ABSTRACT
The essay that follows took shape in the course of 1998. While I was working on it and presenting parts of it at different public events, I was also conducting research that served as the basis for three works: a short piece for public radio about a maquiladora worker in Tijuana who had sued her former employer, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. for violation of her civil rights; my video installation, Access Denied ; and finally my play, The Incredible Disappearing Woman . Together these works constitute my critical assessment of the emergent field of cybertheory, its problematic treatment of race, and the limited consideration of globalization and its impact on Latin America. It took me several years to figure out how to enter a discourse that I found so profoundly troubling, and even more time to create artwork that spoke of the issues I have just listed in a manner that was neither simplistically topical nor didactic. Maquiladora sign
Photo: Coco Fusco
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