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stewart-home-sadie-plant-james-mannox-the-art-strike-papers-the-years-without-art-1990-1993
"stewart-home-sadie-plant-james-mannox-the-art-strike-papers-the-years-without-art-1990-1993" develops the cyberfeminist line by tying gender, media systems, writing, and synthetic culture into one technical field.
Archive condition
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Core idea
The page matters because cyberfeminism here is not an add-on to the archive's better-known themes. It is one of the places where circuitry, writing, labor, and gender are made to reorganize what counts as a subject or a system.
These texts work by making cultural criticism, theory, and technical description contaminate each other. The result is a model of subjectivity produced through networks, codes, and infrastructural mediation rather than grounded in stable identity.
That matters because the archive's human/machine problem changes once it is read through Plant, Parisi, and later xenofeminist debate. The future stops looking like a neutral technical horizon and becomes a struggle over who or what gets composed by it.
How to read this text
Read for where writing, labor, media, or embodiment are described as technical arrangements rather than background topics. That is where the page usually sharpens.
Keep an eye on how the page positions itself against humanist or moralizing accounts of technology. The section's strongest interventions are usually anti-essentialist and infrastructural at once.
Representative extracts
Definition · paragraph 14
The Art Strikl Papers ARTISTIC DISAR.MAMENT Cluster round the juke /Joxfor some songs you've probably heard before, it's 110tlring if it isn't pure. - Yeah Yeah Noh, Stealing in the Name of the Lord. The art strike ( .. ;)is a good thing only insofar as itproduces more . radical art, of which its own propaganda is a perfect example. ,... Sadie Plant, Here and Now 1 O.
Definition · paragraph 10
Tlie ArtStrik!;: Papers WHEN BLOWING THE STRIKE IS STRIKING THE BLOW Those whose identity is based on 'their opposition' to the world as it is,· have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo - Stewart Home. There's a lotto be said for the Art Strike, which is just as well, since between 1990 and 1993nothing can be written or painted or perforlled in its support.
Definition · paragraph 10
Tlie ArtStrik!;: Papers WHEN BLOWING THE STRIKE IS STRIKING THE BLOW Those whose identity is based on 'their opposition' to the world as it is,· have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo - Stewart Home.
History · paragraph 3
THE ART STRIKE PAPERS Featuring James Manno¢ Stewart Home, Sadie Plant, Nik Houghton, .Mr Jones &c AK IQdl.i#J A.K. Press • Stirling • 1991
History · paragraph 14
Sadie Plant, Here and Now 1 O. The success orfailure of Karen Home's' Art Strike' propaganda can clearly not be judged in tenns of how many artists do in fact down toolS'from now until 1993 - that would be to cruel.
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.