International Journal of Feminist Technoscience

This paper addresses the self and subjectivity in contemporary digital technology-rich contexts. A mutual shaping perspective is elaborated to understand both processes of gender and ethnicity inscription of technologies on the human subject and his/her gendered and ethnic subscription to technologically mediated cultural, economic, social and symbolic power relations. An interpretative frame is sketched that builds on the performance of gender/ethnicity, actor-network-theory and feminist techno-science. Finally a reading of post-structuralist and post-colonial theories on hypertext is offered. Hypertext, as a figuration, is helpful in mapping out performativity in digital contexts as it may uncover power dissymetries as well as male/masculine, ‘racial’/ethnic and female/feminine specificities that may be left unheard elsewhere.