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We are all cyborgs: How machines can be a feminist tool | IMS

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Donna Haraway's A Cyborg Manifesto presents the idea that cyborgs are a hybrid of the machine and the organism, and thus able to eliminate differences between genders.

(Illustration by 7iber) We are all cyborgs: How machines can be a feminist tool By Nour Ahmad Upon hearing the word “cyborg”, perhaps the first thing that comes to mind is a fusion of human and machine. Our imagination might even drift to an image of Frankenstein’s monster or a depiction such as Major Mira Killian in the anime Ghost in the Shell. A cyborg is actually just a hybrid — part mechanism, part organism. The cyborg, as a concept, is associated with scientist, innovator and musician Manfred Clynes, who deployed it in his 1960’s article Cyborgs and Space, where he argued for

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