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Essay on Philosophy-4
Haraway’s challenging offer of envisioning the cyborg as a saga of biased uniqueness embodies the explore for a code of displacement of "the hierarchical dualisms of naturalized identities, and thus for the breakdown of the logic of phallogocentrism and of the unity of the Western idealized self. Haraway defines the cyborg as "a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of invented story. Her quarrel is introduced as "an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and covetousness. She claims irreverence and irony as her vantage tools.
Blasphemy invokes the seriousness of the stance she adopts, as well as her distancing from the moral majority without breaking with the idea of community and connectivity, and irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method. Thus, she posits the embracing of difference and partiality as a different perspective on identity, while the "Manifesto" of the title evokes notions of political commitment and avant-garde activism, alongside with historical reverberations of Futurists’ acclamations to the new machine-age.
Haraway’s cyborg is a combination of materiality and mind's eye, delight and accountability, actuality and the utopian hallucination of a world without gender and, maybe, without end. We are all hybrids of machine and organism. The cyborg is our ontology, a creature in a post-gender world with "no origin story in the Western sense. It omits the phase of original unity at the basis of humanist, but also Marxist and psychoanalytic discourses.
Cyborgs are technological constructs and thus deny the logic of reproduction; they rather mock the "masculinist reproductive dream. They have no memory of a primary state of innocence...............
