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A Cyborg Manifesto = a new political myth (based on socialist-feminism) =a new epistemology confronting race, gender, class =a revolutionary standpoint in response to an emerging system of world order, movement from an organic, industrial society to a polymorphous, information system Donna Haraway: ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ What is a ‘cyborg’? What questions did this article raise? What are this readings great strengths? What are this readings greatest vulnerabilities? Where could the reading have gone further? Your own questions on the readings. Bodies + Machines Cyborg, as used for example by Donna Haraway (1991) and Adele Clarke (1998), means the intermingling of people, things (including information technologies), representations, and politics in a way that challenges both the romance of essentialism and the hype about what is technologically possible. It acknowledges the interdependence of people and things, and it shows just how blurry the boundaries between them have become. (Bowker Star, 1999) Does ideology of technology which promises to liberate the body from its constraints correspond to reality in which we live, or does it only reproduce the existing patterns of power and authority? Cyborg As the information systems of the world expand and flow into each other, and more people use them for more different things, it becomes harder to hold to pure or universal ideas about representation or information, about identity Representations of monsters / hybrids are a reflection of that experience of (ruptured) identity (imagined cyborgs in art and fiction, popular culture) Real cyborgs (technologies of health, beauty ...) Cyborg Picture of possible unity Framework is rearrangement of social relations related to science technology Current movement from organic, industrial society to a polymorphous, information society Analyses of Cyborg AAA annual meetings: cyborg anthropology sessions (mid-1990s+) Cyborg Handbook (Gray 1995) The Cyborg Mani