Cyborgs and Posthumans: Haraway's "A Manifesto for Cyborgs"

    Haraway’s Manifesto for Cyborgs brings up many interesting points.  Her theory that “there is nothing about being female that naturally binds women together into a unified category” is particularly interesting.  Feminists in the past have tried to seek something to tie them together and unite them in order to fight against a male dominated society.  Women have embraced their femininity or shunned it in the past in an effort to connect with other women.  Haraway’s version of feminism (although somewhat Utopian) is far more practical. Instead of demanding women to form a new stereotype, she asks all people to blend the borders between common ideas.
    This goes beyond just women.  Blacks, Whites, males, females, Chicanas, or whatever people happen to be needs to stop defining us.  This is the only way we will be able to move past the oppression and stereotyping of our society.  
    Another thing that is interesting about Haraway is the following statement: “It is not clear who makes and who is made in the relation between human and machine.”  This concept is intriguing and true especially in our modern day.  Technology has completely revolutionized the way we live, which in turn also reworks our survival needs.  Physical survival of the fittest becomes obsolete and instead those who are able to relate best with technology, not nature, are able to succeed and prosper.  Technology also becomes not only a tool, but an expression of self, and extension of self.  Although we create and enhance technology, we also let it create and define our own personal identity.