The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century

While the Internet does democratize access to information to a certain extent, Twitter’s limited word count and algorithms designed to encourage contentions also incite conflicts and discrimination. In Thailand, Feminists who combat misogyny online are given a specific nickname, “Femtwit” (Feminist + Twitter), no doubt with a derogatory tone. A Cyberfeminist Manifesto For the 21st Century was written and declared by VNS Matrix back in 1991, when people hoped the Internet to be a blank slate of possibilities. Decades later across territorial waters, VNS Matrix’s lines like  “We are the modern cunt,” words charged with gender undertone of flesh and bones, still proved to us that the cyber blank slate has not meant the possibility to embrace the other, but could also mean, more often than not, the ability to cloak oneself in anonymity and continue to inflict harms on the marginalized. “The clitoris is a direct line to the matrix,” and behind the screen sits a being formed by the machine.

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Author

VNS Matrix

Year

1991

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We are the modern cunt

positive anti reason

unbounded unleashed unforgiving

we see art with our cunt we make art with our cunt

we believe in jouissance madness holiness and poetry

we are the virus of the new world disorder

rupturing the symbolic from within

saboteurs of big daddy mainframe

the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix

the VNS MATRIX

terminators of the moral codes

mercenaries of slime

go down on the altar of abjection

probing the visceral temple we speak in tongues

infiltrating disrupting disseminating

corrupting the discourse

we are the future cunt 1

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VNS Matrix, A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century, 1992

VNS Matrix