The word Cyberfeminism originates from the discourse of academic media hype and advertisement. As this term is like a
slap in the face of serious intellectual and political work, a destruction is necessary, which will provoke a fresh new start.
And there it gets very serious again under different circumstances: The challenge to ask yourself, how a new feminism
could formulate itself,

SINCE WHEN DOES CYBERFEMINISM EXIST?

Historically the term has been created in 1992 by Sadie Plant and VNS Matrix, without knowing from each other. But ac-
tually Cyberfeminism exists since women and zeros and ones exist. Difficult to say. We are still doing historic research. As
much as this: Ada Countess of Lovelace has not been the first. While tracing our roots we realise that they are a fascinat-
ing monstrosity of a far reaching and widely extended net-structure. There are signs which point out Arachne to be the first
Cyberfeminist, though without doubt was she the second. Since feminists realised that new technologies change their
ways of sleeping, loving, fucking, eating, walking, talking and... Cyberfeminism emerged from high developed countries,
where accessibility to high-end technology is quite easy and where the experience of body and mind altering influences of
the used technologies is part of the everyday-life. In other words: Cyberfeminism is born in the heart of the privileged
worlds and therefore actually it is one of its main issues to question these so-called “privileges”.

WHAT DOES CYBERFEMINISM HAVE TO DO WITH FEMINISM?

The “feminism* in Cyberfeminism is obvious, it cannot be overlooked. And that's as it should be. Feminism's heritage is our
life-blood, but its institutionalisation in public life and in the academies makes it inaccessible to most women today. In ad-
dition, the mass women's movement of former years has been fragmented into a bewildering variety of feminismS.
Identifying oneself as a woman is no longer enough to serve as a productive connecting link. Cyberfeminism is looking for
new strategies for political action.

Cyberfeminists do not longer ignore the influence of new technologies in the lifes of women, children and men all over the
world, but they try to develop critical and joyful *technologies* of female survival. Cyberfeminists learned a lot through the
criticism of postcolonial women and women of colour, and they are very aware of the fact that at the moment their issues,
contents and strategies of Cyberfeminism are due to the “privileged” new global work division they live in.

WHAT IS THE CYBERFEMINIST’ ATTITUDE TOWARDS TECHNOLOGY?

The new technologies have provided a powerful new imperative for the feminist discussion. On the one hand new tech-
nologies provoke a discussion, because they are historically male dominated, but on the other hand, they also contain new
means and methods of fundamentally questioning received role models and power structures, of deconstructing concepts
of subjectivity--as feminist theory has demanded already long before the raise of digital media. There is no attitude in
Cyberfeminism. Cyberfeminists do not come together to share attitudes, but come together with the drive for realising the
new medium and its overwhelming scientific, artistic and social consequences. There is nothing like THE Cyberfeminist
attitude. Each Cyberfeminist has got a different one.

DO YOU NEED A COMPUTER TO BE A CYBERFEMINIST?
Not necessarily, but sooner or later every Cyberfeminist will fee! the need to network. You don't have to use a computer,
but you should acknowledge its existence.

WHO ARE INTERESTING CYBERFEMINSTS?

Every Cyberfeminist is interesting

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