Donna Haraway, A Cyborg Manifesto

Donna Haraway: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donna_Haraway

Cyborg: cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality and creature of fiction

>>> p. 16

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities
seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Problem

Gender, race, and class (socially and historically constituted) cannot provide the basis for belief in “essential” unity

>>> p. 33 The cyborg is a kind of disassembledand reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code.

>>> p. 28 … a picture of possible unity, a picture indebted to socialist and feminist principles of design. The frame for my sketch is set by the extent and importance of rearrangements in worldwide social relations tied to science and technology… claims about fundamental
changes in the nature of class, race, and gender… we are living through a movement from an organic, industrial society to a polymorphous, information system—from all work to all play, a deadly game. Simultaneously material and ideological, the dichotomies may be
expressed in the following chart of transitions from the comfortable old hierarchical dominations to the scary new networks
I have called the informatics of domination: (siehe p. 28-30)

>>> p. 33 Communications technologies and biotechnologies are the
crucial tools recrafting our bodies. These tools embody and enforce new social relations for women worldwide.

>>> p. 34 … communications sciences and modern biologies are constructed by a common move—the translation of the
world into a problem of coding, a search for a common language
in which all resistance to instrumental control disappears and
all heterogeneity can be submitted to disassembly, reassembly,
investment, and exchange.

The biggest threat to such power is interruption of communication.

>>> p. 35 A stressed system goes awry; its communication processes break down; it fails to recognize the diference between self and other.