The Cyborg
Haraway's concept of human-machine hybrid challenging nature-culture boundaries. Cyborg is both reality and fiction—we are all cyborgs (pacemakers, glasses, prosthetics). Cyborg myth offers political possibility beyond gender essentialism. Neither goddess nor robot but hybrid. Challenges origin stories and purity. Embraces partial connection and coalition. Situated knowledge versus totalizing systems. Ironic myth for socialist-feminist politics. Posthuman identity beyond humanist limits.
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