Patrick Jones                                                              Approximately 150 Words

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INTD 105-19: Science Writing

“The Cyborg Manifesto” Summary
By Patrick Jones

In Donna Haraway’s “The Cyborg Manifesto”, she uses a cyborg as a symbol of the broken boundaries between the natural and artificial worlds and then discusses the use of gender and race as an identifier.
In her piece, Haraway uses the cyborg to discuss three different broken boundaries. Firstly she describes the boundary between animals and humans, that has been broken as animals rights activism has increased over the last few decades. The second and third boundaries are between organisms and technology and the physical and non-physical worlds, which have both been broken by the increase in technological use in everyday life. Haraway then precedes to discuss how humans use gender and race to divide society instead of working to create unity.
It appears Haraway and I have different views on the division between worlds. When I saw the concrete curb behind Milne library I saw a clear division between the artificial and natural worlds while Haraway sees a more faded division that is continuing to disappear.