Vectors: feminist speculations on technologies of subjecthood, objectification and gender in futuristic sex work

矢量：女权主义对未来性工作中主体性、客体化和性别技术的思考

• 批准号: 2627797
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Brighton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2627797
• 关键词: Vectors; feminist; speculations; technologies; subjecthood

My proposed project is a practice-based PhD investigating futuristic sex work, anchored in feminist speculative fiction and contemporary events and debates. I aim to produce a feminist speculative fiction novel and critical dissertation, using sex worker protagonists to dissect spectres haunting our present. Sex work is critically implicated in pivotal social issues: structural violence; the commodification of care; transactional immigration; gig economies; sexual health; race and gender representations; internet regulation; affective labour; and objectification, agency and consent under capitalism. This positioning also makes sex workers a uniquely intersectional yet focused spyglass for peering into the future. The novel and accompanying critical reflection will address localised timely questions, filling a significant cultural and knowledge gap: the absence of a feminist dystopian novel set in the UK and narrated through lived experience and the gazes of diverse sex workers. The PhD addresses issues grounded in our particular context, including phenomena vastly accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic: the move towards a cashless economy and the proliferation of remote work against a background of greater regulation of sexual content on the internet; the increased online presence of the sex workers' rights movement; the (partly successful) efforts to introduce the Nordic Model(criminalisation of the sex industry through targeting clients) to the UK and proposals to follow the US in banning advertising for sex work online; and wider phenomena, including austerity, anti-migrant policies, ecological crisis and Brexit. I will employ the tools of speculative fiction to evaluate critically possible incarnations of these current phenomena through a series of near-future and alternate-reality trajectories, interrogating these possible futures with reference to the body of work I am critiquing, while using a spectrum of feminist theories to analyse my creative processes and practices. As Haraway demonstrates in 'A Cyborg Manifesto', fantastic bodies are wonderful companions for feminist interventions.

我提出的项目是一个以实践为基础的博士研究未来的性工作，在女权主义投机小说和当代事件和辩论锚定。我的目标是创作一部女性主义的思辨小说和批判性的论文，用性工作者的主人公来剖析困扰我们现在的幽灵。性工作与关键的社会问题密切相关：结构性暴力;护理商品化;交易性移民;零工经济;性健康;种族和性别代表;互联网监管;情感劳动;以及资本主义下的客体化，代理和同意。这种定位也使性工作者成为一个独特的交叉但集中的望远镜窥视未来。小说和伴随的批判性反思将解决本地化的及时问题，填补了一个重大的文化和知识空白：缺乏一部以英国为背景的女权主义反乌托邦小说，并通过生活经验和不同性工作者的凝视进行叙述。博士学位解决了基于我们特定背景的问题，包括由Covid-19大流行大大加速的现象：在互联网上对性内容进行更严格监管的背景下，转向无现金经济和远程工作的扩散;性工作者权利运动的在线存在增加;的（部分成功）采用北欧模式的努力（通过针对客户将性行业定为犯罪）向英国提出建议，并建议效仿美国，禁止在网上发布性工作广告;以及更广泛的现象，包括紧缩，反移民政策，生态危机和英国退欧。我将采用投机小说的工具，通过一系列近期和替代现实的轨迹，批判性地评估这些当前现象的可能化身，并参考我正在批评的作品来询问这些可能的未来，同时使用一系列女权主义理论来分析我的创作过程和实践。正如哈拉维在《机器人宣言》中所展示的那样，梦幻般的身体是女权主义干预的绝佳伴侣。