Key Words
- Cyborg Politics: the struggle for language and the struggle against perfect communication, against the one code that translates all meaning perfectly” (312).
- Origin stories: narratives that emphasize a common origin from good, an Eden, in which all beings were equal and happy and that humanist principles seek always to return to that idyllic Eden that aid in the construction of an essentialist women’s experience. “With the hard-won recognition of their social and historical constitution, gender, race and class cannot provide the basis for belief in ‘essential’ unity. There is nothing about being ‘female’ that naturally binds women”
- Politics of Domination: Haraway argues that “a politics rooted in claims about fundamental changes in the nature of class, race and gender in an emerging system of world order analogous in its novelty and scope that created by industrial capitalism” is necessary to rearranging relations between science, technology, and society (300). She demonstrates that the old hierarchy of dichotomies is now influx, as the categories within it have evolved and it becomes increasingly difficult to differentiate the natural from the technological.
All italicized words are borrowed from https://heathersprelimnotes.wordpress.com/2014/07/22/haraway-cyborg-manifesto/