Manifesto for Cyborg
Science, Technology & Social Feminism in the 1980’s
“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.” (Donna Haraway)
Cyborg & organic: women in technology
- If a cyborg is a “… a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.”
- And women’s position to technology is linked with “organic” views (p.92)
- From this: Could we say that feminists are embracing the concepts of “cybernetics”?
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Resources:
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Book (chapter) link: http://www.springerlink.com/content/u531k271421h4940/
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Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway
