[sum] human
In this week, we talk about "human".
Haraway likens "cyborg" to the political identity of "women of color," which "marks out a self-consciously constructed space that cannot affirm the capacity to act on the basis of natural identification, but only on the basis of conscious coalition, of affinity, of political kinship" (ibid). The "Cyborg" though, is grounded in "political-scientific" analysis. This analysis takes up most of the manifesto.
Haraway uses the metaphor of the cyborg to discuss the relationships of science, technology, and "socialist-feminism." She holds that hi-tech culture challenges and breaks down the old dualisms of Western thinking like the mind/body split, Self/Other, male/female, reality/appearance, and truth/illusion. She holds that we are no longer able to think of ourselves in these terms, or even strictly speaking, as biological entities. Instead, we have become cyborgs, mixtures of human and machine, where the biological side and the mechanical/electrical side become so inextricably entwined that they can't be split.
A Cyborg Manifesto is the video uses footage from Masamune Shirow's "Ghost in the Shell" to interpret Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto".
The anime, like the manifesto, denies Cartesian dualism, as well as many other dualisms. Ghost in the Shell was used by Gilbert Ryle in an essay mocking the mind-body distinction.
The music is my own mix using a few tracks from Dieselboy's album "Human Resource" and "Dungeon Master's Guide".
Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000).
A cute cartoon dog sits in front of a computer, gazing at the monitor and typing away busily. The cartoon's caption jubilantly proclaims, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!" This image resonates with particular intensity for those members of a rapidly expanding subculture which congregates within the consensual hallucination defined as cyberspace.
My think of this subject is cyborgs are most often defined based on their physical characteristics. They are part cybernetic and part organism. Arguments for the current existence of many cyborgs are based on looking at physical prosthetic that people use. In science, humans are also defined by their physical features. Humans are a species of mammal, biped Homo sapiens with enlarged fore-brains. But as the movies show, what the audience comes to consider human does not necessarily correlate with the character's birth by another human.
Haraway likens "cyborg" to the political identity of "women of color," which "marks out a self-consciously constructed space that cannot affirm the capacity to act on the basis of natural identification, but only on the basis of conscious coalition, of affinity, of political kinship" (ibid). The "Cyborg" though, is grounded in "political-scientific" analysis. This analysis takes up most of the manifesto.
Haraway uses the metaphor of the cyborg to discuss the relationships of science, technology, and "socialist-feminism." She holds that hi-tech culture challenges and breaks down the old dualisms of Western thinking like the mind/body split, Self/Other, male/female, reality/appearance, and truth/illusion. She holds that we are no longer able to think of ourselves in these terms, or even strictly speaking, as biological entities. Instead, we have become cyborgs, mixtures of human and machine, where the biological side and the mechanical/electrical side become so inextricably entwined that they can't be split.
A Cyborg Manifesto is the video uses footage from Masamune Shirow's "Ghost in the Shell" to interpret Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto".
The anime, like the manifesto, denies Cartesian dualism, as well as many other dualisms. Ghost in the Shell was used by Gilbert Ryle in an essay mocking the mind-body distinction.
The music is my own mix using a few tracks from Dieselboy's album "Human Resource" and "Dungeon Master's Guide".
Lisa Nakamura is Assistant Professor of Communication Arts and Visual Culture Studies at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. She is the author of Cybertypes: Race, Ethnicity, and Identity on the Internet (Routledge, 2002) and co-editor of Race in Cyberspace (Routledge, 2000).
A cute cartoon dog sits in front of a computer, gazing at the monitor and typing away busily. The cartoon's caption jubilantly proclaims, "On the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog!" This image resonates with particular intensity for those members of a rapidly expanding subculture which congregates within the consensual hallucination defined as cyberspace.
My think of this subject is cyborgs are most often defined based on their physical characteristics. They are part cybernetic and part organism. Arguments for the current existence of many cyborgs are based on looking at physical prosthetic that people use. In science, humans are also defined by their physical features. Humans are a species of mammal, biped Homo sapiens with enlarged fore-brains. But as the movies show, what the audience comes to consider human does not necessarily correlate with the character's birth by another human.
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