Caroline Bassett & Sarah Kember 
Furious [EPUB ebook] 
Technological Feminism and Digital Futures

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 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.

Table of Content

Series Preface

Acknowledgements

Preface

1. Feminist Futures: A Conditional Paeon for the Anything-Digital

2. Scale, Subject and Stories: Unreal Objects

3. Bland Ambition? Automation’s Missing Visions

4. Driving at the Anthropocene, or, Let’s Get Out of Here: How?

5. Technological Feminism and Digital Futures

Bibliography

Index

About the author

Kate O’Riordan is Reader in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. Her research interests relate to cultural studies of emerging technologies, from the web in the 1990s to genome editing in 2014. She has authored and edited a number of books including Unreal Objects (Pluto, 2017) and The Genome Incorporated: Constructing Biodigital Identity (Routledge, 2016).