Alexis Baer                                                                                        about 150 words
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Student, INTD: Writing Science

“The Cyborg Manifesto” Reflection
by Alexis Baer

Writer, Donna Haraway, is a woman who strongly supports, promotes, and defends feminism against numerous inequalities. When the “The Cyborg Manifesto” was created, her main concepts included boundaries between human and animals, the use of technology increasing artificiality, and the physical and non-physical. Haraway explains the “cyborg” to the audience as a political myth that human fault has essentially created due to advances in modern technology. This creature is constantly being used as a metaphor; besides the humankind population and technology, it also incorporates different cultures, emotions, nature, race, gender, and science modification. One of Haraway’s points in the essay involves today’s generation slowly becoming more similar to “chimeras”, this allowed me to realize that humans are becoming conditioned and trained to certain traditions where nothing is or seems to be natural anymore. A few of her arguments can be applied to the objects we have chosen because they represent the boundary between the natural and artificial.