Donna Haraway - Cyborg Manifesto

Irony is a great tool for conceptually uniting disparate elements in the event they are relevant and true, and that of which does not resolve, or need to be resolved

Cyborgs are a hybrid of machine and organism, of both reality and fiction

"Social reality is lived social relations, our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction"

The liberation of experience lies in the possibilities of an imagined experience, and what entails the woman's experience in society. The hybrid of machine and organism is both the reality and possible fiction of women's experience. The line between social reality and science fiction is also speculative.

Reality is already replete with cyborgs in industry, medicine and military applications, where replication is divorced from antiquated notions of sexuality. But, the cyborg can be an imaginative resource to redefine our social and bodily realities into the fictions of possibility.

The mesh of machine and organism has already subsumed our reality, and exists as a condensed surface entailing both material reality and imagination. The boundaries between machine and organism have become the sites of confusion and battle, and in this struggle to define the edges can be found the source for liberation, where production, reproduction and imagination are founts to create new salients of resistance. Where the indefinable areas can replace staid institutions of gender, race, class with new structures of anti-progress. "A world without genesis, but also a world without end".

The human/machine hybrid is free of the predictability of gender based determinism derived from an original state of a common unity.