Revisiting the Future. Cyberfeminism in the Twenty-First Century.

Revisiting the Future. Cyberfeminism in the Twenty-First Century.

Cornelia Sollfrank / 2016

In this text I will revisit the various elaborations of cyberfeminism that were practiced in the 1990s. Underlying this trip into the past is a series of questions that might help to better understand the present: what were the impulses behind the techno-feminist upheaval?[1] How did the different concepts vary? Can cyberfeminism play a role in the current situation in which the atmosphere of departure has evaporated, making space for a seemingly all-encompassing dystopia? Are there any techno-feminist approaches that respond to contemporary challenges?

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