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The gendered cable manifesto | What we can learn from the sexual intercourses of gendered electric cables | Noam Youngrak Son | D-ACT

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The gendered cable manifesto

What we can learn from the sexual intercourses of gendered electric cables

Author:Noam Youngrak Son

Publisher:D-ACT

  • Paperback
  • English
  • 62 Pages
  • Jul 23, 2020
Gender as a concept is not only applicable to humans. When the idea of gender is applied to the cables, its meaning is reduced into a relationship of insertion. As a non-binary individual and designer, I find this problematic that such way of classifying gender violently erases the existence of everyone that doesn’t neatly fit into those categories. However, instead of insisting on abolishing those terms, I discovered that the idea of gender that we applied to the electric cables functioning in very queer ways that we couldn’t expect. More info on www.d-act.org.
Gender as a concept is not only applicable to humans. When the idea of gender is applied to the cables, its meaning is reduced into a relationship of insertion. As a non-binary individual and designer, I find this problematic that such way of classifying gender violently erases the existence of everyone that doesn’t neatly fit into those categories. However, instead of insisting on abolishing those terms, I discovered that the idea of gender that we applied to the electric cables functioning in very queer ways that we couldn’t expect. More info on www.d-act.org.

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