fantasies of fetishism by Amanda Fernbach (2003)

Future!! Not a lot to say about this one, its not, a super important book to the contemporary movement specifically, so there's not a lot of background information I can provide other than that it is somewhat academic because it was published by Rutgers University press. Contemporarily important or not, though, I liked it and therefore used it as research material a lot because it explained most of the complicated Freudian ideas baked into some of this discourse in greater detail than Plant or Haraway did and cited some more academic sources on on the man's work, all while linking fetishism specifically with the sort of cybernetic feminine sexual subjectivity that I was trying to talk about. With the help of this book, I was able to synthesize and incorporate the idea of "transgressive fetishism" as opposed to classical Fredian fetishism, which ended up being an important part of my conclusion when woven together(!) with Plant's ideas.

The Fernbach book also introduced me to the contemporary geekgirl "cyberzine" and the work of a feminist artistic collective called VNS Matrix, who formed the punky, popular, cool-girls-online counterpart to Plant's theorizing. In doing so, I think it's fair to say that it also motivated me to do this topic for my project in the first place. I'm going to be linking directly to the early, web-1.0 imageless-html, much-older-sister-to-this-project geekgirl articles from 1995 and 1996 later on, so you'll immediately see what I mean about rosiex (the founder and editor, who is still online today!) and her collaborators' insanely cool vibe.

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