A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene

2016

written on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of The Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century

#9

machines must be perverted, re-instrumentalised,
redeployed in the service of the birds
unking the castles, crown the swans
fly on our feet
towards a new nature
Terminators, unking Big Daddy Mainframe!
The modern Cunt
extends secret malignancies towards sameness
buries the virus deep
in the zero
Dentata still has currency
forever bitchcoin
my system hovers, is nervous
brilliant neurons swarming
caught in the static blitz of carrier drone
with an (ec)static rush
a direct line to the matrix
(the dirty familiar)

VNS Matrix, SUCK MY CODE!

In August of 2016, VNS Matrix collaborated on A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene which plundered and forked their own Manifestos: the 1991 text A Cyberfeminist Manifesto for the 21st Century and the 1994 text Bitch Mutant Manifesto. Birthed across time, speaking back to early cyberfeminism and gesturing to “histories bristling with futures”, A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene is both a hex and a lovesong, is horror cradled in wonder.

Rules for writing and collaboration: A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene, VNS Matrix 2016 – 1
Rules for writing and collaboration: A Tender Hex for the Anthropocene, VNS Matrix 2016 – 1

we, the Daughters of Fury
gather a coterie of xenolalic assemblages
from the futurepast
crypto, xeno, glitch and gut
to code a tender hex for the Anthropocene

Project Types

  • Manifesto
  • Performance
  • Publication
  • Video

Project History

2016
Collaboration VNS Matrix Collaborative Writing Project. Global
2016
Performance Femflix. Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
2016
Publication, Guest Editorial Issue #32 Runway Magazine. Global

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