Feminism, Digital Culture and the Politics of Transmission: Theory, Practice and Cultural Heritage

A substantial, judicious, and highly effective mobilisation of key tenets of Stiegler's work pertaining to memory, technology, and cultural transmission. Withers develops a cogent political reformulation of questions of memory, heritage, and archival matters of preservation and access in the digital age in this book project. Her use of Stiegler is central to this, and indeed represents an important introduction to his philosophical critique of the digital mediated world to an area where his ideas have particular relevance but are under-represented. -- Patrick Crogan, Associate Professor of Digital Cultures, University of the West of England Following in the footsteps of other recent studies on feminism's `already-there', Deborah Withers' focus on the music archives of the WLM provides a vivid and compelling illustration of what this means in practice, as well as extending its theoretical implications through her astute re-imagining of transmission and digitalisation. Highly recommended. -- Lynne Pearce, Chair of Literary Theory, Lancaster University With astute theoretical insight, oral narratives, and personal accounts, Withers reminds us that feminism's archive is a rich "heritage resource" that does more than transmit history-feminism's archive is also the carrier of values, knowledges, cultural forms and practices that are as vital to the past as they are to the present and future. Original and meticulously researched, this book contributes to a growing dialogue on feminist archives and generational politics while also documenting British feminist history in the late twentieth to early twenty-first centuries -- Kate Eichhorn, Associate Professor, The New School

Devises a theoretical framework to think through the politics of transmission within feminism. It draws upon and develops the work of Bernard Stiegler to create a theoretical apparatus that can analyze the politics of transmission within digital culture.