La strategia del cyborg by Thierry Crouzet

These dualisms, Haraway states, 'have all been systematic to the logics and practices of domination of women, people of color, nature, workers, animals. These traditions in turn allow for the problematic formations of taxonomies (and identifications of the Other) and what Haraway explains as 'antagonistic dualisms' that order Western discourse. Haraway highlights what she sees as the problematic use and justification of historical Western ideologies like patriarchy, colonialism, essentialism, and naturalism (among others). The need for the divide between culture and nature is no longer relevant, and the cyborg emerges from the blending of that boundary. The cyborg is a dualism, as opposed to a dichotomy there is value perceived in the confusion of the borders of bounded categories. Haraway’s cyborgs are a blending of imagination and material reality. Haraway’s use of the cyborg illustrates her conceptualizations of socialism and feminism in the examinations of dichotomies such as nature/culture, mind/body, and idealism/materialism. She introduces the potential of a completely new ontology of hybridization of nature and culture through the cyborg, a combination of machine and organism.

Haraway’s piece is a novel approach to examining the culture-nature divide. Evolution, she claims, has blurred the lines between human and animal 20th-century machines have blurred the lines between natural and artificial and microelectronics and the political invisibility of cyborgs have blurred the lines of physicality. Haraway begins the 'Manifesto' by explaining three boundary breakdowns since the 20th century that have allowed for her hybrid, cyborg myth: those between human and animal, animal-human and machine, and physical and non-physical.

La strategia del cyborg by Thierry Crouzet