From the 'Neutral' Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology (Spinifex Shorts)

Guerini, Silvia

ISBN 10: 1925950883 / ISBN 13: 9781925950885

Published by Spinifex Press, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: From the 'Neutral' Body to the Posthuman Cyborg: A Critique of Gender Ideology (Spinifex Shorts)
• Publisher: Spinifex Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925950883
• ISBN 13: 9781925950885
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This book is a radical critique of gender ideology and transhuman design. Silvia Guerini shows how the TQ+ rights agenda is being pushed by eugenicist capitalist technocrats at the top of Big Business, Big Philanthropy, Big Tech and Big Pharma companies. She argues that dissociation from our sexed bodies leads to dissociation from reality, with the human body transformed into a permanent construction site besieged by synthetic and artificial interventions. Erasure of the material dimension of bodies and sexual difference is an erasure of women. She explains how fundamental struggles such as the fight against genetic engineering and the fight against artificial reproduction can only advance in conjunction with an opposition to gender ideology. By linking ‘ gender identity’ to the genetic modification of bodies, she warns that humanity itself is at risk of becoming a synthetic life form with synthetic emotions within a virtual, fluid, deconstructed metaverse. Today, being revolutionary means preserving everything that makes us human. It means defending the living world and nature as entities to be respected, not as parts that can be broken down and redesigned in a laboratory world.

About the Author

Silvia Guerini, is a radical ecologist of Resistenze al nanomondo, editor of the newspaper L’ Urlo della Terra and one of the founders of FINAARGIT (International feminist network against all artificial reproduction, gender ideology and transhumanism). In the early 2000s, she was one of the founders of the Coalizione Contro Ogni Nocività (Coalition Against Every Harm) which launched a mobilisation campaign against the entry of GMOs into Europe and later a campaign against nanotechnologies.