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Abstract Sex
A text that treats sex as abstract process, moving the problem of desire and reproduction into the virotechnical and informational field.
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Core idea
The page's main claim is that sex should not be confined to organismal reproduction or stable identity. Abstraction, contagion, and distributed exchange force sexuality into a wider technical and informational frame.
It works by joining bodily process to abstract circulation. Reproduction and desire become transmissive problems rather than merely natural or personal ones.
That matters because it links virotechnics directly to gendered and embodied process. The section needs pages like this to show how contagion cuts across life, code, and sexuality at once.
How to read this text
Read for how the page dislodges sex from bounded organismic models before following the larger abstractions.
Track where intimacy becomes transmission. That is usually where the page makes its strongest move.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 7
Abstract sex instead offers a pragmatics of encounters, abductions and contagions between bodies, laying out a dynamics of sociability that emerges in situ rather than being determined by social positions.
Definition · paragraph 7
Abstract sex instead offers a pragmatics of encounters, abductions and contagions between bodies, laying out a dynamics of sociability that emerges in situ rather than being determined by social positions. It entails a bodily participation in pulling out potential threads of mutation from actual conditions and distributing turbulent variations.
Definition · paragraph 4
Abstract Sex complexity is, then, undermined. Indeed, sexual reproduction itself can be expected to have arisen from previous symbiotic associations, from parasitisms and transgenic trades between distinct bacteria under certain pressures, and bacterial symbiosis is thoroughly folded into the process of nucleic transmission. This leads to a conception of life as a ‘dissipative dynamics’, a non- teleological account of nature’s organisation.
Definition · paragraph 4
In endosymbiosis, novelty does not imply the enrichment of matter; the rule of symbiotic life is chance encounter – unforeseeable responses to unknowable conditions. Abstract Sex Your people will change. Your young will be more like us and ours more like you.
Stakes · paragraph 7
I, Cyborg: Reinventing the Human ethology) of Spinoza, subtracting the body’s field of action from the humanist logic of self-interest, whereby political activity requires the identification of groups occupying visible social categories (e.g. class, race and gender). Abstract sex instead offers a pragmatics of encounters, abductions and contagions between bodies, laying out a dynamics of sociability that emerges in situ rather than being determined by social positions.
Appears in sections
Control, Virotechnics, and Swarm Systems Primary section
Control processes, viral language, swarms, and abstract dynamics as a media-theoretical cluster.