against systems of domination. + +192 +00:13:48,200 --> 00:13:50,040 +Audre Lorde's powerful essay + +193 +00:13:50,040 --> 00:13:53,560 +"The master’s tools will never +dismantle the master’s house" + +194 +00:13:53,560 --> 00:13:57,400 +about racism within the feminist movement, can also be applied + +195 +00:13:57,400 --> 00:14:01,400 +to other forms of intersecting oppressions that we have internalized, + +196 +00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:04,240 +like our relationship with technology. + +197 +00:14:04,520 --> 00:14:09,760 +Interestingly, Xenofeminist Lucca Fraser had challenged what Lorde said + +198 +00:14:09,760 --> 00:14:13,880 +by claiming that "the masters tools +can indeed dismantle the master’s house + +199 +00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:16,360 +because they can be hacked." + +200 +00:14:16,760 --> 00:14:20,160 +I disagree with Fraser’s reversal + +201 +00:14:20,160 --> 00:14:22,800 +because while you may well hack the master’s tools, + +202 +00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:25,880 +they could still belong to and benefit +the master. + +203 +00:14:26,280 --> 00:14:31,280 +"Let's acknowledge that the master's tools will not dismantle the master's house. + +204 +00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:34,400 +The very technologies that was +reason to dream + +205 +00:14:34,400 --> 00:14:36,240 +of new forms of political empowerment + +206 +00:14:36,240 --> 00:14:40,120 +has turned out to be the means of surveillance and control for everybody." + +207 +00:14:40,240 --> 00:14:44,920 +Even the first social use of telephone was a hack by housewives + +208 +00:14:44,920 --> 00:14:46,920 +as mentioned by Judy Wajcman. + +209 +00:14:47,480 --> 00:14:50,920 +We have hacked the tools of the master +to near perfection + +210 +00:14:50,920 --> 00:14:55,000 +but it seems like we are hacking in +the dark without consciousness. + +211 +00:14:55,000 --> 00:14:58,080 +We are winning battles but losing the war. + +212 +00:14:58,240 --> 00:14:59,880 +As Audre Lorde said: + +213 +00:14:59,880 --> 00:15:02,920 +"They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, + +214 +00:15:02,920 --> 00:15:07,400 +but they will never enable us +to bring about genuine change." + +215 +00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:12,400 +To bring about genuine change and realize the revolutionary potential of hacking + +216 +00:15:12,400 --> 00:15:15,480 +we have to demystify what hacking means. +