Tag: Haraway

Jason Gardner, Mike Katzenberger, Bryce Merkt, Chuck Brown Jr.

Dr. Licastro

The first paragraph of our section was Haraway’s introduction to her stance on how we can modify our classifications to better fit everyday society. It is followed with explanations of how woman and cyborgs share many similarities in general, and that the existence of cyborgs should not have a grey line drawn between them and society. The section also addresses how cyborgs have little to any creation of religious or family concepts. However, the concept of these machines are becoming more complex and human-like in several ways, making them very compatible to human society. Haraway’s idea of having double-vision toward these machines became a major topic in our section as well. Having double-vision simply means to be open to the viewing of the cyborg’s existence, instead of just seeing them as all good or all bad.

A Cyborg Manifesto, 291-295

Christian Colon, Rachel Conway, Isadora Fink

Dr. Licastro

5-7 Summary on Haraway’s Thesis

For our section, Haraway speaks on how we should begin to breakdown social constructs that we have based on race, gender, and other views we have on specific areas of society (Haraway, 300). That specific labels restrict our ability to develop unconstrained ideologies for different roles we have in society. Let us a society begin to develop new social relations based on science and technology. Moving away from the classic norms we have on woman. Furthermore, Haraway points out job specific roles that we classify between women and men within our society (Haraway, 304).

A Cyborg Manifesto, 300-307

Mykia Bessicks

Molly Myers

Kyle Rudman

Gender is a socially constructed idea that creates boundaries between men in women. Within the female community, different branches of feminism break women up into subcultures. The creation of subcultures within feminism directly go against the purpose of feminism by “marginalizing” groups based of class, race and sexuality. However, if we break down our “epistemologies”, we will no longer be able to create barriers between these subcultures or people in general (Haraway 297). To break down these views for women in particular, women have to stop viewing themselves as innocent victims but rather a powerful cyborgs.

Tyra Wilson
Lexxiana Zollicoffer
Seth Ava

Haraway talks about how women roles are specified and limited to certain places in social locations. For example in the home their thought of as home makers who do domestic work. In the market women are stereotyped as consumers who shop unnecessarily. In the paid work place it is thought that women don’t do difficult jobs and there is an “intense sexual division” (Haraway 308) when it comes to wages; men are paid more. In schools, men are taught differently than women. The only way to end the way women are placed in society is for everyone to work as a whole to make sure women are seen in unordinary places outside of their stereotype (Haraway 307-310).