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For Mindy Seu, Digital Archiving Isn’t Just a Job—It’s a Lifestyle | Vanity Fair

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The meatspace has been blurring for a while. Since at least 1985, when feminist scholar Donna Haraway’s essay “A Cyborg Manifesto” argued that the boundary between man and machine has never been all that clear, the muddling of our humanity with the technology we’ve created has only gotten more confusing. These days, AI bots pump out art and philosophy, while we optimizable humans spend a not insignificant part of our time serving the bidding of some algorithm somewhere. The hardware on our desks (and in our palms) pretty much function as natural extensions of the squishy wetware running our skulls; in case you haven’t heard, online life is real life. But Haraway made this blurring feel radical, not depressing. Her manifesto has since become an essential text of cyberfeminism, a critical movement that largely arose in the ’90s in opposition to the “big man make big machine” narrative dominating the internet age. Today, that movement finds definition—and documentation—in the designer and

Save this story Save this story The meatspace has been blurring for a while. Since at least 1985, when feminist scholar Donna Haraway ’s essay “A Cyborg Manifesto” argued that the boundary between man and machine has never been all that clear, the muddling of our humanity with the technology we’ve created has only gotten more confusing. These days, AI bots pump out art and philosophy, while we optimizable humans spend a not insignificant part of our time serving the bidding of some algorithm somewhere. The hardware on our desks (and in our palms) pretty much function as natural extensions of t

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