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The XENOFEMINIST MANIFESTO
Very few works survive in this age of constant iconoclasm via creative over-saturation. Of those that do, which is to say, those works of the written word which are still worth reading a few days after they have been published, most of them share these characteristics:
Published on their own domain
Generally by an anonymous person or committee of persons
Leaning whole-heartedly into the dense complex wordplay of the literate.
That's just the game as it is played these days.
So this is the Xenofeminist Manifesto, written by queers in 2015. Politically this situates the manifesto after the dissolution of Occupy Wall Street, in which the disaffected movers and shakers of that generation connected online to try and make sense of the cybernetic world which still seemed to have some of the promise of the early Internet. I connect the 'early Internet' to the dawn of Wikipedia, a time when it seemed like the Internet might bring waves of liberation to a corporatized and commodified world.
It didn't turn out that way.
But this is your legacy.
Laboria Cuboniks, I toast your effort! I toast your sacrifice! I suck your peepee and your clit! QUEER THE BOUNDARIES.
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It reminds me of Porpentine Twine games like this. It's a while since I've played it, but I seem to recall some subtext about biology contributing to systems of oppression n shit. Also an attempt to reveal injustices by reframing the everyday world as alien. Maybe I've just been triggered by the word "xeno-".
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Every system inevitably involves coercion because the externalized costs to society to defend itself, and to keep people alive and reproducing must be placed onto the members of a society in general.
Biology is, to some extent, the root of this and inevitable.
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