Laboria Cuboniks

Laboria Cuboniks (b. 2014) is a xenofeminist collective, spread across five countries and three continents. She seeks to dismantle gender, destroy ‘the family,’ and do away with nature as a guarantor for inegalitarian political positions. Her name is an anagram of ‘Nicolas Bourbaki’, a pseudonym under which a group of largely French mathematicians worked towards an affirmation of abstraction, generality and rigour in mathematics in the early twentieth century.

Members include Diann Bauer, Katrina Burch, Lucca Fraser, Helen Hester, Amy Ireland, and Patricia Reed.

Publications

• Laboria Cuboniks, "Xenofeminism. A Politics for Alienation", Jun 2015, Log; new ed. as The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation, London: Verso, Sep 2018, 95 pp.
  • Xenofeminismus. Eine Politik für die Entfremdung, trans. Jennifer Sophia Theodor, in dea ex machina, eds. Armen Avanessian and Helen Hester, Berlin: Merve, Jun 2015. (German)
  • Xenofeminismo. Una política por la alienación, trans. Giancarlo Morales Sandoval, Sep 2015. (Spanish)
  • Xenofeminism. O politică pentru alienare, trans. Alina Popa, Nov 2015, IA. (Romanian)
  • Xenofemminismo. Una politica per l'alienazione, trans. Les Bitches, Nov 2016. (Italian)
  • Ксенофеминизм. Политики отчуждения, trans. Lesya Prokopenko (Леся Прокопенко), Nov 2016. (Russian)
  • Xenofeminizmus. Politika odcudzenia, May 2017. (Slovak)
  • "Ksenofeminizem: politika za alienacijo", ŠUM: revija za kritiko sodobne umetnosti 8, Ljubljana, Oct 2017, pp 853-866. [1] (Slovenian)
  • Xenofeminism. En politik för alienation, trans. Mandus Ridefelt and Moa Sjöstrand, Feb 2018. (Swedish)
  • Xénoféminisme. une politique de l'aliénation , trans. Marie-Mathilde Burdeau, n.d. (French)
  • Xenofeminismo. Uma política pela alienação, trans. Inaê Diana Lieksa, n.d. (Portuguese)
  • زنو‌فمینیسم. سیاستی برای بیگانگی لابوریا کوبُنیکس, trans. Sara Peyman (ساره پیمان), n.d. (Persian)
  • Ksenofeministyczny. Ku polityce wyobcowanej, trans. Bogna M. Konior and Aleksandra Paszkowska, n.d. (Polish)
  • Xenofeminisme. En politik for fremmedgørelse, trans. Tobias Linnemann Ewé, n.d. (Danish)
  • 제노페미니즘: 소외를 위한 정치학, trans. Ágrafa Society, Seoul: Mediabus, May 2019, 102 pp. [2] [3] (Korean)
  • "Xenofeminismus: politika odcizení", trans. Václav Janoščík and Lukáš Likavčan, in Mysl v terénu: filosofický realismus v 21. století, eds. Lukáš Likavčan, Václav Janoščík and Jiří Růžička, Prague: VVP AVU & Display, 2018, pp 173-183. (Czech)

• Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, Polity Press, 2018, v+169 pp.
  • Xenofeminismo: tecnologías de género y políticas de reproducción, trans. Hugo Salas, Buenos Aires: Caja Negra, 2018, 142 pp. [4] (Spanish)
  • Xenofemminismo, trans. Clara Ciccioni, Rome: Nero, 2018, 164 pp. (Italian)
  • Xenofeminismus, trans. Jen Theodor, Leipzig: Merve, 2020, 150 pp. [5] (German)

• Laboria Cuboniks, The Xenofeminist Manifesto: A Politics for Alienation, London: Verso, Sep 2018, 95 pp.

Presentations

• at The Question of Will lecture series, A4 Zero Space, Bratislava, 28 Jan 2017.

Interviews

• Armen Avanessian, Suhail Malik, "Laboria Cuboniks in Conversation", DIS Magazine, 23 Jul 2016.
• Cornelia Sollfrank, Rachel Baker, "Revisiting the Future with Laboria Cuboniks. A Conversation", Furtherfield, 27 Jul 2016.
  • "Repensar el futuro con Laboria Cuboniks: Una conversación", in Ciberfeminismo. De VNS Matrix a Laboria Cuboniks, eds. Remedios Zafra and Teresa López-Pellisa, Madrid: Holobionte, 2019. [6] (Spanish)
• Francis Tseng, "Particular Universals", The New Inquiry, 22 Dec 2016. Interview with Helen Hester.
• Hana Janečková, "Budoucnost musí být feministická. Rozhovor s Laboria Cuboniks", A2 20, Prague, 27 Sep 2017. (Czech)
• Václav Janoščík, "Promlouvat z nevhodných míst. Xenofeminismus mezi univerzální a lokální perspektivou, mezi filozofickým a lidovým jazykem", Artalk.cz, 9 Oct 2017. (Czech)
• Robert Barry, "Doing Gender: Helen Hester on Xenofeminism", The Quietus, 31 Mar 2018.
• Ágrafa Society, "Interview with Laboria Cuboniks: New Vectors from Xenofeminism", Seminar 1, Seoul, Apr 2019.
  • "라보리아 큐보닉스 인터뷰: 제노페미니즘의 새로운 경로", Seminar 1, Seoul, Apr 2019. (Korean)

Literature

• Isabel de Sena, "Die glut neu entfachen: einige kritische Anmerkungen zum Xenofeminismus", trans. Andreas Kallfelz, in Die schönen Kriegerinnen. Technofeministische Praxis im 21. Jahrhundert, ed. Cornelia Sollfrank, Vienna: transversal texts, 2018, pp 203-221. (German)
• Sophie Lewis, "Cyborg Sentiments", Red Pepper 223: "Feminist Futures", 27 Mar 2019.
• Annie Goh, "Appropriating the Alien: A Critique of Xenofeminism", Mute, 29 Jul 2019.
• Jules Joanne Gleeson, "Breakthroughs & Bait: on Xenofeminism & Alienation", Mute, 19 Oct 2019.
• Vít Bohal, Elizabeth Kovačeva (eds.), (Xeno)feministická čítanka, Prague: Display, 2022, 204 pp. [7] (Czech)

Links

• http://laboriacuboniks.net
• http://twitter.com/xenofeminism