1. DONNA HARAWAY, quot;A CYBORG
MANIFESTO: SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY, AND SOCIALIST-
FEMINISM IN THE LATE
TWENTIETH CENTURY,quot;
in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The
Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge,
1991), pp.149-181.

2. Background
Donna J. Haraway
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Currently a professor and

chair of the History of
Consciousness Program
at the University of
California, Santa
Cruz, United States.
Donna Haraway's cyborg

theory

3. Cyborg Theory
Summary of Argument

Definition
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Some Main ideas
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4. Cyborg Theory
Cyborg theory was

created by Donna
Haraway in order to
criticize traditional
notions.
She uses the metaphor of

a cyborg as it allows one
to move beyond the
limitations of traditional
gender, feminism, and
politics.

5. Defnition and Origins
A cyborg is a cybernetic

organism, a hybrid of
machine and organism
A creature of social reality
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as well as a creature of
fiction.

6. We are all cyborg
“By the late twentieth century, our

time, a mythic time, we are all
chimeras, theorized and
fabricated hybrids of machine and
organism; in short, we are
cyborg.”
The territories of production,

reproduction, and imagination.
Microelectronics mediates the

translations of labour into robotics
and word processing, sex into
genetic engineering and
reproductive technologies, and
mind into artificial intelligence and
decision procedures

7. Change to gender and
production
The cyborg is a creature

in a post-gender world.
A cyborg does not have

any real allegiance to its
creator who it sees as
inessential
All work to all play, a
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deadly game.

8. Informatics of domination

9. Reproduction vs Recrafting
Cyborgs bring the

breakdown of natural
objects like organisms
and families.
Communications

technologies and
biotechnologies are
becoming the crucial
tools recrafting our
bodies.

10. C3i
The fundamentals of this

technology can be
condensed into the
metaphor C3i, command-
control-communication-
intelligence, the military's
symbol for its operations
theory.
Cyborg often thought to

have mostly military
origins.

11. Modern biologies
Translation of the world

into a problem in coding
can be illustrated by
molecular
genetics, ecology, sociobi
ological evolutionary
theory, and
immunobiology.

12. I would rather be a cyborg than a
goddess.
Haraway is a constant

contributor to the
cyberculture that exists
even today.
http://www.youtube.com/w
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atch?v=HyGyJ0aXlbY