CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/10/2023

Hot book alert! 'Cyberfeminism Index' is out now from Mindy Seu and Inventory Press

Featured spreads are from Cyberfeminism Index, Inventory Press’s hot new 608-page compendium of more than 1,000 short entries of radical techno-critical activism by hackers, scholars, artists and activists of all races, religions and sexual orientations, edited by Mindy Seu. She writes, “As of this printing, the Cyberfeminism Index traces three decades of global cyberfeminism. But, like cyberfeminism itself—permeable, malleable, and anti-canonical—the index is still in progress. More than a historical overview, this publication was initiated by and is being released into a specific context, one in which platform oligopolies reign supreme, surveillance capitalism commodifies us, and techno-dystopia looms. Its existence reflects that reality. The book is also imperfect: the version printed here is messy, with blindspots and selected truths. Despite my collaborators’ and my attempted thoroughness in gathering the entries herein, many voices are left unaccounted for. Still, as a compilation of a wide sample of techno-critical works, the Cyberfeminism Index might reveal potential for acts we can take to reclaim cyberspace not as a utopia, but as a space for skepticism, growth and entanglement. Here, multiple histories diverge, juxtaposing and complementing their varying ideologies and motivations, and they will continue to beyond these pages. This is not the index of cyberfeminism, but a document of—and another moment of—its mutation.”