modestothemouse 's review for:

A Cyborg Manifesto by Donna J. Haraway

5.0

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I often know that I have picked the right book to read when I start to see connections to my current life. So it was unsurprising to me when I stumbled on the pdf version of this book while watch Love, Death, and Robots on Netflix. This short but incredibly dense piece of writing introduces a modern marvel, the cyborg, as a way of critically interpreting modern life, literature, and politics. The cyborg is a partial object, a combination of contradictions, and a promise of movement away from the totalizing myths of Western Culture that place Man (read: white heterosexual men) at the center of progress and enlightenment. The cyborg transforms the world around it by identifying with the multiple intersections and technologies that construct the concepts of Woman and Other. I’m going to have to think more about this, because Haraway is a lot smarter than I am, but I loved it and I can’t wait to read the next book of hers.