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Cyborg or Goddess?

Donna Haraway:. Cyborg or Goddess?. A Presentation By: Jay M. Gipson-King & Katheryn Wright Gender, Authority, and the Politics of Representation in Science & Art July 20, 2004. Edited By: Dr. Picart Associate Professor of English Courtesy Associate Professor of Law. Class Aims.

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Cyborg or Goddess?

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  1. Donna Haraway: Cyborgor Goddess? A Presentation By: Jay M. Gipson-King & Katheryn Wright Gender, Authority, and the Politics of Representation in Science & Art July 20, 2004 Edited By: Dr. Picart Associate Professor of English Courtesy Associate Professor of Law

  2. Class Aims • Explain Haraway’s unique definition of “cyborg,” especially as it applies as a social metaphor. • Identify the pitfalls of our traditional categories of difference and emphasize the importance of embracing our ‘fractured identities.’ • Understand the ‘informatics of domination.’ • Illustrate what a ‘homework economy’ is and its potential dangers. • Integrate Haraway’s cyborg mythology with modern feminism.

  3. Informatics of Domination • What would the politics that embraces fractured identities and complex networks of connections look like?

  4. Informatics of domination…a little game • What terms in the blank replace the old dichotomies found in traditional hierarchical systems… • For example… • When I say representation, you say simulation! • Heat becomes ______. • Reproduction changes to _______. • Biological determinism becomes _______. • Racial chain of being transforms into ________. • Public/private to _________. • Nature/ culture becomes _________. • Sex changes to _________. • Mind becomes ____________. • White capitalist patriarchy transforms into ______.

  5. Cyborg orGoddess? • What is Haraway’s overall definition of the term, “cyborg”? • What are the connotations of the term, “a goddess”? • What are the connotations of the term, “the Goddess”? • What, then, is Haraway’s choice?

  6. Discussion Questions • Which would you rather be, a cyborg or a goddess? • Do you think Haraway’s call for cyborg imagery works on a practical level, or is it merely a “beautiful idea”? • How does Haraway critique other forms of feminism?

  7. Discussion questions • In light of our readings in hooks and Schiebinger, how does Haraway handle the issue of race? Can cyborg imagery apply to groups other than white, middle-class women? • Do gender-bending characters like Hedwig in Hedwig and the Angry Inch or Rocky from The Rocky Horror Picture Show relate to Haraway’s cyborg? • Where does art fit into this analysis? What role does it play in the constitution of the cyborg, or does it?

  8. References • Haraway, Donna. “A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century,” Simians, Cyborgs, Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991). 149-182. • Moore, Michael. Bowling for Columbine. (Dog Eat Dog Films, 2002). • Senft, Theresa M. "Reading Notes on Donna Haraway's 'Cyborg Manifesto.'" 21 Dec. 01.Viewed 17 July 2004. <http://www.echonyc.com/~janedoe/writing/manifesto.html> • Schlöndorff, Volker. The Handmaid’s Tale. Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Aidan Quinn, Robert Duvall. (Bioskop Films/ MGM, 1990).

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