Simon Lee                                                                     Approximately  150 Words

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Scientific Writing 105-19

A Cyborg Manifesto 

By Simon Lee

In A Cyborg Manifesto, Donna Haraway introduces three important boundaries that are broken. The first boundary is between man and animals. Haraway says that there is nothing that distinctly separates humans and animals and in fact people don’t even feel there is a need for separation.  This is why Haraway says this boundary has been “thoroughly breached”. The second and third boundaries are between man and machine and the physical and non-physical. In the past a machine “could not achieve man’s dream, only mock it”. However, with all the advances in technology and uses of these items in everyday life, these boundaries have been broken. She then goes on about how although all these different barriers have been overcome yet, humans still use gender and race as boundaries between humans. Haraway’s idea of the boundary between humans and the natural world becoming more and more ambiguous is exactly what the mini essay of The Greek Tree is about.