Cyborgs
"Though
both are bound in the spiral dance,
I would rather be a cyborg than a goddess."
Donna J. Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York;Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181. http://www.stanford.edu/dept/HPS/Haraway/CyborgManifesto.html
"The cyborg is resolutely committed to partiality,
irony, intimacy, and perversity. It is oppositional, utopian, and completely without
innocence.... Nature and culture
are reworked; the one can no longer be the resource for appropriation or
incorporation by the other. The relationships for forming wholes from parts,
including those of polarity and hierarchical domination, are at issue in the cyborg
world. Unlike the hopes of Frankenstein's monster, the cyborg does not dream of
community on the model of the organic family, this time without the oedipal
project. The cyborg would not recognize the garden of Eden; it is not made of mud
and cannot dream of returning to dust."
from "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" by Donna Haraway. For complete essay, see URL above.