Donna Harroway is a feminist philosopher, who wrote "A Cyborg Manifesto", an essay which uses the metaphor of a cyborg to critique traditional feminist "identity politics". She asks us to imagine a cyborg, neither machine more human, genderless, raceless, and without parents. Completely unrooted in historical social groups and tradition, the cyborg society is able to transcend our common politics of groups advocating for the goals of members which belong to any given identity. The Cyborg has no concrete identity.
So, rather than feminism advocating on behalf of "women", which is a set containing a group of individuals with that identity, it is a loose coalition of people with a certain affinity, since in reality people are never one single identity, particularly as we ourselves become more like cyborgs with technology and virtual lives increasingly become more of our identities. Like the cyborg, no human being is merely one thing such as a "woman", a "worker", or a "black person". We are an amalgamation of multiple things, many of which are socially constructed or even freely chosen by our creative will, and she thought a politics of the future must reflect our "cyborg" nature.
You can find more on the Cyborg Manifesto here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe7U-ANhSOE
So, rather than feminism advocating on behalf of "women", which is a set containing a group of individuals with that identity, it is a loose coalition of people with a certain affinity, since in reality people are never one single identity, particularly as we ourselves become more like cyborgs with technology and virtual lives increasingly become more of our identities. Like the cyborg, no human being is merely one thing such as a "woman", a "worker", or a "black person". We are an amalgamation of multiple things, many of which are socially constructed or even freely chosen by our creative will, and she thought a politics of the future must reflect our "cyborg" nature.
You can find more on the Cyborg Manifesto here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fe7U-ANhSOE
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"The Cyborg Manifesto" and Cyberfeminism
Would you call yourself a cyborg? In this video, we explore key themes in Donna Haraway's controversial contribution to feminist discourse, "A Cyborg Manifesto".
Table of contents:
0:00 - 1:25 Introduction
1:26 - 3:29 Background
3:30 - 5:47 What is a Cyborg?…
Table of contents:
0:00 - 1:25 Introduction
1:26 - 3:29 Background
3:30 - 5:47 What is a Cyborg?…
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Gorgias, entering the scene: "should I dispatch him?"
Protagoras: "No, I want him to live a long life, alone with his intellectual honesty."
Protagoras: "No, I want him to live a long life, alone with his intellectual honesty."
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Kurt Gödel, entering the frame "wait no, wish for a set of axioms that are both complete and consistent, please!
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Avocado is unique among fruit because it is capable of both the greatest good (turning into guacamole) and the greatest evil (going bad before you can turn it into guacamole)
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Avocados are what is known as a "evolutionary anachronism", meaning that they basically should no longer exist. They evolved specifically to coexist with the megafauna in South America, particularly the Giant Sloths (although this view is apparently now controversial). No animals today are large enough to be able to swallow their seeds whole, and distribute them. The Giant Sloths went extinct right as humans settled into South America, most likely due to human influence, so the avocado should have gone extinct too, in a way. But of course the very humans that killed off the sloths ended up cultivating the avocados.
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Avocados are what is known as a "evolutionary anachronism", meaning that they basically should no longer exist. They evolved specifically to coexist with the megafauna in South America, particularly the Giant Sloths (although this view is apparently now controversial, or possibly a straight up myth). No animals today are large enough to be able to swallow their seeds whole, and distribute them. The Giant Sloths went extinct right as humans settled into South America, most likely due to human influence, so the avocado should have gone extinct too, in a way. But of course the very humans that killed off the sloths ended up cultivating the avocados.
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When you think about it we have genetically programmed dogs, by mean sof selective breeding, to love their own enslavement. Good thing they are too dumb to realize how existentially messed up that is, so it's fine.
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Business guy who is way too into Sun Tzu is one of the most obnoxious philosophy guys, just behind pickup artist is way too into Epictetus, and...well pretty much anyone is way too into Nietzsche.
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