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I went looking for a word to name the Donna Haraways of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, a word inclusive of cyberfeminists and transhumanists, a word that captures the theft of cyborg identity, and mocks the thieves a bit. I call them tryborgs. They have tried to be
Quotes
They like us best with bionic arms and legs. They like us deaf with hearing aids, though they prefer cochlear implants. It would be an affront to ask the hearing to learn sign language. Instead they wish for us to lose our language, abandon our culture and consider ourselves cured.
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Disabled women, Deaf women and neurodivergent women are never mentioned in the ‘Cyborg Manifesto’, which is strange, because the manifesto is full of appellations that have been, historically, applied to us (such as ‘monster’ and ‘creature’).2 Haraway does gesture briefly toward the 1969 novel The Ship Who Sang by
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Hello, any chance you have a moment to answer a few questions? 1. Why are you selling this leg/arm? 2. Have you decided to go with Ossur? Or something else? 3. It seems like a very fair price. How did you arrive at the price? 4. What has been
Thoughts
Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters. Single vision is the vision of the Mask, the emissary believing it is the master. A Cyborg Manifesto | The Anarchist Library
Thoughts
Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile—a matter of immense human pain in Detroit and Singapore. Our best machines are now predictive text
Thoughts
Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert. Sitting motionless and staring slack-jawed at a piece of glass showing a non-stop stream of videos until you catch your reflection and meet your own eyes. A Cyborg Manifesto | The Anarchist Library
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Within this framework, teaching modern Christian creationism should be fought as a form of child abuse. A Cyborg Manifesto | The Anarchist Library