NACCS 33rd Annual Conference

Linking Local and Global Struggles for Social Justice: Transnational Chicana and Chicano StudiseJune 28-July 2006Hotel Fénix and Hotel Moraleshttps://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/naccs_programs/1023/thumbnail.jp

Analysis of the Progression of the Representation of Female Protagonists in the Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Shows Orphan Black and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Girl Power, Appropriated “Masculinity” in Conjunction with Femininity, Empowered Sexuality, and the Heterosexual Script

Buffy Summers goes from urban Los Angeles to Sunnydale, California after she is expelled from her previous high school on the grounds of an assortment of Slayer-related incidents. Chosen as the Slayer, Buffy is fated to fight against the forces of darkness, although this responsibility is not always conducive to leading the life of an average teenage girl. Upon moving to Sunnydale, Buffy quickly learns that Sunnydale High School sits directly above a “Hellmouth,” a hub for demon activity. Specifically, the entrance to the Hellmouth is located directly beneath the Sunnydale High School library, home to a curious collection of occult literature and Rupert Giles, the librarian, who Buffy soon discovers is her Watcher. Buffy befriends Xander Harris, a dorky boy who is often teased for his sense of style and lack of stereotypically masculine qualities, and Willow Rosenberg, a shy and awkward computer geek who spurs Buffy to accept her duties as the Slayer. Cordelia, the typical soap bitch of Sunnydale High School, often finds herself entangled with the “Scooby Gang’s” affairs, as the trio are aptly labeled (Jowett 30)

Digital Feminisms and the Impasse: Time, Disappearance, and Delay in Neoliberalism

This collaborative essay considers the way feminist activism takes shape in the context of time-based feminist performance art. We argue that the formal and aesthetic interventions into digital culture of Noah Sow, Chicks on Speed, and Hito Steyerl articulate political resistance within feminist impasses and neoliberal circularities. Our analysis focuses on how these artists engage digital platforms to make visible otherwise imperceptible aspects of the present, including consumerism, wellness, imperial warfare as crisis ordinariness, and modes of digital hypervisibility, perception, and representation. Not only do these works uncover, grapple with, and potentially dissolve the bind of feminism, but they also work against the imperceptibility of neoliberalism as second nature or common sense. In the form of this essay (with comment bubbles and hyperlinks), we highlight our process of thinking about these works and expose the collaborative process of feminist academic writing in the digital age as yet another form of searching for spaces of political resistance and solidarity. Should be viewed with current versions of Firefox, Safari, or Adobe PDF viewer/reader

Between struggle & fantasy. Queer urban communality.

The departure point of the thesis is the public vs. private division of space, which has historically been rooted in the organization of production and reproduction under capitalist urbanization. I want to look at this binary through queer theory and politics, going deeper into the power dynamic of capital and heteronormativity. This means looking not only at the public vs. private, but especially at how it serves as the basis for determining space as valuable. Queer is used as a critical tool, way of reading the space and revealing heteronormative and other power relations, and also as a lived struggle or activism – attempting to produce space free from gender and sexual constraints. As a way to challenge heteronormativity, queer is also intersectional and deals with “race” and “class” as elements that are used to construct the power hierarchy. The hypothesis is that space cannot be “queer” or “straight” itself, but it is rather performed as such — or queered. It is a continuous negotiation of power, ownership, safety, visibility, etc. within power relation structures. The key questions are the following: how does social reproduction labour enable queering of space, and how does queering deconstruct the capitalist framing of social reproduction in urban space? How does this labour of care work as a support system or framework, allowing activism, organization, community building, or other forms of agency of queer bodies in the urban environment, and what is the spatial dimension in facilitating this labour? Finally, what is the future of queer in the city, and how will it continue to redefine its space, narrative, and futures under neoliberalism? The applied methods are theoretical studies, case study analysis consisting of interviews and empirical observations, as well as autoethnographic observations. The first part of the thesis opens up key concepts, positions the thesis within the architectural discourse and clarifies the position from which it is written. The second part consist of five essays about queer urban situations, which vary from domestic arrangements, through underground clubs organization, to displacements resulting from gentrification

Interventions in Digital Cultures: Technology, the Political, Methods

How to intervene? Interventions are in vogue in digital cultures as forms of critique or political actions into public spheres. By engaging in social, political, and economic contexts, interventions attempt to interrupt and change situations - often with artistic means. This volume maps methods of interventions under the specific conditions of the digital. How are interventions shaped by these conditions? And how can they contribute to altering them? In essays and interviews, this book interrogates modes of intervening in and through art, infrastructures, techno-ecological environments, bio-technology, and political protests to highlight their potentials as well as their ambivalences

Algorithmic Authenticity: An Overview

What makes information feel true or compelling in our contemporary digital societies? This book brings together different disciplinary understandings of "authenticity" in order to find alternative ways to approach mis- and disinformation that go beyond contemporary fact-checking and its search for the "authentic" truth. Patterned under the algorithmic flows of digital capitalism, authenticity itself is subject to variation, iteration, and outside influence. Linking cross-disciplinary research on the history and practices of algorithmic authenticity points to new research questions to understand the impact of algorithmic authenticity on social life and its role in contemporary information disorder

Difference, Diversity, Diffraction. Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions : Proceedings of the 10th European Feminist Research Conference, 12–15 September 2018

Proceedings of the 10th European Feminist Research Conference. The conference was organised by the Göttingen Diversity Research Institute and the Göttingen Centre for Gender Studies, and took place from 12 to 15 September 2018 at the University of Göttingen. It was co-organised with ATGENDER and FG Gender

Editorial: Rendering Research

To render is to give something “cause to be” or “hand over” (from the Latin reddere “give back”) and enter into an obligation to do or make something like a decision. More familiar perhaps in computing, to render is to take an image or file and convert it into another format or apply a modification of some kind; or in the case of 3D animation or scanning, to render is to animate it or give it volume. In this issue, we ask, what does it mean to render research? How does the rendering of research reinforce certain limitations of thought and action? We ask these questions in the context of more and more demands on researchers to produce academic outputs in standardised forms, in peer-reviewed journals and such like that are legitimised by normative values. So, then, how to render research otherwise