| Marleen S. Barr - 1993 - 252 pages
..."come back to the engineering room again" is uttered by two cyborgs, the beings Donna Haraway describes as "a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and...social reality as well as a creature of fiction." Instead of evoking images of homosexuality, Data's and Geordie's close relationship calls to mind "cyborg... | |
| Mark C. Taylor - 1993 - 302 pages
...Haraway has coined the suggestive term cyborg to de- w scribe this cybernetic organism: X A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. . . . Modern medicine is also full of cyborgs between organism and machine, each conceived as coded... | |
| Steven Seidman - 1994 - 324 pages
...socialist feminism. At the center of my ironic faith, my blasphemy, is the image of the cyborg. A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a worldchanging... | |
| Paul A. Komesaroff - 1995 - 260 pages
...methodologies for the feminist project. This reality is figured for Haraway in her notion of the "cyborg"—a "cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...social reality as well as a creature of fiction." 45 Here we have Haraway's "ironical" figure as a model for both a way of being as individuals and a... | |
| Peter Louis Galison, David J. Stump - 1996 - 584 pages
...at once in feminist theory, science studies, and science fiction. "A cyborg," she argues there, "is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...social reality as well as a creature of fiction." 26 Cyborgs are at once the stuff of paperback robots and also the daily implantations of heart defibrillators,... | |
| Jeffrey Jerome Cohen - 1996 - 331 pages
...in Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York: Routledge, 1991). "A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing... | |
| Thom Kuehls - 1996 - 196 pages
...exceeds the sovereign territorial state model of political space. A CYBORG ECOPOLITICS A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...of social reality as well as a creature of fiction. 60 At the time of Marsh and Nietzsche, machines were "not self-moving, self-designing, autonomous .... | |
| Thom Kuehls - 1996 - 226 pages
...exceeds the sovereign territorial state model of political space. A CYBORG ECOPOLITICS A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.60 At the time of Marsh and Nietzsche, machines were "not self-moving, self-designing, autonomous... | |
| Nina Auerbach - 1995 - 240 pages
...computers and cyborgs, in which authentic transcendence is associated not with nature or bodies, but with "a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...social reality as well as a creature of fiction," even uninfected vampires are debilitated because trapped in outmoded organicism. 14 Originally unnatural,... | |
| Peter C. Van Wyck - 1997 - 208 pages
...theoretical apparatus that thrives on both contingency and contradiction. As Haraway puts it, the cyborg "is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism,...creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction."14 In so far as we, today, inhabit a world of concrete social experiences, and of simulation,... | |
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