The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation

By Laboria Cuboniks

A pocket color manifesto for a new futuristic feminism

Injustice should not simply be accepted as “the way things are.” This is the starting point for The Xenofeminist Manifesto, a radical attempt to articulate a feminism fit for the twenty-first century.

Unafraid of exploring the potentials of technology, both its tyrannical and emancipatory possibilities, the manifesto seeks to uproot forces of repression that have come to seem inevitable—from the family, to the body, to the idea of gender itself.

If nature is unjust, change nature!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Release date: Oct 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781788731591

Laboria Cuboniks

Laboria Cuboniks (b. 2014) is a polymorphous xenofeminist collective. As an anagram of the "Nicolas Bourbaki" group of mathematicians, Cuboniks also advances an affirmation of abstraction as an episto- political necessity for 21st century claims on equality. Espousing reason and vigorous anti-naturalism, she seeks to dismantle gender implicitly. Cuboniks is a multi-taloned, tetra-headed creature uncomfortably navigating the fields of art, design, architecture, archeology, philosophy, techno-feminism, sexuality studies, digital music, translation, writing and regular experiments with the use of evolutionary algorithms in offensive cybersecurity.

Reviews for The Xenofeminist Manifesto

[adaorhell · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

This is strange to say but I wish it was not illustrated. It is like too confusing with all the images to read clearly. But very thought provoking and interesting.

[susanbooks · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

This is a beautiful book as an object: thick paper, bold colors, imaginative and surprising collages. The text, though, is woefully thin, articulating less a manifesto than a vague definition of xenofemism. There are echoes here of Paul Virilio, Wendy Brown, Donna Harraway, Judith Butler but no footnotes, no bibliography, so it seems as if these vague ideas sort of fell into place all at once. It's a playful book, I suppose, and pretty, but ultimately not very useful.