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

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 can suggest a way out of the maze of dualisms in which we have explained our bodies and our tools to ourselves.

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

Scientific practice is above all a story-telling practice. ... Biology is inherently historical, and its form of discourse is inherently narrative. ... Biology as a way of knowing the world is kin to Romantic literature, with its discourse about organic form and function. Biology is the fiction appropriate to objects called organisms; biology fashions the facts "discovered" about organic beings.

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

Consciousness of exclusion through naming is acute. Identities seem contradictory, partial, and strategic.

Feminist objectivity means quite simply situated knowledges