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From the Archive Amy Ireland ‘The Stranger' Interview (CAROUSEL 39) - CAROUSEL Magazine Blog
"From the Archive Amy Ireland ‘The Stranger' Interview (CAROUSEL 39) - CAROUSEL Magazine Blog" stages xenofeminism as an open argument about alienation, emancipation, technics, and the politics of synthetic futures.
Archive condition
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Core idea
These pages treat xenofeminism as a live dispute rather than a settled school. Technical mediation is approached as something to be seized, critiqued, or refunctioned, not simply celebrated.
Debate and interview forms matter here because they make the political stakes explicit. Alienation, abstraction, and programmability are tested against organization, poetics, and the possibility of collective futurity.
That matters because this section is where later feminist theory most directly confronts the archive's inheritance. The point is not seamless continuity but an argument over what technical emancipation could mean.
How to read this text
Start by identifying whether the page is advocating xenofeminism, revising it, or criticizing it. That makes the later detail much easier to place.
Watch how alienation, labor, or synthetic reason are framed. Those terms usually carry the page's deepest disagreement or wager.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 1
From the Archive: Amy Ireland ‘The Stranger’ Interview (CAROUSEL 39) Eric Schmaltz / August 14, 2021 / Featured Artist, Interview Amy Ireland is an experimental poet and theorist, co-conspiring with arcane and esoteric vectors of poetic and theoretical thought. As a PhD Candidate in Creative Writing at the School of the Arts and Media at the University of New South Wales, Ireland’s work develops concepts embedded within the prefix xeno-, denoting that which is unfamiliar, strange and alien.
Definition · paragraph 1
From the Archive: Amy Ireland ‘The Stranger’ Interview (CAROUSEL 39) Eric Schmaltz / August 14, 2021 / Featured Artist, Interview Amy Ireland is an experimental poet and theorist, co-conspiring with arcane and esoteric vectors of poetic and theoretical thought.
Definition · paragraph 1
Following this trajectory, Ireland is writing her thesis on xenopoetics, which engages various poetry projects that involve linguistic transcoding, VFX software, 3D printing, stealth technology and projectiles. She is also one part of xenofeminist swarm-collective Laboria Cuboniks, a provocative response to the tumultuous social, material, and technological conditions of our time. CAROUSEL Magazine: Blog Poetry.
Definition · paragraph 7
This affirmative attitude towards alienation is marked in the xenofeminist use of the xeno- prefix. Perhaps the point at which xenofeminism differs most from past feminist movements is our endorsement of practical reason as a tool for feminist emancipation (this would be the main point of contention between xenofeminist and cyberfeminist practices as I see it, although it comes down to an effect of differently inflected historical moments, rather than denoting an integral disagreement).
Definition · paragraph 1
She is also one part of xenofeminist swarm-collective Laboria Cuboniks, a provocative response to the tumultuous social, material, and technological conditions of our time. CAROUSEL Magazine: Blog Poetry. Fiction.
Appears in sections
Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects Primary section
Sadie Plant, Amy Ireland, and the technical, gendered, and synthetic subject positions running through the archive.