Cyborg manifesto by Alexis, Ramy, and Sean

The author starts the manifesto by describing the cyborg, the cyborg being a future result of our society future. she writes about cyborgs being ether and quintessence - light and clean because they are nothing but signals. In that respect she puts human between animals and cyborgs, where the first is the past and the latter the future. Her feminist topic comes from the dualism between mind/body, animal/machine, etc. Since her cyborg myth transgresses boundaries it is her manifesto to pick up on the cyborg myth and get the "political unity" that will take down the domination of "class, gender"etc. This strongly links onwards with her Marxist approach. Since a Marxist/Socialist approach destroys boundaries of class (amongst other things).She writes about embracing technology as a way to clear up the dualism that is often found within ourselves, be it mind/body or anything else. Technology unites.


In Many ways technology itself is an expression of the capitalist market that created it. how do the poor gain access to technology if you clearly have to pay for it. How does THAT get rid of boundaries that are supposedly "Transgressed"? Technology is, in many ways, an expression capitalist market because of the way it is distributed which works on the capitalist model. in that sense it is an expression of that model. Although the manifesto isn't presented as a feminist piece, we do wonder if the topic of feminist hasn't dried up.


Can technology escape it's goal of homogenization and, instead of making everyone the same, embrace the differences and diversity of everyone and unify them as well without creating a misunderstood class difference of gender or colour, but make them understand those differences - not as superior or inferior, but as simply different?