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    This document discusses Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg as presented in her influential work "A Cyborg Manifesto". It summarizes that Haraway conceives of cyborgs as socially constructed hybrids of machines and organisms that live in "borderlands" where knowledge is built. She uses the metaphor of the cyborg to argue for taking responsibility in constructing one's consciousness, especially regarding new technologies, and for building connections between humans and machines.

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    Haraway"s A Cyborg Manifesto

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    This document discusses Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg as presented in her influential work "A Cyborg Manifesto". It summarizes that Haraway conceives of cyborgs as socially constructed hybrids of machines and organisms that live in "borderlands" where knowledge is built. She uses the metaphor of the cyborg to argue for taking responsibility in constructing one's consciousness, especially regarding new technologies, and for building connections between humans and machines.

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    Donna Haraway

    A Cyborg Manifesto

    Cyberfeminism

    A Fusion of Machine and Organism

    Intersections
    Nature Culture Gender Science Technology

    Social Construction

    A New Frontier: Haraway calls for responsible bridges between humans and machines (technology)

    Sociotechnical factors along with human interactions affect human associations and the direction that endeavors in knowledge making take.

    How do individuals and groups participate in the construction of their perceived social reality? Social constructionism argues that social phenomena are created, institutionalized, known and made into convention through human habit. Social phenomena include social organization, knowledge, technologies, artifacts, and the characteristic materiality of cultures.

    Cyborgs
    Haraway conceives of cyborgs as realities. Cyborgs are socially constructed hybrids of

    machines and organisms.


    Cyborgs live in borderlands or productive space

    intended for knowledge building.


    Haraway uses the image and myth (or story) of the

    cyborg to argue for the construction of ones consciousness or responsibility, particularly with respect to newer technologies.

    Haraway & Core Concepts


    Borderlands Caring Connections or Isolation Worldliness Boundaries Cyborgs

    The Borderlands
    Productive places where negotiations of

    knowledge building take place


    What does one care about? Ones concerns open up borderlands. Haraway raises the questions:
    What matters personally in biographical terms,

    political terms, and emotionally?


    In other words, What does one care about and

    what does that tell me?

    Borderlands: Caring and Connections


    Haraway points out that:
    Opening borderlands is essential to being open to

    possibilities and worldly.

    Connections arise out of the relationship with what

    one feels is important and personal.

    Worldliness and Isolation


    Everything that one cares about makes one more

    worldly.
    Worldly relates to what one cares about or connects

    to and this connection leads to a multiplicity of other connections and their development.
    If what one cares about, isolates them, the question

    becomes: Is this good for one and, if so, how does one deal with that isolation?

    Boundaries
    Relates to connections

    Everything in the world is linked


    It is crucial to view entities within

    their network of connections in an open, fluid, and indistinct semiotic flow


    Alexander McQueens Cyborg

    Three Critical Breakdowns


    Transgression in the boundary between human and

    animal

    Affirmation of connection between human & other living creatures

    Ambiguity in distinctions among animal-human-machine

    Uncertainty of what one accepts as nature

    Boundary between physical and non-physical is

    imprecise

    Machines and microelectric devices are everywhere and invisible.

    Cyborg: A Conceptual Hybrid


    Creatures simultaneously animal and machine who

    live in ambiguous, crafted Foucaults biopolitics.

    worlds.

    Cyborgs map social and body reality like

    The social and body reality is an imaginative resource, an open field an open text

    Cyborgs are ones ontology: A postmodern,

    socially constructed sense of being

    Partiality and Cyborgs


    Argues for situated, localized knowledge not

    universality provides the conditions for responsible knowledge claims.

    Represents the interdependence of people Machines are aspects of our embodiment as such

    Haraway emphasizes the need for responsible relations with machines.


    The cyborg represents a way out of the labyrinth of

    Western, patriarchal views and its dualism

    Floating Signifiers
    The Cyborg myth is about boundaries, fusions and

    risky possibilities in borderlands.


    It is everything about caring and taking

    responsibility for the relationships such concern creates.


    Cyborgs are transformative they encourage the

    construction of identity in a partial, fragmented and contradictory world.

    The Situated Cyborg


    Social relations of new technologies are

    reformulations of expectations, culture, work, and reproduction for the large scientific and technical work-force.
    Danger lack of control for high-tech repressive

    apparatuses ranging from entertainment to surveillance culture of video games and sci-fi escape.
    Speaks to a critical need for privileged women to

    address scientific-technical discourses and processes in a conscious and responsible way.

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