In search of a female technological identity in electronic literature: dancing with the Spanish Domestic Cyborg

Abstract

How many minutes, hours, days are you connected to the Internet while you carry out a research, while you write? Can you imagine having no Internet connection for over two months in the course of your research? Technicians of telephone companies on strike, local Internet congestion, breakdowns are part of our quotidian landscape, together with inequalities among regions, social classes, genders. And when you manage to be connected? What’s the price? What’s the type of connection? What’s the download and upload speed? When one has a high speed connection one forgets about the difficulties of the underlings, but it takes some ingenuity, a lot of patience, and some strategic decisions when one works with less than one megabit of bandwidth. These are our everyday predicaments, but let us not victimize ourselves, since "we became creative when we got disconnected!