1. The question of why many women found Cyberfeminism alienating was raised at the opening session of the Very Cyberfeminist International held in Hamburg, December 2001.

2. Cyberfeminists' deep ambivalence towards feminism was evident in various discussions in the Faces mailing list during 1998 and 1999. See also, Cornelia Sollfrank, "The Truth about Cyberfeminism."

3. Technics of Cyberfeminism <mode=message> edited by Claudia Reiche and Andrea Sick. Bremen: Thealit, Frauen, Kultur, Labor 2002 and Yvonne Volkart, "Connective Identities," Catalogue essay of the Internet and CD-ROM part of the show, Double life. Identity and transformation in contemporary art. Vienna:Generali Foundation 2001. 

4. The work of Ursula Biemann is exceptional in this regard as she addresses issues of labor, globalization and inequality.

5. One of the organizers, explained that the members of Rawa were not invited to participate in the conference because they did not speak English. Public discussion, Opening round table, Very Cyberfeminist International, Hamburg, December 2001. During the lecture it became evident that various members of RAWA spoke both German and English.

6. These conclusions result from public and private discussions held at the last two Cyberfeminist Internationals, more specifically those pertaining to the session "Feminism, Difference and Global Capital" at the Next Cyberfeminist International in Rotterdam in 1999, and the panel discussion "Strategies and tactics for feminist/cyberfeminist collaborations, collective art practice, contestational cultural work, and building networks of solidarity and action," both organized by Faith Wilding. See also, Irina Aristarkhova, "The future is female" in Mute, Issue 23, March 2001.

7. Etienne Balibar, Culture and Identity (working notes) translated by J. Swenson. In The Identity in Question, edited by John Rachman New York: Routledge,1993, 187.-s

8.Ernesto Laclau, "Universalism, Particularism and the Question of Identity" in Rachman, opp cit. 96-97.

9. "Manifesto of the Crossover Summer Camp Project", Nettime and Undercurrents, Thu, 25 Jul 2002.

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