A Cyborg Manifesto

2016/04/01 by Donna Haraway · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Computer Science · Arts and Humanities · #Posthumanist Ethics and Activism #Digital Media and Philosophy #Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

paper · doi:10.5749/minnesota/9780816650477.003.0001

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Abstract

“The Cyborg Manifesto” rethinks 1980s American socialist feminism in the context of C3I, command-control-communications-intelligence of the electronic battlefield, and of the sciences and natural-social worlds annealed in that cauldron. Cyborgs are specific kinds of worldly entities; they are not classical machine-human hybrids, but rather condensed nodes within the situated historical implosion of organisms, information sciences and digital machines, and human bodies and lives. Refigured for feminist, queer, antiracist, anti-capitalist, and pro-earth sciences and politics, cyborgs announce dangerous but promising possibilities.

Citations

• Revolution in Poetic Language
• Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology*

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• Feminist science and technology studies [wikipedia]

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