Donna Haraway ‘Cyborg Manifesto’

1、A Cyborg Manifesto = a new political myth (based on socialist-feminism)=a new epistemology confronting race, gender, class=a revolutionary standpointin response to an emerging system of world order, movement from an organic, industrial society to a polymorphous, information system Donna Haraway: Cyb

2、org 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 + MachinesCyborg, as used for example by Donna Haraway

3、(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 a

4、nd 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 authori

5、ty? 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 t

6、hat 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 so

7、ciety to a polymorphous, information society Analyses of Cyborg AAA annual meetings: cyborg anthropology sessions (mid-1990s+) Cyborg Handbook (Gray 1995) The Cyborg Manifesto (Haraway 1985, 1991) historical images of cyborgs emerge at times of intense change that involve thinking of how humanity is

8、 impacted by technology (Gonzles 1999)CyborgSource: accessed Sept. 25, 2002 courtesy of Sarah Oelker CyborgSource: google search for cyborg accessed Sept. 25, 2002 courtesy of Sarah Oelker Cyborg Representations Grotesque images that involve imagining the relationships bw people and things that are

9、interpenetrated Bad science fiction or crucial notion for understanding technoscience, and how the knowledge (of science and technology) is shaping lived experience Source: google search for cyborg accessed Sept. 25, 2002 courtesy of Sarah Oelker CyborgSource: google search for cyborg accessed Sept.

10、 25, 2002 courtesy of Sarah Oelker CyborgSource: google search for cyborg accessed Sept. 25, 2002 courtesy of Sarah Oelker Cyborg Representations: Gonzles Organic cyborg (monster of multiple species) Mechanical cyborg (techno-human amalgamation) Cyborg consciousness (abstract, amalgamated, hybrid) C

11、yborg body politics? - Gendered cyborg? (social control over womans/mans body) Why are robots not cyborgs?Cyborg Representations The notion of purity based on membership in a single, pristine racial, sexual, or even religious group does not hold in the borderlands (the margins) that is populated by

12、cyborgs Cyborgs are the iconography of modern experience (not natural, but mediated through technology) Why do they reflect a process of rethinking human nature? (use examples from your own search) autonomousautomaton simulacrum pre-industrialindustrial post-industrialCyborg Representations: Gonzles

13、 Cyborg images appear when the current model of a human being does not fit a new paradigm - a hybrid model of existence is required to encompass a new, complex and contradictory lived experience - the cyborg body becomes the historical record of change in human perception in the realm of fantasy How

14、 is the cyborg body reflecting modern experience in each of the cases that you can think of? What is the habitat of each of these beings?“The dichotomies that reflect a shift from the comfortable old hierarchicaldomination to the new networks I call the Informatics of Domination” (Haraway, A Cyborg

15、Manifesto (1991), 161 Representation Eugenics biology Hygiene Microbiology, tuberculosis Organic division of labour Sex Labour Mind Racial chain of beingWhite Capitalist Patriarchy Simulation Population control Stress management Immunology, AIDS Ergonomics /cybernetics of labor Genetic Engineering R

16、obotics Artificial Intelligence Neo-imperialism, United Nations humanismInformatics of DominationInformatics of Domination biotechnology & medicine have the power for liberation but in fact they do not reverse the existing patterns of power & authority if they are further strengthening the c

17、ultural definitions of gender through practice that involves male professional power and its inscription on a womans body through research guided by the commercial interests of biotechnology-industrial complexCyborgs in art and life: fictional cyborgsuHuman with mechanical attributes: (4 look female

18、; 6 look male)LHorlogere (mechanical mistress)Number 18 (from Dragonball Z)RobocopThe Bionic WomanJax (from Mortal Kombat)6 Million Dollar ManMolly and Dixie Flatline (from Neuromancer)Seven of Nine (from Star Trek)uMachine with human attributes: (1 looks female; 4 look male; 1 can change its appear

19、ance)Data (from Star Trek)Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger in Terminator 1 or Terminator 2)Vicky (from Small Wonder)T-1000 (from Terminator 2)Andrew (from Bicentennial Man)D.A.R.Y.LuHuman with magical attributes (magic as another way of controlling nature): (1 male, 1 female)Harry PotterFibi (from

20、Charmed)Cyborgs in art and life: real-life cyborgsExample:The technology involved:Wearable ComputersChips in clothes, cupsKevin WarwickImplant that records nerve impulsesSteve MannElectrodes and laser computer display in eyeArtificial limbsChips and gears to replace lost limbStem Cell ResearchTransplants of nerve cellsRat RobotsRats w/ implants to control movement, feelingCloned livestockCopies of animals, potentially used fo