Appropriating the Alien A Critique of Xenofeminism

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Why this work matters

That matters because the later feminist afterlife of the archive is not reducible to influence. It is a live argument over how much of technical modernity can be repurposed and at what cost.

Then and now

Why this mattered then

After the 2015 Berlin launch, xenofeminism moved fast through art institutions, new-media culture, and syllabi [c0][c8]. Annie Goh’s critique arrived as that uptake hardened. It challenged the manifesto’s vague “politics of alienation” and tied its vector back to Sadie Plant and Nick Land [c2]. It also named the whitening of intersectionality inside that universalism [c3]. With xenophobia and white nationalist feminisms rising, the collective’s admission, “we are all white and from the Global North,” carried weight [c5].

Why it matters now

Now it matters as a route into questions that later readers often meet through What Was the CCRU?, but in a denser and less pre-digested form.

How to read this

For Appropriating the Alien A Critique of Xenofeminism, read the page's stance on alienation first. Whether alienation is being embraced, revised, or criticized determines almost everything else.

For Appropriating the Alien A Critique of Xenofeminism, watch how abstraction is translated into politics or poetics. That is where the page's synthetic ambition becomes most concrete.

Argument map

• Primary claim

  These pages matter because they show xenofeminism as a wager on using technical alienation rather than rejecting it. The future is treated as something to be engineered through abstraction, reason, and synthetic collectivity, even when that wager is contested.

• The work's mechanism

  Manifesto, critique, and interview form each make a different part of the argument visible. Policy language, political objection, and poetic militancy all become ways of testing what alien emancipation could mean.

• What this work claims

  That matters because the later feminist afterlife of the archive is not reducible to influence. It is a live argument over how much of technical modernity can be repurposed and at what cost.

Style and mode

Essay / text work

Appropriating the Alien A Critique of Xenofeminism works best when read as compressed scene-writing: argument, terminology, and style arrive together rather than in separate academic stages.

Publication context

Appropriating the Alien A Critique of Xenofeminism is surfaced here through the Cyberfeminism, Xenofeminism, and Technical Subjects section, which means the edition reads it as part of a larger scene of lectures, interfaces, fragments, and later commentary rather than as a freestanding classic.

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Key concepts and people

Best 3 moments

1. Key moment

   Guide-quote genealogy

   Goh reconstructs xenofeminism’s lineage through paratext: four guide quotes, Marx’s “Fragment on Machines,” and the #ACC anthology’s “spectral father figure” staging a quasi-Marxist technological vector.

2. Key moment

   Alienated labour gloss

   The argument bites at labour. Noys’s claim that “speeding through labor is false” leads to “Deleuzian Thatcherism,” where anti-capitalist acceleration becomes materially indiscernible from capitalism’s own violence.

3. Key moment

   Foreigners-now declaration

   Quoting “Cyberpositive,” Goh isolates the line “We are all foreigners now.” Its sci-fi pitch lands as a flattening of “women,” “foreigners,” and “schizophrenics” into one alien category.

Key passage

Best entry extract · paragraph 1

ARTICLES APPROPRIATING THE ALIEN: A CRITIQUE OF XENOFEMINISM By Annie Goh , 29 July 2019 Politics / AntiCapitalist / Neoliberal / Theory / Cyberfeminism / Cyborg / Feminist / Posthumanist The Xenofeminist Manifesto claims, among many things, rationalism and technology as core to a renewed futurist feminist project.

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