Humanity?
Today I learned about cyborgs.
Haraway, Donna J. 1991. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The reinvention of nature. New York: Routledge.
For this lesson, I post quotations from the Cyborg Manifesto that I underlined. If you've ever heard the character The Hybrid speak, from the TV series Battlestar Gallactica, this is how Haraway writes. In fact, I'd not be at all surprised to discover that the writers for that TV show used this chapter to build that character's script. Translations to these passages are in-progress.
"Modern medicine is full of cyborgs, of couplings between organism and machine, each conceived as coded devices, in an intimacy and with a power that was not generated in the history of sexuality."
"Modern production seems like a dream of cybord colonization at work, a dream that makes the nightmare of Taylorism seem idyllic."
"Modern war is a cyborg orgy, coded by C3I, command-control-communication-intelligence, and $84 billion item in 1984's US defence budget."
"The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality."
"The cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense...the cyborg skips the step of original unity, of identification with nature...this is its illegitimate promise that might lead to subversion of its teleology as star wars."
"The cyborg defines a technological polis based partly on a revolution of social relations in the oikos, the household."
"I want to see if cyborgs can subvert the apocalypse of returning to nuclear dust in the manic compulsion to name the Enemy."
"The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project."
"The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
Whew.
Haraway, Donna J. 1991. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century. In Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The reinvention of nature. New York: Routledge.
For this lesson, I post quotations from the Cyborg Manifesto that I underlined. If you've ever heard the character The Hybrid speak, from the TV series Battlestar Gallactica, this is how Haraway writes. In fact, I'd not be at all surprised to discover that the writers for that TV show used this chapter to build that character's script. Translations to these passages are in-progress.
"Modern medicine is full of cyborgs, of couplings between organism and machine, each conceived as coded devices, in an intimacy and with a power that was not generated in the history of sexuality."
"Modern production seems like a dream of cybord colonization at work, a dream that makes the nightmare of Taylorism seem idyllic."
"Modern war is a cyborg orgy, coded by C3I, command-control-communication-intelligence, and $84 billion item in 1984's US defence budget."
"The cyborg is a condensed image of both imagination and material reality."
"The cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense...the cyborg skips the step of original unity, of identification with nature...this is its illegitimate promise that might lead to subversion of its teleology as star wars."
"The cyborg defines a technological polis based partly on a revolution of social relations in the oikos, the household."
"I want to see if cyborgs can subvert the apocalypse of returning to nuclear dust in the manic compulsion to name the Enemy."
"The cyborg does not dream of community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal project."
"The cyborg would not recognize the Garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust."
Whew.
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