A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction..

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges.

Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?.

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. .….

Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess..

Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together b….

The boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.

By the late twentieth century, our time, a mythic time, we are all chimeras, theorized and fabricated hybrids of machine and organism; in short, we a….

We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of….

Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for u….

The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust..

From this point of view, science - the real game in town - is rhetoric, a series of efforts to persuade relevant social actors that one's manufacture….

Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writin….

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic..

In a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense – a ‘final’ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the ‘West’s’ ….

Technology is not neutral. We're inside of what we make, and it's inside of us. We're living in a world of connections — and it matters which ones ge….

The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code..

It is not just that science and technology are possible means of great human satisfaction, as well as a matrix of complex dominations. Cyborg imagery….

Grammar is politics by other means..

I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess..

Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously..