Cyborgs are not reverent; they do not re-member the cosmos. They are wary of holism, but needy for connection- they seem to have a natural feel for united front politics, but without the vanguard party. The main trouble with cyborgs, of course, is that they are the illegitimate offspring of militarism and patriarchal capitalism, not to mention state socialism. But illegitimate offspring are often exceedingly unfaithful to their origins.
Donna J. HarawayIn a sense, a cyborg has no origin story in the Western sense โ a โfinalโ irony since the cyborg is also the awful apocalyptic telos of the โWestโsโ escalating dominations of abstract individuation, an ultimate self untied at last from all dependency, a man in space.
Donna J. HarawayFrom 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.
Donna J. Haraway