Haraway's "Cyborg Manifesto"

nuggy. Its so interesting. Cos before you know it, conversations like these are going to be mainstreamed with the arrival of the Bicentennial man. lol. where would they fit in... its wierd

It's hard to interpret these concepts. You were brave! Thanks for sharing.

Prepare to assume.....
CORTEX COMMAND!!!!!!!!!

Great....its so difficult to grasp
you know we dont really have a concept of all this - so its difficult to accept
as it is difficult to love an intersex person
we have to know
what is s-he? a man a woman what
as what can i love you
what shall i be
but as soon you start this question- you already have crossed the border...
good- bad
do - do not
value- de value
man - machine

this is isis, isn't it?

I think that there is an easy mistranslation that can be made reading 'Cyborg Manifesto'.
The cyborg is not a teleological singularity. It is a way to examine human interaction with technology not as tools but as actors that shape our lives.

Harraway is being extremely playful, interested in 'fruitful couplings' - the twist on Marx is a jest more than a revisitation.

And that is the problem with post-humanism, adherents will consider themselves a vanguard - 'a next step'. To what?

LOVE the music, but errrm dya think we can talk in English instead of postpostmodernlish?

Are you saying you dont mind being plugged into the maan's machine?

rather than the violence perpetrated by our bi-polar gender system, we would invite the soft static wash of a genderless system, preferring the constant penetration of the surgical knife and silicon chips. A useful fictional tool perhaps, but in application, who would create or own such technology? To whom does it belong, the creator or the user? The human body, springing from the earth, is sufficient, and to invite external means of control and surveillance is an injustice.

to rich02468: (hyper-)reality check, dude: the Internet is already an extension of your body. you don't need the posthumanists having to have to explain it to ya, just brush off old MacLuan's books.

Thanks so much for the video!
I finally feel that i have a better grip on it all!