Irina Aristarkhova Publishes "Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices"

Night Sweats: Cyberfeminist Practices, a new book co-authored by Stamps Professor Irina Aristarkhova, brings together artists, writers, scholars, designers, activists, and educatorsto respond to a moment shaped by rapid biotechnological change and global political uncertainty. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of cyberfeminist work by the subRosa art collective, alongside Black, postcolonial, and environmental feminisms, Night Sweats offers a series of thought-provoking, creative, and justice-oriented essays on art and life.

From rethinking ​“terms and conditions” to exploring plant-assisted reproductive technologies and practices of compassionate inquiry, the book imagines alternative ways of living, making, and organizing. 

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 book is out now, and available as a free PDF/EPUB download.