Collected pages from the hexagonal conundrum

Man starts all over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.

"The term cyberfeminism has been attributed to the artist group VNS Matrix and theorist Sadie Plant. According to an often reiterated story of genesis, cyberfeminism came to being in Adelaide, Australia, 1991 as the VNS Matrix, a group of four female artists (Josephine Starrs, Francesca di Rimini, Julianne Pierce and Virginia Barratt), “decided to have some fun with art and French feminist theory” (Pierce 1998, 10). The group authored “A cyberfeminist manifesto for the 21st century” inspired by Donna Haraway’s 1985 “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.”  VNS Matrix's projects like All New Gen and Corpusfantastica MOO fund resonance with Sadie Plant who became the best-known theorist of cyberfeminism, at least in Europe. For Plant, VNS Matrix’s often playful projects illustrated the affinities between feminine modes of language and the communicational forms of the Internet. VNS Matrix's slogan “the clitoris is a direct line to the matrix” became the motto for Plant’s (1996a) own cyberfeminist manifesto, “Feminisations: Reflections on Women and Virtual Reality” that outlined a development towards entropy, networks, and self-organizing systems. The narrative of feminisation evolved in the texts published by Plant in 1995-1997, outlining a narrative trajectory of women and networks from prehistory to the era of computing. The broad, metaphorical, and often rather ephemeral narrative ties women and machines together as tools and others of masculine culture and promises complicated and intertwining webs that will eventually overturn the phallogocentric hegemony. According to Plant (1996b, 182), the cyberfeminism surfacing in feminisation “may not be feminism at all” to the degree that feminist activism is, for Plant, outdated and unfitting for the contemporary situation in which patriarchy's tools and machines (women, computers, and media) have grown out of control (173.)"