I could appreciate some of her humor, but overall, I did not love her writing. I think it was mainly because there was a focus on feminism toward the end, and her text was taxing. It was difficult to read and process, and when I was finished, I thought it was more an assault on feminism than anything else. It took me awhile to figure out how Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” related to ecocriticism. Cyborg views also allow traditional dualism views to be reconsidered and reconstructed so identity, categories, and relationships are unable to be totally defined in theory. Cyborgs are women who do not have essentialist views, but rather, fluid and evolving views that do not allow them to be victims. Haraway states that cyborgs communicate through writing that isn’t defined as the one single code that interprets all communication.
She discusses women of color and the struggles they endure due to the world defining them, rather being allowed to define themselves. Haraway criticizes feminism as having fallen into traditional dualities and essentialisms that should be rejected for her cyborg concept, which calls for a coding of the world with boundaries that can be permeated with information through communication. She argues against industrial capitalism and the Western culture of dualism/binary opposites that define groups of people based on race, class, or gender. Haraway presents the concept of the cyborg, which represents a hybrid of three boundary breakdowns: human and animal (brought about by evolution and changing human attitudes about the relationship between humans and animals), human and machine (brought about by the advancement of machine technology in the late twentieth century), and physical and non-physical (brought about by microelectronic devices and the political invisibility of cyborgs).
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