Racheal Devine                                                                  about 150 words

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Science Writing INTD 105-19

A Cyborg Manifesto Response

In Donna Haraway’s, “A Cyborg Manifesto”, she develops her ideas about the late twentieth century, calling it “our time, a mythic time” where we are all cyborgs now. The cyborgs are a type of condensed image of our imagination and reality, hybrids of machines and organisms, a creature in the post gender world. She says that in this time, the border between man and animal has been breached completely, the uniqueness gone, as well as the boundary between machines and man, and between the physical and nonphysical. A Lot of her essay has to do with feminism and fractured identities. She believes gender, social, race, and historical constitution cannot be the basis for unity, nothing about being a female binds to “women”. She ends with the point that the history is dependent on the social relations between people and ultimately she says, there isn’t any other time where there is a greater need for political unity.

This can connect back to the vines on the buildings because they act as a barrier between man and nature/animal.