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, 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)

• Helen Hester, Xenofeminism, Polity Press, 2018, v+169 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.
• Francis Tseng, "Particular Universals", The New Inquiry, 22 Dec 2016. Interview with Helen Hester.
• 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)

Links

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