Friday, March 2, 2007

A Cyborg Manifesto

In A Cyborg Manifesto Donna Harraway wrights about the extend and importance of rearrangements, in the global social relations, which is tied to science and technology. She looks at the change we have seen from old hierarchical dominations to what she calls “scary” new networks. i.e.:

Old hierarchical dominations - New networks
Representation Simulation

Reproduction Simulation

Family/Factory Women in the integrated circuit

Sex Genetic engineering

Labour Robotics

Second World War Star Wars

This gives a good insight in Harraways thinking by comparing the old and the describing what the different things are going to become in the future.
Cyborg has a central role in her work. A cyborg is a person that is partly machine, partly human. She looks at the new times with the new technology as a tool to work for feminism.

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