Occupation: Professor Birth: September 6, 1944
Late twentieth-century machines have made thoroughly ambiguous the difference between natural and artificial, mind and body, self-developing and exte….
Though both are bound in the spiral dance, I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess..
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 boundary between science fiction and social reality is an optical illusion.
We have all been injured, profoundly. We require regeneration, not rebirth, and the possibilities for our reconstitution include the utopian dream of….
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….
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….
Blasphemy has always seemed to require taking things very seriously..
The cyborg is a kind of disassembled and reassembled, postmodern collective and personal self. This is the self feminists must code..
Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. .….
Why should our bodies end at the skin, or include at best other beings encapsulated by skin?.
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..
Grammar is politics by other means..
Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together b….
The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud and cannot dream of returning to dust..
Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges.
A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction..
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….
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….