Emma Cooke                                                                                     about 150 words

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INTD 105-19 Science Writing

The Cyborg Manifesto

               Donna Haraway’s essay “The Cyborg Manifesto” is a new look on feminism. She draws attention to the idea that a world without gender would be superior to a world with equality between genders. In her essay she also focuses on her belief that the boundaries between the human and animal worlds as well as those that separate living organisms and machines are breaking. Her essay uses the idea of a cyborg society as a metaphor for this genderless and boundary-less society she envisions. However, there are moments within Dr. Haraway’s essay in which she contradicts herself and makes the cyborg society she has envisioned seem less appealing.

“The Cyborg Manifesto” can be connected back to Sturges Hall because the ivy which grows up its walls is a symbol of the blurred boundary between the human and natural worlds, a boundary which Dr. Haraway believes should be broken completely.