OCADU DOCC ‘16

RIP Harambe: Intra-Action and Non-Human Killability

In response to Nature’s Queer Performativity by Karen Barad

In Nature’s Queer Performativity, Karen Barad discusses the human/animal nature/culture dichotomies wherein a “tactic of dehumanization” (122) is commonly…

Compulsory Heterosexuality

Responding to Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation, by Judith Halberstam

I really enjoyed Halberstam’s piece on “Pixarvolt”, and their argument that animated movies for children are often sites of transgression, due to undertones of queer narratives…

Barbaric Cultural Practices and Homonationalism

Responding to Transborder Affective Foreclosures and State Racism, by Athena Athanasiou and Judith Butler

Athanasiou and Butler outline a brief history of state sanctioned and implemented xenophobic policies that were…

Video Dialogue: Cyborg Feminism

Cyborg Femme-ifesto

Responding to A Manifesto For Cyborgs, by Donna Haraway, and Automating Gender, by Jack Halberstam

Haraway’s Cyborg Manifesto presents a post-gender, post-species approach to feminist praxis. She makes the argument that evolution has blurred the boundaries between…

In Tango with Science and Culture

Responding to After Absolute Neutrality: Expanding Science by Sandra Harding

Sandra Harding suggests that we should be critical of science because research methodology in itself and technologies are culturally bound — we cannot divorce science…

The Speculum as A Symbol of Female Empowerment: Responding to Donna Haraway’s “Fetus”

After discussing Donna Haraway’s Fetus: The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order in class, I found myself questioning the notion of the gynaecological speculum as a symbol and tool…

Immaterial Digital Labour

Responding to Free Labour: Producing Culture For The Digital Economy, by Tiziana Terranova

Terranova, writing in 2000, brings up a lot of interesting points that seem more relevant than ever in our contemporary digital society. She talks about unpaid digital…