Hybrid subjectivities and digital violence: pedagogical perspectives on female corporeality in the techno-social ecosystem

Abstract

This contribution offers a pedagogical reflection on the metamorphoses of the female body in the current technosocial ecosystem, a context in which the pervasive presence of digital technologies produces ambivalent configurations of emancipation, vulnerability, and control. The intertwining of corporeality and devices, from algorithmic surveillance systems of bodies to social platforms that shape visibility, desirability, and recognition, redefines the boundaries of identity, forms of relationship, and possibilities for selfdetermination. In this scenario, the female body becomes at once a surface of exposure and a site of resistance, as well as an object of stereotyped narratives. A pedagogical rereading of Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto offers a key to interrogate the new forms of hybrid subjectivity that emerge from the interaction between human and machine. From this perspective, a critical discussion of STEM is emblematic, since gender stereotypes limit girls’ access and opportunities, with women still constituting a minority share of the global workforce and remaining persistently underrepresented in engineering and computer science. Inclusive educational initiatives, grounded in female role models and practical experiences, are essential to counter these structural disparities and to promote a critical, genuinely generative technological pedagogy.