audrey lorde argues that contemporary (to her) feminism recreates oppressive structures used by patriarchy, just along the other dimensions (sexuality, race, class, etc), and we (feminists) must embrace our differences and find strength not in blending together and erasing/ignoring different points of view, but in differentiating and realizing what each of us has to add to the table
when i came to listen to my first lecture on linear algebra back in the 20xx, the lecturer started with a phrase “just imagine an n-dimensional cube”, which left me confused (intentionally, i guess?). what the hell is an n-dimensional cube, i thought, looking at others trying to figure if they felt the same. most of them were boys from prominent math schools, and they did not.
well, i guess, that essay describes a nice little n-dimensional cube of oppression:)
"I urge each one of us here to reach down into that deep place of knowledge inside herself and touch that terror and loathing of any difference that lives there. See whose face it wears."
it's fascinating that the book was written some 30 years ago, but still aged quite well, i guess?
- the power and the capital have became decentralized and lost clear spatial representations; while physical buildings and structures maintain the symbolic value, physically blocking them became meaningless. so we can _block the information flows_ instead:)
- power-value can be deduced by the level of security and the reaction to trespass; what can we, in our turn, deduce from it now? what data can we use?
- i'm curious about the stats on political cases in cyberspace in my country now. is it correct to measure the value of "cyberspace trespass" via the same tools that author used for 1990's usa? we definitely should separate cases againts "trespass" from just nice casual freedom of speech violations
- ogranizing in anarchists cells ("real communities" without bureaucracy; harder to infiltrate), with shared political values and goals and wide range of skills. us?
обнулилась до заводских сегодня; discussing readings in english in a group full of very cool people is my personal panic attack recipe; all those years of therapy gone where
but i think our group is kinda funny and we have really diverse personalities and skills; we are truly intercontinental / intercultural and hopefully will come up with something genuinely interesting for all four of us when we get to know each other better
would be cool to 1) transfer this idea into russian politics space 2) add a temporal dimension so that _some dynamics_ (of who ate who) would be revealed 3) focus more on personas and their fate -- who got promoted, who got arrested, etc
(need to have some extensive politology expertise for that kind of project though)
LOL i'm not sure how useful it turned out to be but the implementation is just hilarious and kinda retro-futuristic
"As a proof of concept, we have downloaded the pictures of 7000 corporate executives whose LinkedIn profiles suggest they work for financial organizations, and then averaged their faces to produce generalized white collar criminal subjects unique to each high risk zone."