Xenofeminist session

Monday January 4, 2016, 7pm

Xenofeminist session

With Laboria Cuboniks and Yoneda Lemma
Responded by the Reading Group seminar

HEAD, Boulevard Helvétique 9, 1205 Geneva, seminar room CCC, salle 27, 2nd floor

Image: laboriacuboniks.net
Image: laboriacuboniks.net

Laboria Cuboniks will present elements from their Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation together with Yoneda Lemma that will stretch xenofeminist thinking into sonic substances. The reading/sounding of the Xenofeminist Manifesto will be responded by the Reading Group seminar.

“Is xenofeminism a programme? Not if this means anything so crude as a recipe, or a single-purpose tool by which a determinate problem is solved. We prefer to think like the schemer or lisper, who seeks to construct a new language in which the problem at hand is immersed, so that solutions for it, and for any number of related problems, might unfurl with ease. Xenofeminism is a platform, an incipient ambition to construct a new language for sexual politics—a language that seizes its own methods as materials to be reworked, and incrementally bootstraps itself into existence. We understand that the problems we face are systemic and interlocking, and that any chance of global success depends on infecting myriad skills and contexts with the logic of XF. Ours is a transformation of seeping, directed subsumption rather than rapid overthrow; it is a transformation of deliberate construction, seeking to submerge the white-supremacist capitalist patriarchy in a sea of procedures that soften its shell and dismantle its defenses, so as to build a new world from the scraps.” (0x19. XF)