Books

Donna J Haraway

A Cyborg Manifesto

“A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism. A creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction.”

The cyborg can break down classification based on dualism – man/woman, self/other, culture/nature, civilized/primitive, right/wrong.

Haraway explains that these dualisms are in competition with one another, creating paradoxical relations of domination (especially between the One and the Other). To challenge essentialism and build new identities beyond binary thinking.

LINK TO RESEARCH:

http://ojs.ub.gu.se/ojs/index.php/tfl/article/viewFile/2962/2544

Far from the Tree by Andrew SolomonAndrew Solomon

Vertical Identities and Horizontal Identities