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Why this work matters
That matters because this is where the section most clearly exceeds scene history and becomes a serious metaphysics of technical subjectivity. It is also where later xenofeminist arguments inherit some of their most difficult material.
Then and now
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 Parisi - Event and Evolution, read for how event is made to precede stable identity. Once that shift is clear, the account of bodies and difference becomes much easier to follow.
For Parisi - Event and Evolution, track where process is treated as both material and conceptual. That crossing is the core of the page's force.
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Primary claim
These pages are crucial because they show how the section's most demanding philosophical line works. Event and evolution are treated as processual relays through which bodies, sensation, and difference are continually composed.
The work's mechanism
The pages operate by refusing a simple split between matter and abstraction. Technical processes and lived embodiment are forced into the same frame, which changes how difference itself can be described.
What this work claims
That matters because this is where the section most clearly exceeds scene history and becomes a serious metaphysics of technical subjectivity. It is also where later xenofeminist arguments inherit some of their most difficult material.
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Essay / text work
Parisi - Event and Evolution works best when read as compressed scene-writing: argument, terminology, and style arrive together rather than in separate academic stages.
Publication context
Parisi - Event and Evolution 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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Parisi makes computation a process. Watson’s algorithms “draw a diagram” or “virtual design” of matter’s un-unified potentialities, making sex-events into haecceities [c2]
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Bifurcation of nature neutralized
The pressure lands when no mechanism can secure the two-sex order. Sexual reproduction and genetic engineering lose their privilege; sex becomes an event with “an infinity of forms” [c11]
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The register turns lurid in “grey-goo scenarios of atomic and subatomic sexes.” That image leaves the essay reading now like a bridge between feminist process philosophy and CCRU-style technics [c10]
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Best entry extract · paragraph 1
EVENT AND EVOLUTION Luciana Parisi abstract: Why have theories of evolution become now (and again) a matter of concern for critically rethinking sex and sexual difference?
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Definition · paragraph 1
EVENT AND EVOLUTION Luciana Parisi abstract: Why have theories of evolution become now (and again) a matter of concern for critically rethinking sex and sexual difference?
Definition · paragraph 1
EVENT AND EVOLUTION Luciana Parisi abstract: Why have theories of evolution become now (and again) a matter of concern for critically rethinking sex and sexual difference? Why after years of deconstructing the ontologies of sex rooted in biological discourses and metaphysics of identity has critical thought turned to biology, physics, and mathematics?
Definition · paragraph 9
With Deleuze, one must conceive of virtual and actual planes as multiplicities whose differentiation necessarily implies a becoming in kind and degree, and not a continual complexification of one form. The ontol- ogy of sexual difference cannot eternally endure beyond the event and evolution of sexes, which are not governed by the bio-logics of complexi- fication.
Definition · paragraph 8
And yet, there are at least two problematic implications, which derive from such compelling conceptions of sexual difference and evolution. On the one hand, the notion of durée in evolution may imply a “fallacy of misplaced concreteness,” as Whitehead points out, as it substitutes the “becoming of continuity,” and thus evolution as made of events of irreparable breaks and novelties, with the “continuity of becoming,” where all remains fundamentally determined by a physical chain of variations.
Definition · paragraph 3
“There are no processes of form, but forms of process,” Whitehead argues.4 From this standpoint, no evolutionary form can endure forever. The becoming of a form is eternal, not because the same form endures forever, but because once a form perishes it implies the eventuation of the new.