“I’d rather be a cyborg than a Godess”
Our best machines are made of sunshine; they are all light and clean because they are nothing but signals, electromagnetic waves, a section of a spectrum, and these machines are eminently portable, mobile…Cyborgs are ether, quintessence.
Donna Haraway (1991) Cyborg Manifesto
In Simians, Cyborgs and Women (1991) Donna Haraway resurrects the image of the cyborg as a liberator. At the time, many feminists argued for what was called “Mother Earth Feminism,” believing that a return to nature, a move away from modern societies, would elevate women’s power and status. Prof. Haraways countered that biological differences, discomfort, the criticality of birth-control technology, and the long history of patriarchy ought urge women to look forward, particularly to a future where cyborg technology eliminates possibly repressive biological differences, so that women could compete in all spaces, the military, the construction yard, the home and beyond. For Haraway saw that the cyborg is an opportunity for tubo-charging liberation. They are the means for giving us all perfect plasticity.