Sandoval: feminismo ciborg y metodología de los oprimidos

Good evening. In this video, we're going to work on a text by Chela Sandoval, which also appears in this volume, along with other inappropriate texts that we've already discussed, such as the Belgian text. Now, we're going to work on Chela Sandoval's text called "New Science, Feminism, Flavor, and Methodology of the Oppressed." It's a text that

was originally written in 1995, and the question the author poses here is not about how resistance and positive politics develop in this new era, but what forms resistance and positive politics take at the end of the 20th century, which is when she wrote this article. So, what she perceives is that there's a global restructuring that affects

businesses, the economy, consciousness, and knowledge. In the face of this, or within the framework of this global restructuring, how will resistance and positive politics develop? So, the question is what convergent forms of strategy are the subalterns— the marginalized—developing to define effective forms of consciousness and positive practice that would be under the transnationalizing forces

of... In the first world, what are the strategies that subalterns develop within this framework? The workers, the workers of the late 20th century, are very familiar with the pain of the union produced by the machine and the body, precisely because robotic conditions and the machines have imposed forms that have been painful for workers. Therefore, it

is important that what has been called human agency adopt new meanings. Many of these workers are in deskilled sectors, composed of Black Americans, Indigenous people, and immigrants who came to the United States seeking a change of life because life was not good in their countries. They encountered a hierarchical society organized according to