Elyssa Bianca N.

Gibson GELITPH
A53
A Cyborg Manifesto
By: Donna J. Haraway

The author aimed to address the radical feminist movement.

According to the author, Cyborgs are
- a hybrid of machine and organism
- a creature in a post-gender world
- creatures of social reality and fiction
- committed to partiality, irony, intimacy, and perversity
- a creature in a post-gender world
- no origin story in the Western side
The struggle to define and control cyborgs = border war. This only
creates an “optical illusion;” the space between science fiction and today's
fact.
The author pointed out that the traditions of the “Western” science and
politics have always been connected to oppressive mythologies such as:
- Racism
- Male-dominated capitalism
- Exploitation of nature
However, according to the author, the main issue with cyborgs is that
they are illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism. On
the other hand, the author believes that cyborgs are our only hope. “I would
rather be a cyborg than a goddess.” Cyber Manifesto tackles feminism. The
author pointed out that a step to make the world a better place is with the
help of cyborgs. A world with no sex, race, and religion. This is called the
post-gender world. They are created to wipe out the boundaries between
people, animals, and technologies.
According to the reading:
- Cyborg writing = the power to survive, not on the basis of original
innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the
world that marked them as other.
- Cyborg authors = subvert the central myths of origin of Western
culture.
- Cyborg politics = the struggle for language and the struggle
against perfect communication, against the one code that
translates all meaning perfectly, the central dogma of
phallogocentrism.