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Circuit hack
Diana Franco Eguren 2024ko martxoaren 13a

On 8 March I read various news and opinions. Our society is working hard on the road to equality, and although it is a struggle publicly accepted by feminism on the road to equality, as it descends into social microcosm, there are still those who do not understand the need for feminism to achieve equality.

From feminism we have many forms of expression to transform our world, such as the global conceptions that we have in this society. Within this diversity, there are people who understand equality only linked to equal opportunities in the productive world: the same work option, the same wage, the same decision-making power in the productive world. Along that road, I really like a quote from Mary Beard: “It’s very difficult for women to enter a structure coded for men, you have to change the structure.” That's why many feminist women and men are working so that more women can walk in science and technology or create investment funds for female entrepreneurs.

But the sexual division of the work we do in industrialization, productive and reproductive work, cannot be solved by integrating women exclusively into productive work. Care must be given a good response. We have to work on the idea of equality in care. In this elaboration, some see as a solution turning surveillance into a business. And in this evolution, in order to increase the profitability of the surveillance business, they intend to automate surveillance through different technologies.

The existence of certain care services has many benefits, but the total distancing of people from care causes social damage. Because care is not just work, care is a relationship, and relationships based on cooperation have turned us into a relationship (Protpotkin). So I'm suspicious of technologies related to care. Before surveillance becomes a closed circuit, men and women still have the opportunity to hack it.