We're living in an age of what Mary Harrington calls “cyborg feminism.” This feminism, Harrington explains, “is a vision of what freedom is that’s inseparable from the technologies that make it possible.”
The author of the recently released book Feminism Against Progress, Harrington argues that by turning women into simulacrums of their real selves, today’s feminism isn’t really as empowering as it likes to think. I sat down with Harrington during her recent trip to Washington to discuss cyborg feminism, why first-wave feminism got memory-holed, and the relationship between transhumanism and the transgender movement.
This perspective underlies the pro-abortion movement, which, according to this logic, makes abortion a necessary prerequisite for a woman’s full personhood. And yet, pro-life principles actually undergirded much of first-wave feminism, but that part of history has been erased by the “winners” of the feminist movement, the ones who valued “freedom” over “care.”
She gave the example of Keeper, a new dating service aimed at producing marriages that describes itself as “driven by AI and relationship science, guided by human care.” There are also a variety of natural family planning apps that serve as a digital alternative to hormonal birth control. And then there’s remote work, which can help families return to the preindustrial standard of the household as its own economy.
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