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Beyond the Myth of Woman: The Becoming-Transfeminist of (Post-)Marxism

This essay is situated at the intersection of two trajectories of critical thought: feminism and post-workerism. In the displacements brought about by feminism, it seeks to grasp the need to rethink the categories of the critique of political economy. The feminism to which I am referring here is essentially that which reconfigured itself following its confrontation with the homosexual and post-colonial movements—a feminism that I will call transfeminism, using a term borrowed from Beatriz Preciado—that is, a feminism that is a thinking of and a political experimenting with multiplicity. I am joining the other trajectory, postworkerism, essentially at the level of the developments that have resulted from the contributions of Maurizio Lazzarato, Christian Marazzi, Yann Moulier Boutang, Antonio Negri and Carlo Vercellone over the past dozen years—their effort to rethink labor, social cooperation, the wage and income today.

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Cambiar el imaginario de los cuerpos

La campaña del Octubre Trans en Barcelona este 2012 arrancó el primer día del mes con la presentación de un calendario fotográfico que va de octubre a octubre, y que muestra desde el humor cuerpos y sexualidades escondidas y rechazadas.

Además de las movilizaciones por la despatologización de la transexualidad previstas para el próximo 20 de octubre en ciudades de todo el mundo (organizada por la Red Internacional Stop Trans Patologización), en Barcelona preparan una manifestación el 27 de octubre (organizada por la Asamblea del Octubre Trans de Barcelona). En esta ciudad, esta asamblea está trabajando de forma colectiva una serie de temas relacionados con las personas trans para plasmarlos en actividades abiertas. “La perspectiva transfemisnista no es sólo una manera de abordar nuestras sexualidades, sino una manera de mirar al mundo, las relaciones políticas, económicas y sociales. Si sólo analizamos la sexualidad nos quedamos cojas, porque toda nuestra lucha está integrada dentro de un sistema específico de dominio”, explica Teo, activista trans e integrante de la asamblea.

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El Gobierno de Nadie (una pesadilla)

A diario suceden mil cosas, pero ¿cómo descifrar cuáles son señales de las transformaciones que vienen? ¿Cuáles son huellas o ecos del pasado, y cuáles anuncian tendencias sociales decisivas? ¿Cómo saber cuándo hemos traspasado un umbral histórico? Me lo he preguntado estos días pensando sobre los “gobiernos técnicos” que se han impuesto en Grecia e Italia. Los veo como signos de muy mal agüero, fórmulas en experimentación que podrían luego reproducirse, rápido. Prototipos…

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Paolo Virno in English

Virno is best known as a post-operaist, an activist and theorist of immaterial labour, the kind of work that characterizes of post-Fordist society. The best introduction to Virno’s post-operaism is his “Virtuosity and Revolution” from ARTicles (2004).

Many of these links here are from the excellent Generation Online site, moderated by Arianna Bove and Erik Empson.

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Towards Planetary Decolonial Feminisms

The title of this dossier honors the social activism and political philosophy of the coalitional project of decolonial feminisms. While those involved in this conversation have for the most part been located in geographical spaces regularly referred to as the United States and Latin America (particularly Bolivia and Mexico), the central question that motivates our solidarity—what does it mean, as Laura Pérez writes in her essay here, “to engage in decolonizing coalitions that take feminist queer of color critical thought seriously as central to the work of decolonization?”—is one that is necessarily posed between and beyond these reified time-spaces. The contributions to feminist thinking made in this dossier by scholar-activists working in and across the contexts of Bolivia, the United States, Korea, Japan, India, and France can perhaps best be understood as moving between the “post” and the “de” colonial; beyond the reification of our globe toward a version of what Gayatri Spivak has named planetarity.1