Haraway/Cyborg

I have both a love and hate relationship with Haraway’s article as it relates to the good and bad of what it means to be a human and a cyborg. To be honest, I am still not sure I understand exactly what the bigger implications of Haraway’s analytical points of view on being human and animal and not human and human demonination and so on. Haraway draws fascinating arguments concerning the kind of struggles and advantages humans and cyborgs face together. I especially enjoy how Harraway explains the grand notion of how life as a cyborg is to experience utopia. Some of Haraway’s more interesting topics is the heavy feminist insertion. At times, I felt like the author was saying that if the entire female race pushed for a cyborg movement, then there would be equality for women and much of the social issues females struggle would be reconstructed. The great pleasure I took in reading Haraway’s article, is it shockingly made me wonder if the quality of life would be better as a cyborg, even though they don’t have precious human qualities that human beings do. If we are the ones who create cyborgs with our own technology, then why are they so frowned upon? The cyborgs are a reflection of us in many ways. It would be awesome if we could reconstruct the world only for the better with the addition of cyborgs and still be able to incorporate emotion in the programming. The most fascinating of all in Haraway’s article is the mentioning of the video game industry and its almost subliminal aim to prepare people to see through the eyes of a cyborg in many ways, at least that is what how interped it. For example, Haraway states, “ High-Tech gendered imaginations are produced here, imaginations that can contemplate destruction of the planet… paragraph 168. It’s like the cyborg influence is already present in our world. This article had a lot going on and had some important subjects, but I was surprised religion wasn’t talked about more. If science technology and people create cyborgs and God creates us, then does this mean that religion is the main reason why cyborgs are not popular among the masses? Either way, thank God for Haraway and all the others before and after her who have tapped into science and technology and science fiction.