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First question: what's a xenoaccelerationist? Is it appropriate to abbreviate it as X/acc? How does it relate to xenofeminism? What are 2 to 3 introductory t

First question: what's a xenoaccelerationist? Is it appropriate to abbreviate it as X/acc? How does it relate to xenofeminism? What are 2 to 3 introductory texts you would recommend on acc in general and X/acc in particular? I've read "Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics", "Xenofeminism: A Politics for Alienation" and "#Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader", what your thoughts on these books? My apologies for all the questions, but since you're offering I'd figured I'd ask.

chobeat 7y ago
I've never seen that abbreviation and I don't like them but if you like, use it. Multiplicities! I would say that you need Inventing the future, that while being limited in many things, is a necessary read. Then proceed with Capitalist Realism and if you like it, Fanged Noumena.
- claudiawerner 7y ago
  As a side note, Marxist scholar Antonio Negri has some thoughts on the accelerationist manifesto: http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/02/26/reflections-accelerate-manifesto/ http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/02/26/reflections-acce...
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beckingz 7y ago
Xenofeminism is powerful
- charlchi 7y ago
  > Hester also makes compelling and unexpected links between these second-wave feminist strategies and those of contemporary transfeminism, uncovering unlikely affinities between schools of thought often positioned in antagonism. In both of these historical instances, individuals acquire power over their bodies through building networks and repurposing everyday technologies. For Hester, the Del-Em is a direct antecedent to online trans* communities providing medical support or even grey-market hormones. At the threshold of this continuum is another of Hester’s evocative examples – a transgenic plant developed by Open Source Gendercodes which allows laypeople to grow sex hormones within tobacco leaves. For some reason I was expecting something more interesting than the same feminism and transgender politics...
  - chobeat 7y ago
    it is more interesting. It's about technology, it's about aliens, it's about new forms of being together. Open-sourcing hormones is not really "same transgender politics". It's about empowerment through technology and how to rethink technology to empower people. every technology creator should read it.

chobeat 7y ago

I've never seen that abbreviation and I don't like them but if you like, use it. Multiplicities! I would say that you need Inventing the future, that while being limited in many things, is a necessary read. Then proceed with Capitalist Realism and if you like it, Fanged Noumena.

claudiawerner 7y ago
As a side note, Marxist scholar Antonio Negri has some thoughts on the accelerationist manifesto: http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/02/26/reflections-accelerate-manifesto/ http://criticallegalthinking.com/2014/02/26/reflections-acce...

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beckingz 7y ago

Xenofeminism is powerful

charlchi 7y ago
> Hester also makes compelling and unexpected links between these second-wave feminist strategies and those of contemporary transfeminism, uncovering unlikely affinities between schools of thought often positioned in antagonism. In both of these historical instances, individuals acquire power over their bodies through building networks and repurposing everyday technologies. For Hester, the Del-Em is a direct antecedent to online trans* communities providing medical support or even grey-market hormones. At the threshold of this continuum is another of Hester’s evocative examples – a transgenic plant developed by Open Source Gendercodes which allows laypeople to grow sex hormones within tobacco leaves. For some reason I was expecting something more interesting than the same feminism and transgender politics...
- chobeat 7y ago
  it is more interesting. It's about technology, it's about aliens, it's about new forms of being together. Open-sourcing hormones is not really "same transgender politics". It's about empowerment through technology and how to rethink technology to empower people. every technology creator should read it.