Donna Haraway, a professor of feminist theory and technoscience. In her article "A Cyborg Manifesto", she embraces the cyborg, and criticizes feminism and identity. Her ideal cyborg would be an unidentifiable "pod", if we may, to get away from the idea of a women. This cyborg would be Haraway and any other woman that would follow her ideologies. She wouldn't have any female qualities, to an extent that she wouldn't even be pregnant.Her concept of the cyborg would basically erase the lines of Human and animal, and human and machine. This means that humans are animals and would be under the same umbrella. The borders of the human and machine/technology would be distroyed as well. These boundaries has already been broken in 2008. Just take a look at the war-amps and medical advancements. We as humans have incorprated machine/technology in the anatomy of man to help us survive. For example, pacemakers, artificial limbs (cybernetic limbs) and just the ordinary hearing aid.
As a group we came to the conclusion that we as humans shouldn't reject boundaries between humans and machines and reject boundaries within the human race, for all to prosper. Now a days we as humans need machines/technology to survive. Like in the example above within the medical realm of things.However, at the same time, we shouldn't relinquish our personal identity because that is what makes us distinct beings and not all automations that act based on certain "pre-programmed" needs. Can we, as humans, survive by not rejecting boundaries, human and machine?
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