1. Donna Haraway
A Cyborg Manifesto

2. Definition A cybernetic organism: hybrid of machine and organism
Creature of social reality as well as of fiction
An imaginative resource; Utopian
Ontology and politics

3. Challenges --imagining a world without gender
--confusion of boundaries/a border war:
--to biological essentialism and patriarchal control of nature
--to heterosexism
--to polarities of public and private
--no origin story (against historicism)

4. A new political solidarity
Need for connection without vanguard politics, at a time when it is hard to see (invisible workers, hard to see materially and politically; unlike the older working classes)
Affinity: not by blood but by choice
Identities: partial, strategic, contradictory
Affinity, not identity
Oppositional consciousness: from contradictory locations, not about cultural relativisms and pluralisms
“transgressed boundaries, potent fusions and dangerous possibilities”