Un argumento transcendental para un tecnofeminismo localizado

Abstract

Xenofeminism is a technofeminist action project opposed to any form of local naturalism, whose proposal is based on the idea of an unlimited subjectivity. On the other hand, feminist epistemologies - specifically I refer to Donna Haraway's position - argue that it is necessary to affirm the locality of knowledge in order to avoid the production of sexist science and technologies. In this text I review the assumptions underlying this supposed dichotomy. I argue that the discussion at the heart of the dichotomy revolves around the idea of natural substances or types. According to this debate, assuming a position of localized feminism implies being against any naturalistic argument. To defend this idea I turn to the form of the transcendental argument in the context of F.W.J. Schelling's late philosophy. On the basis of Iain Hamilton Grant's critique of transcendental naturalism I defend the necessity of a localized subjectivity. I claim that it is not necessary to be a biologicist essentialist to assert the need for situated technofeminist thought. Not every critique of situated thought must affirm an unbounded subjectivity. At the end of this text I point toward the possibility of a transcendental argument for the necessity of a situated technofeminism.