A Cyborg Manifesto

In Donna Haraway’s essay, “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century” it is an effort to establish a political point of view on Feminism which an ironic political myth which is authentic to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Her motive is to build a structure that is faithful to feminism and socialism, “To build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism and materialism.”(p.149) Haraway develops her ironic myth by hypothesising with the idea of cyborg. What is cyborg? Haraway intellectualises cyborg as, “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.”(p.149). Based on this we can say that a cyborg is a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction in this postmodern society. Cyborg is a fact of fiction and identity thus a lived experience coinciding with feminism and counts as a women experience hypothesised by Haraway.
Haraway discusses the dual experience or duality of cyborg human experience and its possible outcomes. Cyborg breaches the very fabric of human mind and animals and one might wonder that has society consequently lost sight of the basic realities of human/technological boundary? “The last beachheads of uniqueness have been polluted if not turned into amusement parks--language tool use, social behavior, mental events, nothing really convincingly settles the separation of human and animal” (p.152) This underlines the fact that this interconnection of cyborg and human is a confusion that can create problems in society. Humans that represents themselves as cyborgs are in fact humans. Furthermore, Haraway proves that this makeover is a compressed appearance of both mind and material reality and can create tension in society among humans.
So it begs the question if this is a “creature of fiction” or “creature of reality”? For instance, take the art piece by Orlan “Carnal Art” that is a

Bibliography: Haraway, Donna. "A cyborg manifesto: science, technology, and socialist-feminism in the late twentieth century." Simians, cyborgs and women: the reinvention of nature (1991): 149-181. Stelarc. “From Psycho-Body to Cyber-Systems: Images as Post-human Entities”: 116-123.