Donna Haraway attempts to create an ambiguous political myth that supports the concepts of materialism, socialism, and feminism. She formulates the analogy of a cyborg by using gender to create a manifesto of the creature’s power. The cyborg that is central to her myth entails a cybernetic being that is a hybrid of an organism and a machine. It is a creature of science fiction as well as a creature of reality. The cyborg is utilized as a metaphor for new technology and political and postmodern identity. This essay provides a succinct evaluation of the primary ideas in Haraway’s article: The Cyborg Manifesto.
The essay came out at the time when the world was experiencing the full force of the feminist movement. Donna said that the women’s experience could be characterized as a cyborg. Just as the creature was on the boundary of social reality and fiction, the female movements struggled over death and life. Their liberation rested on the development of a consciousness of their oppression and imaginative apprehension to deliver possibility (Haraway, 149). The acknowledgment of the agency of the globe makes room for independence.
The cyborg stood for the changing physical and political boundaries that shun what the society considered as natural (Haraway, 151). Different theorists supported the ideology presented by Donna Haraway. For instance, Myra Strober and Carolyn Arnold wrote an article on the integrated circuits of segregated labor. The paper looks at the representation of women in the technology industry and the differentiation of their earnings from those of the men (Strober & Arnold, 139). The authors develop the analogy of the computer that has changed things in the community in ways people would never have imagined. It is in the same spirit that they reinforce Haraway’s criticisms of the binarisms of culture and nature in a technological age.
Works Cited
Haraway, Donna. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century. Socialist Review, 1985.
Strober, Myra and Arnold, Carolyn. Integrated Circuits/Segregated Labor: Women in Computer- Related Occupations and High-tech Industries. Computer Chips and Paper Clips 2 (1987): 136-84.
