NEW CYBERFEMINISM IN THE NEW MILLENIUM
Over the last years, cyberfeminism is suffering a welcome moment of crisis. The supposedly liberating potential of the rhizomatic structure of the new media has proven to be an illusion. More so, the Internet seems to enhance the exclusionary effects of late capitalism we are in today.
The mere technology of the new media alone are not gonna do it for us. Thus it seems to me that cyberfeminism, like any other brand of activism, needs more and more to be based in a certain political desire for change. However, it also seems to me that the Internet can be helpful in dramatically changing certain notions about ourselves. It requires a certain type of activism. In order not to let the Internet become a mere collection of homogenised islands, we need also to make alliances other than those based on feminism or femininity.
Feminist new media activism should be based on fragmented and nomadic identities and be structured among non-pejorative differences. And because of the discontinuous nature of this nomadic subjectivity, cyberfeminism needs to be instantaneous, bound to a certain specific moment, and firmly grounded into the social, political and cultural situation.
Cyberfeminism should become an integrated part of both feminist theory and activism today. As feminist moving onto a next generation of activism and theory, not only certain tools of an earlier generation should be used. It is even more important to create alliances among age and a variety of other differences.
Cyberfeminism needs to go mestiza, both trying to become minoritarian and taking the body inherent to political desire into account. I conclude with a saying from an LA street poet not only cyberfeminism but also current feminist theory should take up: 'if you only have one strategy, you don't survive these times'

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