DOM-C1080 - VCD Workshop: The Common Knowledge Workshop, 27.05.2019-31.05.2019

Topic outline

• Day 5 – W.W.W: win win win or Working With Weakness?
  Competition, technofeminism, and networks of care 

  Friday 31 May, 9.15–17 with Lisa Rein and Robynn McPherson

  
  

  "The real emancipatory potential of technology remains unrealized." - xenofeminist manifesto (RU)

  We invite participants to dream with us of a feminist internet. Let's consider the web together, and dicuss the internet's uses, abuses and potentials - in forms of empowerment, intervention, and collective political engagement. How can the social fabric of the internet be strengthed to enable better communications of care? What is the feminist potential of the W.W.W.? 
  

  Our workshop aims to be slow, caring, fun and reflective.  We want to enable collaboration between bodies - and weave together some kind of affective web, and serve it to others through the internet. In our session, we wish to practice "slowness" and channel boredom and laziness in response to the rapid expansion and competitive pace of the internet. Can we locate and dissect the competitive structures embedded in both our material and virtual webs? 
  

  'Digital technologies are not separable from the material realities that underwrite them; they are connected so that each can be used to alter the other towards different ends.' - xenofeminist manifesto (RU)
  

  
  

  "It matters what stories we tell to tell other stories with. It matters what concepts we think to think other concepts with" - Donna Haraway 

  goals: Discuss a feminist web. Serve a collective website.     

  vibes: reflective, sensitive, therapeutic, fun, common, messy,   

  methods: mediated and unmediated group disscussions, sharing circles, cyberfeminist writing

  tools: material bodies in action, documentation methods, html, internet server, eating,  

  attitudes: open-minded, respectful, responsive, explorative, collaborative, chaotic, poetic,  

  "In a time where all aspects of our lives are individualized in order to create market value, we suggest to go the opposite direction and instead aim at making ourselves as dependant on each other as possible." - Malmo Free University for Women (MFK)  

    

  Learning outcomes:

  - inspiration to dream

  - experience weaving and serving a website / very basics of website development and technical skills

  - to practice collaborative making, mixing skills and creating bonds   

  - reflections on www, technol. and inter-sectional feminism 

  - knowledge and de-mystification of the structures and hiearchies of the internet