Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing is about the power to survive, not on the basis of original innocence, but on the basis of seizing the tools to mark the world that marked them as other...

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

Irony is about contradictions that do not resolve into larger wholes, even dialectically, about the tension of holding incompatible things together because both or all are necessary and true. Irony is about humour an serious play. It is also a rhetorical strategy and a political method, one I would like to see more honoured within socialist-feminism.

Our machines are disturbingly lively, and we ourselves frighteningly inert.

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

I’d rather be a cyborg than a goddess.

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 manufactured knowledge is a route to a desired form of very objective power.