subRosa book announcement - Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices

subRosa is pleased to announce the publication of "Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices" [https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-032-06955-9], now available as the third release from the Palgrave BioArt series edited by Ionat Zurr.

"Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices"—by Hyla Willis, Irina Aristarkhova, Nathanael Elias Mengist, and Faith Wilding—intervenes in this moment of rapid biotechnological development and international political turmoil with thought-provoking, creative, and justice-oriented essays on art and life: opting out of the sludge and consent theatre presented by standard “terms and conditions”; creating plant-assisted reproductive technologies (pARTs) such as indecision trees; practicing compassionate inquiry; and becoming a cyborg-elder. Refusing the authoritarian turn and backlash against reproductive, LGBTQIA+, and racial justice movements, its authors and contributors—artists, writers, scholars, designers, activists, and educators—draw on the twenty-five years of cyberfeminist art work from the subRosa art collective, as well as Black, postcolonial, and environmental feminisms.

The overall motto of the book is “we will save ourselves,” with examples taken from critical and revisionist histories of alchemy, the automation of writing systems, and reproductive mutual aid. In doing so, the authors develop new analyses of (cyber)feminist contributions to bioart, tactical media, gender, women’s, and sexuality studies, media studies and communication, technoscience studies and STS, durational art, and performance studies.

The authors are especially pleased to include a roundtable discussion with many of the original contributors to "Domain Errors! Cyberfeminist Practices," which was published nearly 25 years ago as a subRosa project by Autonomedia, including María Fernández, Amelia G Jones, Tania Kupczak, Laleh Mehran, Susanna Paasonen, Nell Tenhaaf & Michelle M. Wright.