Furious: Technological Feminism and Digital Futures (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780745340500)

As digital transformations continue to accelerate in the world, discourses of big data have come to dominate in a number of fields, from politics and economics, to media and education. But how can we really understand the digital world, ask the authors of Furious, when so much of the writing through which we grapple with it remains deeply problematic? In a compelling new work of feminist critical theory, Bassett, Kember and O'Riordan scrutinise many of the assumptions of a masculinist digital world, highlighting the tendency of digital humanities scholarship to venerate and essentialise technical forms, and to adopt gendered writing and citation practices. Contesting these writings, practices and politics, the authors foreground feminist traditions and contributions to the field, offering alternative modes of knowledge production, and a radically different, poetic writing style. Through this prism, Furious brings into focus themes including the automation of home and domestic work, the Anthropocene, and intersectional feminist technofutures.

Author: Caroline Bassett, Sarah Kember, Kate O'Riordan
ISBN-10: 0745340504
ISBN-13: 9780745340500
Publisher: Pluto Press (UK)
Language: English
Published: 11/20/2019
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.50d