145. The Cyberfeminism Index with Mindy Seu

Original Drawing by Tori Haynes

This week we are joined by Mindy Seu who published The Cyberfeminism Index electronically and physically. What we focus on is how the index is gathered, organized, and shared and how it could be applicable in the built environment.

Timestamp Outline 

2:39 The Cyberfeminism Index: the introduction, what it’s about, and why so much emphasis on the format?

7:51 “Constant mirror between digital and physical” MS

8:20 Technology of hyperlinking and the act of citation

9:58 The organization of the cyberfeminism index

15:26 The tension between being authorial and not authorial
Derrida Strikethrough

17:09 Ursula K. Le Guin - The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction

19:11 “Why bother with authorship at all? Why not just make the basked and call it a basket?” VP

23:35 The joy of gathering, future-proofing, and living text

26:56 What we thought the internet would be

28:42 Lisa Nakamura - Race in Cyberspace

31:12 Ralph Ginzburg - Eros, Fact, and Avant Garde

34:29 “Queering as not an identity, but more like a movement that deviates from the norm” Judith Butler

35:55 Connecting queering and heteroglossia, connection to the built environment

38:36 Vikram Prakash - The Interest of Desire: Feminism and Aesthetic Pleasure in Architecture

40:10 O(U)R - A House Deconstructed

40:21 If you were to design a building, how would you be inspired by the index in designing?